On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:57:38PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
I'd suggest that comparing ethnic groups with religious groups is rather like comparing apples to oranges. I'm assuming that you meant to imply either the "expenditures for keeping the MUSLIMS safe from their Christian tormentors". Or, otherwise, "expenditures for keeping the Bosnians and Albanians safe from their SERB tormentors". Both statements are sure to anger a great number of people. The former will undoubtedly anger Christians the world over, while the latter will (and just did) offend Serbs the world over. :)
Albanians are ethnically different from the Serbs.
The ONLY difference between Serbs, Croats, and Bosnian Muslims is religious. They are genetically and linguistically and mostly culturally identical, or rather homogeneous, although these days some weird post-facto nationalists are pretending that there are separate languages and cultures.
oh wow, you're SO wrong. unless 'these days' is pretty much the same as thousand years or so :-)
actually 'yugoslavia' is fairly recent artificial term...
erik
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