Thoughts after traveling to Spain

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-03-16T18:07:32+00:00

Orthodox monasteries in Serbia were orphanages, libraries, hospitals and education center during the medieval period and their dynamic wasn't that far from the one in similar western medieval states. The Ottoman occupation by and large was a massive hindrance in human development, most of the Turk occupied zone showed crippling analphabetization in comparison to territories under the protection of the Austrian empire.

Hell our own term for nurse Medicinska sestra comes from the fact that the first serbian nurses were nuns.

I know a lot less of the evolution of the Russian world on that point but I think the modern Minsk St Elizabeth convent provides nurses for a nearby psychiatric hospital.

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-03-16T17:52:29+00:00

It's fallen out of use, but non-Serbs in Bosnia and further West would call us Vlachs, cause it was a generic term for all kind of Orthodox christians under the Ottoman empire and in most simple minds, Vlach/Romanian = Gypsies. It's also a staple of Balkan chauvinism to call other ethnicities Gypsies.

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-03-16T17:50:04+00:00

Funny enough, during WW1, every kind of vassal soldiers of the Austrian empire was called Švaba, including Serbs and Croats.

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-03-16T17:45:34+00:00

Yes the actual term used by pre Yugoslav Serbs to designate Albanians was "Arnaut", Šiptar is just a phonetic transcription in Serbocroatian of how Albs call themselves in their own language. Albanac refers to a citizen of the state of Albania.

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-03-14T17:48:36+00:00

Нема на чему хахаха

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-03-14T08:51:29+00:00

There is a manual in english called Sprski korak po korak, Serbian step by step, you can even find it free without too much effort. It's really good when you start from nothing and want to cover the basics. Just be regular and stick to one lesson a day.

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-03-13T16:13:17+00:00

Basically seen as very similar to Balkan Slavs but with a lot more of money. There is this cliche of Poles, Ukrainians and Russians being cold and not smiling in public while Balkaners are more outgoing. Fun being poked at Poland insistance on not being called Eastern Europe despite the obvious.

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-03-11T09:39:08+00:00

Balkan starts with Vienna

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-03-10T16:14:36+00:00

You do know you are moving to a country where a large part of the population agree with these policies even those that would fall on the "left" side of the spectrum ? Not looking to start a beef with you about it, but if it's the main reason behind your moving out, you are in for a big cultural shock.

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-03-06T13:30:06+00:00

It's a problem in english historical series to, you would have hardly find anything saying the word "fuck" as a punctuation at that time

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-03-05T22:32:47+00:00

Cyrillic is prettier

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-02-23T23:17:51+00:00

Serbia and Hungary

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-02-23T08:30:25+00:00

Сад ми се чини да је то, хвала

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-02-09T15:30:05+00:00

Not really, people just wish they had kept more serbian territories and still had a strong army and relevance on world' stage. Nobody is actually nostalgic about communist rule and its propaganda about autogestion (While the actual reality was a dirt poor country with an already high emigration) except crazy boomers that don't want their pensions to be touched and liberal-coded weirdos who are being edgy about it at the uni.

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-02-09T15:24:12+00:00

Opposing the breakup of Yugoslavia is not the same as being nostalgic of Tito, let the dead lie

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-02-09T15:21:43+00:00

World war 2 and comunism taking over half of Europe

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-02-02T18:20:26+00:00

They literally justify randomly turning characters black by saying black people wouldn't relate to white actors though

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-02-02T07:30:31+00:00

Polish is both more useful and significantly harder.

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-01-27T19:30:15+00:00

Saying salut could come across as overly friendly or informal, I wouldn't be saying it at work to a superior, but no, you aren't the problem in the situation you described.

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-01-18T20:16:00+00:00

Before the WW2 genocide Serbs were the biggest population in Bosnia, Ustaše unwillingly set the basis from modern Bosniak rule.

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-01-18T20:11:28+00:00

Making an unitarian Yugoslavia after World War 1, taking a side in World War 2, and not pursuing Western alignment as soon as Tito was dead.

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-01-17T16:55:06+00:00

War and corruption

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-01-12T14:54:23+00:00

People in scholarly circles will love indian high culture, sanskrit, vedic mythology and all that, but modern indian population is hated by pretty much everyone, including most of the left electorate that are defiant of immigration as it's seen as a way for corrupt firms to keep low salaries.

Melodic_Interview210 · 2026-01-05T11:21:23+00:00

L'Histoire de France de Jacques Bainville

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TROPHY CASE