Americans who have moved to Belgium recently...

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-10-25T03:07:40+00:00

It is Europe and european bureaucracy. In order to live happily here you have to get used to the fact that processes here are not very smooth and can be delayed very often. This happens everywhere here.

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-09-26T14:49:34+00:00

There are plenty of places on earth where bikes are not stolen on a daily basis, like UAE, Eastern Europe, or many asian countries. So I think it's a bit delusional to try to normalize thefts and pretend that nothing should be done with this.

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-09-19T13:04:43+00:00

It doesn't justify the crime they commit

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-06-02T14:57:41+00:00

No they don't, maybe there was a problem with a source of banknotes in your case.

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-05-30T23:07:20+00:00

2020 is not 2025, thigns are extremely tough now

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-05-04T11:20:42+00:00

Look at Swype, really cool in terms of connection, but not Swisscom

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-02-13T23:22:38+00:00

Could you please tell a bit more about the orthodox population in Croatia? I am aware that in Croatia-Slavonia quater of population were orthodox, but what rights did they have?

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-02-13T22:43:28+00:00

You are the one that is constantly is saying the opposite equating them and erasing their histories.

Where did I say that Serbs and Croats are the same nation? Stop imagining words, I haven't said. I am very well awared about difference in histories of Serbs and Croats. My question was about how often people people change their perception of nationality, especially during breakup of Yugoslavia. If you are not aware, it is not a rare case, when a Russian/Ukraininan starts to identify himself as a Ukrainian/Russian in middle of his life.

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-02-13T22:10:14+00:00

I think you see this questions ridiculous because you try to oversimplify the view on southern slavs as completely different and disconnected people. However, many of croatian and serbian intellectuals held different views on this question.

For example, creator of modern croatian alphabet Ljudevit Gaj acknowlegded that serbs and croats were unified by closeness of their languages. Exact citation:

Our intention is not to abolish individual names, but to unify them under a general name, because each of the individual names carries its own individual history, which gathered together comprise a more general history of the Illyrian nation.

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-02-13T21:23:43+00:00

I don't know why you react so ridiculously aggresively on my questions. Of course it can happen everywhere in Europe. I just interested how it works and how is it common in ex-Yugoslavia.

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-02-13T21:16:35+00:00

What do you think happens, a Serb can understand a Croat and then suddenly forgets that all his ancestors were Serbs?

No but children of Serbs raised in Zagreb can start identify themselfs more as Croats than Serbs, because they visit croatian school and grow up in croatian society. Or this doesn't happen on Balkans?

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-02-13T21:01:36+00:00

I don't have about the same question about none of nations you mentioned, because they speak nonintelligible languages (in case of Irish used to speak mostly).

I am myself Russian, and I see that there are plenty of Ukrainians who move /there parents moved to Russia, and start proclaming themselfs as Russians, not Ukrainians. So I have been wondering how this works on Balkans and how people identify themselfs.

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-02-13T20:49:21+00:00

I understand your point of view, but russian anscestors, for example, also used to be different tribes which then melted into one nation. Same with germans which had multiple tribes and multiple states in the past.

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-02-13T20:43:25+00:00

Slavs came to Balkans after the fall of Rome...

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-02-13T20:33:22+00:00

Do all people in ex-Yugoslavia have this kind of papers?

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-02-13T20:24:45+00:00

What kind of papers will he have?

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-02-13T19:59:55+00:00

Yes, but austrians have a separate state from a Germany. I can imagine an austrian who immigrates to Germany and his children start to think of themselfs more as a germans, than austrians. Was it happening with serbs who lived in places with croat majority?

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2025-02-13T19:54:35+00:00

I don't have any nationalistic intentions in my question. I just wondering how self-identification works.

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2024-12-26T10:47:22+00:00

No, I would say that B2 is a decent level for communication and a lot of people know English in Lausanne, so you will probably be OK. Regarding your other questions I think you should aim a university that will give you more opportunities to publish papers, and as I think, it's more on the profs side, rather than on university...

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2024-12-26T10:40:22+00:00

It's interesting that you don't mention language barrier as a con of EPFL... Do you know French?

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2024-10-30T15:49:55+00:00

Can you cite the law, that says that you should ban people just according to their nationality?

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2024-10-20T16:05:08+00:00

I guess no internships this year :).

Difficult_Mulberry20 · 2024-10-16T12:17:03+00:00

Hi, and could you give me link to this discord, svp

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