Im not from Europe. Can someone explain what are the Balkans exactly and why there’s “beef” between them?
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Why is there beef? OK, so we need to talk about ancient history….
In all seriousness, the average citizen does not care. My homeland of Macedonia is said to be on thin ice when it comes to racial relations with Albanians, yet I’ve only ever seen kindness at best, and indifference at worst when the two groups collide.
The real issues are the more radical groups of people and politicians, but most of the country is fine.
I’ve talked to a serbo-Kosovar once who told me how well both sides interact on a daily basis, it’s not like an active war zone out there.
Is there still active violence and extremist people and world views? Sadly yes. But the most angry of those bunch are the type who typically have never even interacted with those that they hate. That’s because it’s easy to fear and hate the unknown, but hard to hate once you share some rakija with each other.
That’s not to say the usual political nonsense doesn’t occur. But honestly, I don’t think it’s any worse than the political nonsense of the west. The Beef present there is just a different flavor of the beef present everywhere.
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