states in the late 1990s. Internal strife and conflict between nations have nevertheless continued to affect the region’s borders. YUGOSLAVIA Yugoslavia: Divided Regions “We’re all supposed to be Yugoslavs. But scratch one of us‚ and you’ll find a Serb or Croat or something else.” This comment by Croat lawyer provides a clue to the human geography of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia contains twenty- four million. But they are divided among twenty- four ethnic groups and three religions--- Roman Catholicism
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Emir Kusturica is born in Sarajevo in 1954. He was raised in a Muslim family but he prefers to identify himself neither as a Muslim or a Serb. In an interview given to IMDb he states “My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. OK‚ maybe we were Muslim for 250 years‚ but we were Orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs‚ religion cannot change that. We only became Muslims to survive the Turks”. He studied in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in 1978
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a) Georg Simmel describes the “blasé attitude” as being the constant stimulation and loss of stability that can result in a state in which one is no longer capable of reacting to the shock of new stimuli. This leads to the development of a cool and distant way of merely observing without expressing emotion. Adopting a blasé attitude compensates for the mind’s feeling of being overwhelmed‚ and allows the self to begin to build a new urbanized identity. You start to experience the same thing and everything
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such a personality. I would like to concentrate my attention to the West Balkans where Yugoslavia might be an excellent example. It is a former federation of mainly Slavonic states in South- East Europe. The country was formed as the Kingdom of Serbs‚ Croats‚ and Slovenes after the First World War. It comprised Serbia‚ Montenegro‚ and the former South Slavonic provinces of the Austro-Hungarian empire and assumed the name of Yugoslavia in 1929. Its capital was Belgrade. Invaded by the
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depressed”. The newspapers described Princip as a “schoolboy”‚ “a young Serbian patriot”‚ “a mad killer”‚ and an “eighteen-year-old youth”. Princip´s actions were‚ in a way‚ excused by the following: "Gavrilo Princip saw the oppressed position of the Serbs in Austria-Hungary‚ and‚ under the influence of blindness‚ imagined that it was possible to change
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getting bigger as the days are passing by‚ or they’re blending and the people are forgiving? I believe that the war is far behind us‚ it surely will never be forgotten‚ but it has to be forgiven. In my community it already is. We all live together‚ Serbs‚ Bosnians and Croats. We all look the same‚ breathe the same and eat the same. We are all just humans‚ living together in one country‚ creating one beautiful society‚ one unrepeatable perfume. In my circle of friends we all share the same opinion
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National Geographic and CNN: A better look at the world. There is no other more diverse magazine or channel than National Geographic and CNN. For decades National Geographic has captured the world stories and its cultures bringing them to everyone who ever wondered about the world they live in. National Geographic is continuously demonstrating to the people of the world how diverse it really is. When reading or watching National Geographic‚ anyone can now open their mind and expose it
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was most responsible for the outbreak of war. Since 1900‚ there was tension in Europe. There were wars and other events that caused crisis in countries. But the spark of the world war lit only after the 28 June 1914‚ when Gavrilo Princip‚ a Bosnian Serb‚ shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand‚ the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Serbia became the most powerfully Balkan State‚ and felt confident enough to threaten Austria. The Serbian prime minister said: ‘the first round is won; now for the second
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“Ederlezi” is an amalgamate of national representation and appropriation in an age dominated by global cultures‚ since it firstly became well known in Serb – Croatian language and it has been rearranged in 2006 and presented by Rozsa Magdolna in Eurovision in Hungarian and Serbian‚ but not in Romani. Stathis Gourgouris in his book “Hypnosis and Critique ( Film Music for the Balkans) presents and analyzes
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The Yugoslavian Conflict Yugoslavia is a country burdened by feuding sides in a war that cannot soon be resolved. The United Nations are attempting to help the situation‚ but until the people of Yugoslavia can come to an agreement continued warfare and heartache is inevitable. The problems in Yugoslavia began because the country is separated into two distinct parts. The north and west parts of the country were once under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire‚ and the south and the
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