Blocs of countries with a (mostly) shared culture? (island, Argentina)
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I don't think so, however this could be the case with those having families in these post-YU countries. I personally feel much more "at home" in Rome or even London than in Belgrade.
i think you say this because serbia and croatias hatred for one another, and you have probally been brought up to think your two countries are different, but i think serbia has more in common with croatia than you would like to admit, and without a doubt more in common than with britain
i think you say this because serbia and croatias hatred for one another, and you have probally been brought up to think your two countries are different, but i think serbia has more in common with croatia than you would like to admit, and without a doubt more in common than with britain
I don't think so, however this could be the case with those having families in these post-YU countries. I personally feel much more "at home" in Rome or even London than in Belgrade.
I don't have any families in ex-Yugoslavian republics,I don't have family nowhere outside Croatia so I don't fit in your conclusion.
i think you say this because serbia and croatias hatred for one another, and you have probally been brought up to think your two countries are different, but i think serbia has more in common with croatia than you would like to admit, and without a doubt more in common than with britain
Note the comparison with London was my personal experience. Call me weird but I consider the places where I feel relaxed and welcome culturally closer to me.
^I think that's because London is a 'world city', plus again, Croats hate Serbs. but the truth is, I can barely tell the difference between Croatian and Serbian culture, the languages are like nearly the same, I'm sure there are differences, but they're not as big as the difference between one of them and a country that doesn't even speak the same family of languages.
Pakistan culturally the same as India? People that look the same, geographically close, historically part of the same Empire, same Hindi-Urdu language - yet they are different cultures, or they are not?
My stance is that a culture is (mainly) shaped up by the dominant religion. Undoubtedly there are cultural similarities between Croats and Serbs and not only cause of the language; we’ve been in the same country for 70 years and during that time separate nation’s cultures were suppressed while Yugoslavism - a kind of superculture - was promoted.
Perhaps a parallel between 3 ex-Yu and 3 Scandinavian nations will clear up my opinion on this issue.
Take Danmark, Sweden and Norway: very similar ethnic background and languages.
Take Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia: very similar ethnic background and languages.
While all countries from both groups have had their share of conflicts, the level of brutality is incomparable. How come? IMO that’s because Danes, Norwegians and Swedes share their culture – same religion. Croats, Serbs, and Bosniaks do not share their culture (to that extent), because they evolved in different often openly conflicted religions – Croats as Catholics, Serbs as Eastern Orthodox and Bosniaks as Muslims.
There is a reason that most unstable regions are those religiously/culturally diverse, places where religions clash, the Balkans, Middle East or the Caucasus.
Countries in south-america are culturally very different. Groups culturally similar:
- Chile , Uruguay, Argentina (Uruguay and Argentina is like the same country in terms of culture)
- Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia
- Colombia, Panama, Venezuela
- Puerto Rico, Cuba
- Mexico and all center american countries
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