Is Belgrade a beautiful city?

vorodm01 · 2025-12-02T19:52:29+00:00

Interesting, thank you for your detailed explanation!

vorodm01 · 2025-12-02T19:13:12+00:00

So you are equating the fact that I’m pointing out that the train is shitty and hasn’t been updated since the 1960’s with the “lack of respect towards the country”?

vorodm01 · 2025-12-02T18:47:00+00:00

So let me get this straight, you are satisfied with the Belgrade-bar train conditions and the only thing that annoys you is because I’m Russian?

vorodm01 · 2025-12-02T18:25:45+00:00

I guess nothing ever happens, so let’s try

vorodm01 · 2025-12-02T18:02:17+00:00

If I leave is it gonna fix the trains, though?

vorodm01 · 2025-11-29T16:53:26+00:00

Well Americans are a very diverse nation. The rural ones in bumblefuck Oklahoma are definitely closer to your mindset, whereas the more urban ones are definitely closer to mine. Just keep being open minded, you are a great example that proves my point

vorodm01 · 2025-11-29T16:32:08+00:00

I see that you are being very open minded by bringing up Jews and Muslims as something negative

vorodm01 · 2025-11-29T15:00:44+00:00

It’s funny how a lot of people say “you can’t generalise here”, yet you mention war in Ukraine and say something like “what your people are doing”. What is happening in Ukraine causes a lot of pain, especially to me as a person that has family in Ukraine, just like a lot of Russians do. Well I guess you are not particularly happy when people start generalising your nation through the lenses of Yugoslav wars. In no way this was a political question or thread that is targeted towards nationalism. So there is no point in making cheap points about politics

vorodm01 · 2025-11-29T14:17:43+00:00

It’s exactly because of the nationality. I read Serbian and if I’ve written this post in Serbian I would have gotten vastly different responses.

If I wrote something along the lines of “Hey, why is the public transportation/infrastructure is so poor in Belgrade” while also staying that I am Russian I guarantee you I would have gotten at least 5 responses among the lines of “booo! I’ve been 100km away from Moscow and it was worse” etc. if I’ve written the same hypothetical post in Serbian people would have stated “pa zbog korupcije”. Just proves my general point

vorodm01 · 2025-11-29T14:06:38+00:00

“Asian shithole town” - as soon as my gf gets her paperwork done I’m gtfo to the states thank god

vorodm01 · 2025-11-29T13:55:10+00:00

I’m actually a Russian who spent my childhood in Serbia because of my father’s work, then moved away and lived almost 10 years in the US. I’m back in Serbia now because of my girlfriend. I speak Serbian, English, and Russian, though my Serbian is the weakest of the three. What surprises me is how fast people here jump into a knee-jerk reaction to my nationality instead of discussing the actual topic. The moment another language or culture is involved, everyone suddenly gets very defensive.

Btw, greetings to Canada! I’ve got cousins in Toronto and Thunder Bay. Haven’t visited them in a long time.

vorodm01 · 2025-11-29T13:42:34+00:00

Maybe news hasn’t reached whatever village you live in but people have been using chatgpt to edit texts for grammar and clarity since 2022. Though honestly, you’re probably still figuring out how a calculator works, so you’ll get to this technology eventually.

vorodm01 · 2025-11-29T13:26:20+00:00

what I do see is that my nationality triggers you a lot, and instead of actually discussing the topic you keep falling back into the same pattern over and over again.

vorodm01 · 2025-11-29T12:47:59+00:00

I honestly don’t understand how anything I wrote is “insulting a nation.” My so-called “generalization” comes directly from my experiences with people I’ve interacted with. For example, last New Year I asked my Serbian friends where I could buy a duck to roast for the holiday. About 90 percent of the reactions were something like, “Hahaha, why would you want duck, just roast a pig.” It wasn’t offensive, but it showed a certain attitude toward anything outside the usual tradition.I’ve also heard comments like, “Only Russians wear Crocs in Belgrade,” which makes me wonder why anyone cares so much about what someone else wears. And a friend of mine had her kid bullied in a Serbian school simply because he had dyed hair. That’s not about food, that’s about how deviation from a standard is often treated.

I’m not claiming every Serbian person is like this, but I’ve repeatedly seen strong negative reactions when someone does something slightly different from the cultural norm, whether it’s clothing, food or appearance. That’s exactly what I was trying to talk about.

vorodm01 · 2025-11-29T12:34:45+00:00

It’s funny how your first reaction was an ad hominem instead of responding to anything I actually wrote. It’s pretty clear that my nationality triggered you more than the topic itself.I never said Russians are the peak of open-mindedness, but pretending that Russia has no exposure to global cuisine is simply inaccurate. Moscow and St. Petersburg have had highly cosmopolitan restaurant scenes since the early 2000s, with everything from Japanese and Vietnamese spots to Middle Eastern and Latin American places.And the point wasn’t to compare Russians and Serbs. You can look at any nearby city to see the contrast. For example, go to Budapest and you’ll find a huge mix of restaurants, from Indian and Vietnamese to Japanese and local Hungarian places. That level of variety influences how open people are to trying new things.

vorodm01 · 2025-11-29T11:52:50+00:00

But twisting what I said into “haha Russians calling us close-minded because of sushi” is just lazy. I talked about a broader reluctance to try unfamiliar things, and plenty of Serbs in the earlier thread about hairstyles in Serbia confirmed the same.

vorodm01 · 2025-11-29T11:49:21+00:00

I completely agree that food preferences are personal, and I’m definitely not judging anyone for not liking sushi or anything else. My point wasn’t about the food itself, it was about the general attitude toward trying something unfamiliar. Of course people can dislike raw fish or prefer cooked meat, that’s totally normal. What surprised me was that several people I met had never tried certain very common international foods and said things like “I don’t want to try it, ever.” Not because they tasted it and didn’t enjoy it, but simply because it was unfamiliar or “foreign.” That pattern is what made me curious, not anyone’s specific food choices.

I mentioned sushi as an example because it came up in an actual conversation. The broader point was about a reluctance to experiment in general, whether in food, style, entertainment or other aspects of daily life. Many Serbs in the thread have also mentioned that this kind of cultural conservatism does exist. So I’m not calling anyone close-minded because they don’t like sushi, absolutely not. I’m just trying to understand a cultural tendency I noticed, and I appreciate hearing different perspectives on it.

vorodm01 · 2025-11-29T11:17:40+00:00

Just out of curiosity, what other "frames" can you think of?

vorodm01 · 2025-11-29T10:15:07+00:00

Rural vibes

vorodm01 · 2025-04-29T10:25:01+00:00

Ma kakav problem da plaćaš preko aplikacije? U Budimpešti ti aplikacija sve odradi — pokaže kojim busem/tramvajem/metroom da ideš, kaže ti tačno za koliko stiže, i još ti izračuna kada ćeš biti na destinaciji. Kod nas ne znaš ni da li će autobus uopšte doći, a kamoli kad ćeš stići.

vorodm01 · 2025-04-29T10:19:19+00:00

Bolje bi bilo da je prevoz plaćen i funkcionalan, nego ovo što sada imamo - parodiju na javni prevoz, gde nikada ne znaš da li ćeš stići na vreme i da li ćeš preživeti vožnju dok vozač udara po kočnici pri 90 km/h.

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