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^ I think that this is the real tragedy of the Balkans.
They are still so steeped in 1000 years of hate that none of the tribes can get beyond it and work to forge a real federation of states. I have known people from all areas of the Balkans and they readily admit that they were fed this anger and need for revenge from their mother's milk right on through their childhood and teenage years.
Unlike the post world war two reconciliation of European, American and Japanese peoples, it seems that in some deeply troubled parts of the world.....this kind of reconciliation is always just out of reach.
And again we all live everyday with the consequences and attitudes of the medieval world.
They are still so steeped in 1000 years of hate that none of the tribes can get beyond it and work to forge a real federation of states. I have known people from all areas of the Balkans and they readily admit that they were fed this anger and need for revenge from their mother's milk right on through their childhood and teenage years.
Unlike the post world war two reconciliation of European, American and Japanese peoples, it seems that in some deeply troubled parts of the world.....this kind of reconciliation is always just out of reach.
And again we all live everyday with the consequences and attitudes of the medieval world.











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