• 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    What’s the one thing you would want your average global citizen to know about the balkans?

    Don’t trust anyone fom here, you’re bound to get screwed at one point or another.

    Is there somewhere else you eventually want to live?

    Yes, preferably somewhere colder, like Canada, Sweden, Norway. Not Russia, cuz the mentality and the people are basically the same as here.

    When people say they want to Balkanize _ does that bother you?

    I have no idea what that means, it’s the first time I’ve heard that term, could you explain what it means?

    Who would win in a fight, a hot dog or a taco?

    IDK, we don’t have tacos here, we have gyros.

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      Balkanize as a verb just means to break up into several smaller states, often but not always based off common culture/language/religion, similar to what happened to both Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Yugoslavia.

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          It was first used after the first world war to describe what had happened to the region post Austria-Hungary and Ottomans/the balkan wars that preceded ww1. Darkly humorous that the balkans themselves have been balkanized more than once, though.

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            More than once, ha 🤣. I don’t think anyone keeps count 🤣.

            There have been wars here since forever. It’s a crossroad that connects South-East Asia with Europe.