Balkan Stereotypes Explained | Living Ironically in Europe | History Teacher Reacts

[@MrTerry]

How true are these stereotypes?

[@WWFYMN]

very true

[@strahinjatrajkovic4276]

Very true

[@teppcomusic]

Very very true

[@BHuang92]

Not all stereotypes are as true as they say but it doesn't mean it's entirely wrong. Like history, it's more than it is black and white.

[@COMRADE_LUCIAN]

💯🥲

[@James_Crayton]

- Why there are no gays in Serbia? - Because all of them moved to Slovenia

[@robertjug8515]

As a Slovenian I can confirm 😂

[@hracekk]

Good one😂 some of them ran here to Czechia I feel like..

[@guney2811]

Or Greece

[@onedriver038]

Yes, those serbian immigrants are so gay.

[@Albanian_ADN]

Slovenia is gay paradise

[@randomlol437]

For the Montenegro one, they call us lazy because once we declared war on Japan, forgot about it for about 100 years... Yeah..

[@dauritas1460]

The legend says Japanese wanted to go full Pearl Harbor on Montenegro, but they had problem locating it on a map. xD

[@randomlol437]

@@dauritas1460 real

[@hamskanks2459]

wait, is that the reason why whenever i play hoi4 japan randomly declares war on yugoslavia?

[@randomlol437]

@@hamskanks2459 I'm not sure lol

[@MarkoKostelac]

What

[@Arkhalis404]

I mean doesn't Montenegro literally host a laziest citizen competition?

[@themaskedmysadaean8885]

It's a napping competition!

[@ljuma0124]

And we are proud of it. After all the wars where we were victorious we need to rest a little.

[@pakee2352]

Yes. One winner even destroyed an office from a newspaper because they called him the laziest man on earth.

[@Qmarexx]

Yeah, we do. I never went to one, can't be bothered to do it...

[@savastojanovic6368]

after exhausting sabre duel with japanese samurai,you need to rest😉

[@JudgeNicodemus]

Even as a Serb (God's strongest alcoholic) I must admit the Croatia has beautiful beaches and vistas. However I prefer Greece.

[@unknownname6519]

In some days the beaches are ours

[@SCARAMOUSXL5]

BRAVO!!!❤

[@Davian_Thule]

@@unknownname6519 tough words from your bedroom in berlin

[@edwardsallow6518]

“Are they all homophobic?” It’s Eastern Europe of course they are

[@edwardsallow6518]

“Are they ultra nationalists racists “ ? There’s a reason the Yugo wars were so violent and horrid

[@poletangle]

not every eastern european country is homophobic, but i do see your point (the majority of eastern europe is homophobic)

[@JackMarcuson]

@@poletangle you are saying like thats a bad thing

[@jonathancunningham8739]

Greece is not along with to a limited extant Turkey though Turkey is far from perfect.

[@nikicadinirenic6806]

Mostly

[@Pero-zl4jp]

Albanian from former Yugoslavia. The only thing we agree on in the Balkans is that we hate our neighbors back home with a passion but in the west we are friends.

[@unknownname6519]

True

[@igork9691]

Yeah, in other european countries we all gather around in Balkan stores/cafes

[@Pero-zl4jp]

@@igork9691 same in America

[@gudavbourgas]

Never ask a Croatian how their grandfather made soap.

[@Mr-__-Sy]

oh, oh, oh, low blow dude, that's bad and I'm from Romania, so not even triggered by their craziness

[@franmamic6766]

They didnt make soap out of people thazs not even possible.

[@damyr]

@@revert6417 It may be a news for you, but Croatia never invaded Serbia. Serbians come to Croatia at their own risk.

[@AlbertCamus-r6i]

More like never ask a Chetnik where his grandfather made soap...

[@KeeganYF12]

@@franmamic6766 It is possible. Soap in olden times was made from fat.

[@graduskr]

As a Bulgarian, I can confirm that we love to hate each other.

[@bosniencommie1202]

Until we are neighbors in germany then we are best friends

[@Charminarmin]

I’m a Bulgarian who moved to western Europe and always feel surprised when I meet another Bulgarian. It seems like we’re quite underrated

[@Kret-o]

As a serb I can confirm I’m a big brown man currently charging towards the Kosovo border to defend orthodox Christianity

[@pakee2352]

Drunk with a roasted pig on your shoulder?

[@angelocavar8610]

dont forget to bring yar tractors for RETREATING and playing victim cards again

[@andrijafilipivic4480]

HVALA BOGU

[@Ma.hagsh.karin444]

And you have a big black d in your arse

[@ThaumaturgistGuard]

As a bulgarian, I can confirm we are bunch of mongols 💪😎

[@ivailo97]

i'm a bulgarian and yes we are

[@chochkoooo]

Hell yeah, we are!

[@doomdrake123]

Bulgarian here, after whole day of riding horse and practicing my parthian shot.

[@greatnortherntrendkill9136]

Sorry to be a mood-kill but some might want to know the truth on this matter. A model with Thracians, pre-migration Slavs and Turkic Bolgar samples collected from burials show there aren't that much Asian DNA in modern Bulgarians, it would make sense since the Bolgars were just a ruling elite & military, vast majority of people living under their domain already lived there when they were subjugated. I ran some models: Target: Bulgarian 52.4 Thracian 44.6 Slavic 3.0 Bolgar So not that much, similar trend can be seen with Hungarians who think they are descendents from Huns and Magyars.... the only ones in Bulgaria that score "high" Bolgar is Bulgarian Turkmen and Tatars, who mostly came from Crimea. As a Bulgarian Turkmen these are my results: Target: Me 53.0 Thracian 26.2 Slavic 20.8 Bolgar A Tatar from Dobruja should get 30+ Bolgar

[@snappyc_bg8697]

Yes we are

[@colinwilson4609]

My former superintendent lived in Johannesburg in the 1980s. As a Slovak, he used to drink with other Slavs at the Serbian Club. He witnessed a barroom brawl between Serbs and Croats about the best way to kill a crocodile. The next morning, he acted as the second in a duel between the only two combatants who weren't concussed. One of the duelists had part of his ear shot off.

[@JmKrokY]

🗿

[@leonmlinaric4608]

that sounds about right

[@Ballin4Vengeance]

It’s a life or death matter

[@HistoryBuff534]

Yes there is a part 2 and please watch that one, its just as hilarious

[@cipix37]

As a Balkan, we literally don't understand how the rest of the world is not homophobic.

[@HercuLync]

As someone that was in the Balkans for a few years, I think the homophobia stems from so much of the population being closeted homosexuals. Overly tight clothes, carrying purses, constantly touching and hugging their male friends. Balkan men are the gayest acting group of straight guys I've ever encountered.

[@DebasedAnon]

The Slovenian stereotype is due to a long list of reasons and not just the language. Slovenia is very germanized, tends to happen when you're under German control for well over 1000 years. A lot of Slovenian holidays are German(Austrian) influenced, food is influenced and the language is packed full of German words when you're speaking a dialect. As a result of being under Austrian rule they were generally more developed over the centuries while the rest of the Balkans were at constant wars with each other as well as the Turks. In the modern day Slovenia is miles ahead in every development metric and Slovenians tend to shun their relation to the Balkans in favor of getting closer to Austrians/the rest of Western Europe. All of this combined makes them "more western" and therefore "more gay" in simple meme terms.

[@JmKrokY]

Based

[@mottom2657]

Probably the homosexual memes intensified after Slovenia allowed LGTV in the early 2000s. Also, you do have cousins in Croatia: Zagorje, Međimurje, Gorski Kotar, Istria...

[@mottom2657]

@@JmKrokY Yugos call Slovenians GAE but in the end many of them run to Slovenia to get good jobs. Irony at its finest.

[@YTDariuS-my6dg]

@@mottom2657 Can confirm, am from Podravina and have family from Slovenia. Thanks to all the German loan words they and we use, it's relatively easy to communicate lol.

[@JmKrokY]

@@mottom2657 Those are the only good parts of Croatia ngl

[@Alexandru0687]

Balkans Rule Europe 💪🧐

[@woodchuck94og]

They cant even rule them selfe

[@Alexandru0687]

You can't even rule your own english spelling, Same as you can't even rule your sense of humor. And we the balkans love to live like this. We don't go kissing shoes to indentify as something else. *Drops Microphone*

[@wasdkug_tr]

​@@Alexandru0687what Microphone? *Romania's your Microphone before even gravity can reach it*

[@hracekk]

Yeah, from Germany🤣

[@Alexandru0687]

Gravity? Obviously you don't know how gravity works same as you don't know how your brain works when it comes to gravity. Don't worry, your inteligence dosen't float either. Gravity you see 🧐🤌

[@Mr_Savory_Mk6]

Very true, as a Serbian this is hilarious😂

[@myowngenesis]

As a Kosovoalbanian I agree lol

[@AverageBalkanian]

As Greek I can confirm, even though my country is in the second vid

[@Talos3412]

As Polish guy I can confirm Croatia is a Vacation hotspot for many Eastern Europeans, Germans and Italians like it aswell (even though Italians appear there rarely than eastern europeans)

[@matej9368]

Yo my Polish brother you re welcome 🇭🇷🇵🇱

[@Talos3412]

@@matej9368 Definitely coming back, I saw Zadar, Nin, Split, Trogir just need to see Dubrovnik one day

[@matej9368]

@@Talos3412 I visited Krakow in 2018

[@HercuLync]

I've been to Croatia. There are places like Plitvice that rival the beauty of their beaches. Dubrovnik and Hvar were incredible. There is a restaurant in Dubrovnik that serves the best mussels you will ever eat. Croatia is wonderful and I would definitely like to go back and spend more time there.

[@mnemonija]

@@Talos3412 check out the islands, Hvar, Brač...

[@TudyMNX]

The video you are looking for is BALKAN STEREOTYPES EXPLAINED 2 - ELECTRIC BOGALOO

[@AnkfordPlays]

As a Scandinavian I always thought of Balkan as like Mirror world Scandinavia. If our infighting never ended and we still genuinely hated each other, we would be like Balkan

[@_sokolica]

We genuinely love each other here, we are just passionate about anything, fighting too. One thing Balkans and Scandinavia have in common is dry and sarcastic sense of humor, that would be something I noticed, at least with those people I met.

[@livedandletdie]

We still hate everyone here in Scandinavia, we're just too busy hosting gay orgies and taxing the poor into non-existence, to have the time to war. I mean, when the rents in Sweden for a 1 bedroom apartment goes between 7000kr to 14000kr, and most people in Sweden only make about 11000kr, you don't really have the time to go fight with anyone, you're too busy slaving away at work, and then dumpster diving for food scraps to survive.

[@dss1733]

the balkans*

[@kristinastimac1389]

We are nothing alike.

[@volanonion]

as a romanian this is all true

[@greendalf123]

in terms of them being "brown" it's usually racism thrown at one another, because being white is considered superior in the Balkans (by far right nationalists). The whiter you are the better. So calling Serbs or whatever brown is a generally seen as an insult. But as you briefly mentioned, dark hair, eyes, and to an extent olive skin-tones are common in the Balkans (more-so the further south and east you go). Genetically we have very little autosomal DNA from central Asia/the steppes (basically zero) but are more or less a mix of Slavs (and some other northern Europeans) and Paleo-Balkan tribes (like Greeks (or the "extinct" Thracians/Illyrians who were of that deep Mediterranean stock as well)). So that olive complexation stems from that Paleo-Balkan heritage, while the paler more northern European features stem mostly from Slavs but to a lesser extent Goths and Celts as well. It was a mixing pot of tribes.

[@livedandletdie]

I mean, it's not just a balkan thing, the entire planet agrees on that, only in America do their views on what implies good looks ever imply that being fair skinned is bad, hence why lighter skinned blacks in the US are viewed a lot worse by the black community there.

[@kristinastimac1389]

First time ancient romans came in Liburnia, they wrote that People living there were tall ( Like all on the coast), with Blue eyes and blond and light colored hair. I am proof. And many others from that part on Croatia. For generations we have partners with Brown colored eyes and Dark hair but our children have blonde hair and Blue eyes. Exept mine, one has Blue and other has green/Brown. Green came probably from my mother side, from her i Got celtic genes.

[@greendalf123]

@@kristinastimac1389 Absolute bullshit. Liburnians were of Anatolian farmer stock, all dark haired, all dark eyed. If youre blonde, its most likely due to slavic influence and even among Slavs its not as common as dark hair and dark eyes.

[@alexandrurizan7196]

And for all my Balkan viewers in the comments "Be Nice"......:🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 right. We'll try..... 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Alexandru0687]

We try but we can't promise anything to anyone. 🤷🤣🤣

[@Pekara121]

Active military comment zone

[@barkasz6066]

This was just about former Yugoslavia. He has another video about the Balkans titled BALKAN STEREOTYPES EXPLAINED 2 - ELECTRIC BOGALOO where he talks about the rest of the Balkan countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Albania, and Hungary for some reason, although they are also in the Eastern European stereotypes section).

[@dovlassaturnus7805]

About racist stuff you mentioned... there's a great meme, 2 pictures from 70s, on 1st there is yugoslavian students, sharing some notes with students from afrika, and on the 2nd picture, same year in Belgium, they are watching little black girl in a cage, like it's some kinda freak... That says everything about racism!

[@GG-1231]

11:02 Croatia is a very good place for vacation Mr Terry. I am from croatia and when i visit a diffrent nation such as italy, I can clearly see the diffrence in quality of services. Croatian tourism is very very developed on the coast and hotels and other services are held to a quite high standard, most notable in summertime. 3 star hotels in croatia are comparable to a 4 star hotel in italy or spain. The adriatic coast is very nice, and with it being a more closed sea, it is warmer than most seas in the mediterrainian. It is worth visiting, as it is comparable to the rest of South europe, but often cheaper and more affordable. If you are planning on visiting, watch out for sundays, since our government decided stores dont work on sundays, so you will not be able to buy anything there.

[@soundwavesuperior7531]

Grčka je bolja.

[@01ment]

The one would be fool to visit Croatia over Greece.

[@goodside1807]

​@@01ment Wdym Croatia is 100 times better than Greece.

[@goodside1807]

​@@soundwavesuperior7531 Wdym Croatia is 100 times better than Greece.

[@01ment]

@@goodside1807 By what criteria?

[@robertjug8515]

As a Slovenian I'll only answer for the Slovenian ones: We are the most progressive/close to the west from ex-yu nations. We were the first to be cool with same-sex couples, we didn't do an ethnic clensing on our land after the WWII (Nazis and Fascists did try to erase us, we fought back efffectivley with the least support from the Alies (their support went towards the capital of Yugoslavia)), we had the best financial recovery after the breakup of Yugoslavia and I agree, our langauge doesn't sound as 'masculine' as other south slavic languages (but we have one of the closest similarities to our common proto-language, we still have dual (the thing between singular and plural, when you talk about just 2 people) and we have the least offensive curse words (any real bad words are borrowed from our cousins)). When you look at these facts we are tagged as femboys, because we are the least agressive, the most progressive and inclusive of the bunch. If you're a homophobe in our capital you are in minority and the general public agrees you're wrong. If you're homophobic in any other ex-yu capitals I'm pretty sure people will aprove of your hate. Basically when r/2balkan4u existed they couldn't offend us in any other way (as Croats being compared to nazis, Serbs being called orthodox Croats and so on) so they tagged us as ''soft'' :D It was the best subreddit ever. Now after the war with all the chaos of the 90s in the Balkans our country accepted a large number of refugees from other ex-yu countries. In Slovenia you will find nationalities from all ex-yu republics (+Albanians) and I think we get along rather well. The philosopher on the picture is Slavoj Žižek (For anglophones read it as Slavoy Zhizhek, our J is kinda like your Y, and your J is like Đ(in Slovenian we don't have this letter, we write it as DŽ)).

[@FairlyFatherless]

I love Žižek's The Pervert's Guide to Ideology, but I haven't really delved into much of his work outside of some debates (that Peterson one lives in my head rent-free) and occasional videos I've seen him in. Truly a fascinating individual with an equally fascinating mine.

[@JackMarcuson]

slovenian claiming they didnt do ethnic-cleansing after killing Serbs during the war and then used law to declare that 100k serbs living in Slovenia are "non-citizens" is downright hilarious, but hey you have to keep your appearances and pretend you are "European"

[@NimbleDick]

Mucho texto bro. Just say you're all simps. 🤣

[@JmKrokY]

Albanians were a nationality of the former Yugoslavia.

[@JmKrokY]

Zagreb (the Croatian capital) is ruled by the leftst green party, which wants equality between everyone. I wouldn't really consider Zagreb homophobic.

[@Merennulli]

The frog thing started during the 2016 US Presidential campaign. Previously, it was just a frog character named "Pepe" that cartoonist Matt Furie drew for a comic that began being used for memes (notably "feels bad man" where the frog was shown crying). People on meme sites decided to scare off the "normal" people using the meme by making intentionally offensive versions (disgusting, but sourced from kids trying to be edgy rather than organized hate groups), landing the frog character on the Anti-Defamation League and Clinton decrying it and associating it with her opponent. While Furie was trying to reclaim his frog character from the internet's dark corners, organized hate groups adopted the meme and that's why you're seeing it used like that now. Seemingly they turned it from "Pepe" specifically to frogs in general after that.

[@Argondo]

i would say that yes some hate groups have coopted it. but many also use it simply because it is a funny meme. as with everything... if you look far enough someone or some group have coopted something for themselves. like it or hate it. like rainbows and lgbt+ or the swastika.. and a certain hateful german group (ruining the original meaning of it)

[@I_Stole_A_BTR-80]

Also the 4chan campaign to push the media into believing that it was a hate symbol. Pepe is still largely just a frog in a meme format, but of course there will be fringe groups that like it (like the swastika being a symbol of good luck through the 20s and only gaining a second meaning later on, which has overshadowed the 20s and original meaning).

[@JackMarcuson]

"organized hate groups" LMAO, the woke people are such clowns

[@Avalikia]

If you're trying to figure out whether or not pepes or frogs in general have been coopted by a particular group, look no further than how people reacted to the ADL and Clinton deciding it had been. People who hadn't ever cared about that meme suddenly started using it - some because they actually were in some kind of hate group were like 'Oh, we're supposed to be using this? Okay!', some because they weren't but thought it would be edgy to use it if it was controversial, and some - especially normal right-wingers who don't like Clinton - started using it because if the ADL and Clinton don't like something then they're all for it. But then when the news moved on to some other controversy it started to lose a lot of those connotations. Lately I see them being used by people of literally every political stripe. In the end, what this all means is that anyone can use any meme to mean anything, and any attempt to label or police that is kind of dumb.

[@Merennulli]

​@@Avalikia I largely agree with what you said. These sorts of "this group uses this so it's evil" notions are always doomed to cause more false positives than actually identify anything. I gave an example elsewhere of the US $2 bill which is a somewhat rarely used but still in print currency denomination. Due to its rarity in use, people have tried to make use of them as a symbol of something they advocate. So if you're a cashier getting handed all $2 bills from someone, you have no way of knowing if they're supporting LGBTQ+, second amendment, or Clemson University, or just trying to get people to use that denomination more.

[@teppcomusic]

As a Croatian this is very accurate

[@cristixav]

he's a Hungarian from Vojvodina (Serbia), now living in Romania.I've been following his channel for a while now.

[@Alexandru0687]

He dosen't look like Hungarian. Any video of him saying he is Hungarian?

[@damyr]

@@Alexandru0687 yes, in several videos. His name is Januš. He's an ethnic Hungarian from Novi Sad.

[@Geraduss]

No he actually did a DNA test in one of his videos his a bosnian who thought he was a Serb, quite funny.

[@ljuma0124]

@@damyr He did genetic test so he is more of the Bosnian

[@damyr]

@@ljuma0124 Those genetic tests as not accurate anyway. There are plenty of videos on yt how they gave different results with each testing.

[@besabass]

Funny thing is, we're mostly super generous to the foreigners. It's like having a unannounced guest in a middle of a heated disfunctional family fight, and it's like, ok, behave now, we'll deal with this later. WELL COMMON IN, DON'T TAKE YOUR SHOES OF, WOULD YOU LIKE A COFFEE, DOMESTIC BRANDY, 13 COURSE MEAL, MY SISTER...??!

[@McDuggets]

every single country should be like that

[@Ogmios667]

Imagine 2024 and thinking Croatia is a secret place for vacation, a lobotomy case.

[@mementomori1900]

I dont think Balkam people hate each other anywhere mcuh as people portrait it. There is animosity politically and some ppl do but you mentioned Luka, who is his best friend, Jokic, who they hang out with, Zubac (Croatia), Paul George (Serbian wife), Bogdan, Saric etc Its a love-hate relationship and also if you look at current crime rate in these countries youll notice how it is extremely low, especially on the heavy crimes and it makes it very safe place to live. I moved to Balkans from Scandi country years ago and never looked back, weather - amazing, ppl are warm and friendly, party is ongoing. Financially yeah, its not fantastic but niwhere near as bad as ppl think, compared to Eastern Block which YU was never even part of its world ahead, you get everything you need, culture is plenty, i recommend a visit, might surprise you. In Serbia atm but been to Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia, top tier, all 4.

[@ΤάσοςΚαυσοκαλυβίτης]

"I dont think Balkam people hate each other anywhere mcuh as people portrait it." It is a stereotype and we like the cred. Modern day Balkans are tame compared to 100 years ago, but make no mistake, people here have a loooooooooooooooooooong history and that involves a LOT of wars. If there is a dispute, people will dig up things that happened centuries ago (e.g. Basil the second the "Bulgar-slayer") and get on a high horse and run with it as if that stuff happened yesterday and you actively voted for them :P

[@2SSSR2]

All stereotypes of former Yugoslavia are some 95% true. As for your point - 'Serbs think that they should be in charge' there is actually a reason for that, at least from the Serbian side. After WW1 was over Serbia was offered to create it's own 'Greater Serbia' by the Allies, that would have been made from most of former Yugoslavia minus Slovenia and Croatia. But Serbs rejected that and formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenians (later Kingdom of Yugoslavia) because they wanted all South Slavs to live in a single country. Bulgarians of course never joined because they could never solve the issue of Macedonia with Serbia. So how Serbs see this - 'we rejected hawing our own nation and to share the spoils of war with you, plus to liberate you and everyone else we gave 1/4 of our entire population in war. So we should have the biggest say in everything.' The rest wholeheartedly disagree with this even if most of that point is true, Serbia rejected having it's own big country and it did lost a quarter of population in WW1 while liberating it's own country and other occupied people from Austro-Hungarian rule. I mean, if you ask Serbs today what is their biggest mistake - more and more people are saying it was the formation of Yugoslavia in 1918.

[@JmKrokY]

🤔

[@YTDariuS-my6dg]

I understand the idea, but it's convoluted as hell. So... You rejected a land grab and oppression to make a fair country for all South Slavs, but then you still want to oppress everyone else lol. Hell, one of the main economic reasons for why Croats and Slovenians didn't like Serbia is because the highly centralized government in Belgrade would basically reap all our hard work and only used it to improve Serbia.

[@srb998]

​@@YTDariuS-my6dg yes, but centralized government under Karadjordjevic was also the only way you could keep so many agressive nationalities together, as soon as federalization began coupled with an economic crisis ofcourse all fell apart

[@MS-io6kl]

The slept upon Croatia as a tourist destination part is gone for quite some time now, at least in Europe, not least because Dubrovnik/Ragusa was featured as King's Landing in Game of Thrones.

[@jovancolovic3457]

As Serbian,I can explain the stereotypes and how much is true: Raw onion and meat is so true,and it comes from a old people that literally eat raw onion like nothing The stereotype that we are bosses comes from our history About kosovo it's because we as Serbs think that is our territory Most of stereotypes are true,love your videos❤

[@nekipeh7373]

Greetings from Serbia! Love your history content MrTerry! And damn true that day here cannot pass without alcohol and pig fat!

[@XZelectro]

As a Bosnian , The thing about us being stupid is not true

[@Pekara121]

Bro really brought up mujo I haso like wtf? 😂 Every country makes fun of their seljacine 😂

[@XZelectro]

@@Pekara121 Da

[@twinko3554]

yes Croatia is a very popular place to go on vacation. Great beaches.

[@KostisPlayz]

Part 2 is *Balkan Stereotypes: Electric Boogaloo*

[@joecrazy9896]

8:33 It would take a whole essay to explain the what, how, and why. I don't wanna do that, so let's just leave it at, "the Lads are lonely."

[@romarkgaming2009]

Cant believe there was no mention to landmines in bosnia

[@patrykkarcz7859]

When it comes to holidays in Croatia, they are far from being cheap nowadays - global inflation and switching to euro meant the prices rose drastically. Still, it's probably the nicest place to visit in Europe. Weather is fantastic, food is amazing (nice blend of italian and balkan cuisine), water in Adriatic is crystal clear. Also, cities like Dubrovnik or Split and Krka or Plitvice Lakes National Parks are must see.

[@JmKrokY]

The Euro had nothing to do with inflation. The Croatia Kuna was pegged to the Euro at a rate of 7.5kn=€1 for a long time.

[@LatinSlav]

terry croatia is not a cheap hidden beach paradise, it's a expensive as hell beach paradise

[@tsoii]

Croatia is not an underslept or "secret" vacation spot lol. It's a very common for tourist location for other Europeans. It's probably one of the most common areas for tourists to visit next to greece and spain

[@barkasz6066]

I wouldn't call Croatia a slept-upon vacation spot. Maybe it was until like 2009. As a Hungarian I've been going there since 2004, back then it was just a few tourists from neighboring countries. We'd go to very famous and beautiful beaches, campsites, hotels, sites, with my family and we'd be just about the only foreign tourists there with almost everyone else being Croatian tourists from other parts of the country. But after 2009 and especially nowadays the place is filled to the brim with tourists from all over the continent. I have a very emblematic picture of this: 2006, Split, one of the main squares downtown with a beautiful Roman arch and architecture, middle of the tourist season, a few locals are sitting at a local café and you can see a total of 5 people going about their business, the streets are pretty calm with a normal amount of pedestrians. Same place from 2013, same month: the square looks like a can of tuna and there are crowds of foreigners literally everywhere.

[@filipraa9790]

Bro forgot Croatia pushed ottomans back while serbia was licking their boots😂😂

[@Фниксъ]

@@filipraa9790 respect to Croatia from Bulgaria

[@ПавлеПоповић-з5п]

Зове те газда Франц, опет си заборавио шталу да очистиш.

[@pamukpicker]

We were shield for Christianity but everyone forgets that

[@Cyricist001]

@@pamukpicker We and the Hungarians got reduced to Ostaci ostataka. Without the Habsburg supporting us, there's no way we could have won let alone reclaim the lost lands.

[@tntmasteranonymno3610]

Thats what im saying we even had one battle which was one of the key fro stoping ottomans from councuring europe

[@greendalf123]

So with Macedonia, they are NOT the descendants of the Greek Hellenic Macedonians... that being said, part of their ancestors almost certainly mixed with them. Macedonia was home to another Paleo-Balkan group of people, I think called Paeonians, but I'm too lazy to look it up. These people mixed with the oncoming Slavic tribes, who proceeded to dominate the region, and spread their culture and language. For a time this region was just part of either Serbia, Bulgaria, or the Ottoman Empire. When it joined Yugoslavia I think it was called Vardarska (after a local river) but then soon changed to Macedonia. The language the people there speak is very closely related to Bulgarian. Real Macedonia is Northern Greece, hence why this choice of name infuriated the Greeks.

[@rodamaal9220]

(Macedonia, Macedonians) That name doesn't came up just like that. There is a reason why that name is mentioned since the ancient days, in the bible..always will be a thorn in a side for most of you wrongly teached balkans, for no reason.

[@HercuLync]

Macedonia was Macedonia well before the Serbs moved in. Alexander the Great was from Macedon. He wasn't Macedonian like the modern Macedonians, but they weren't Greek either, though their close proximity allowed them to borrow heavily from the Greeks. Before invading Greece, Macedon conquered Thrace and was a large empire of it's own. The museums in Athens have artifacts from the time that talk about how all of Greece rose up to defend against the foreign invasion of the Macedonians. Hellenic is Greek. Hellenistic is like Greek, but not. The Macedonians were the later.

[@SamTurtonsamsamsam999]

It absolutely is true. I was on holiday in Istria in northern Croatia last summer and it amazing there. Highly recommend anyone visits there, lots of olive and wine vineyards etc

[@LadyMoonboy]

I recommend his 'Balkan schools were different' video. It's an absolute masterpiece.

[@samwhary5498]

I looked into Croatia as a vacation destination. Based on the pictures its stunning! And the prices were quite agreeable.

[@reichtanglevictor1694]

I went once to Croatia on vacation, really nice

[@RAGNUSS]

Romania is mocked by many countries, although among those countries there are also countries that have been helped and are still being helped by Romania, such as Hungary, Austria, Moldova, Germany, France, Russia, Africa

[@purple66666]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@purple66666]

Africa is a country ma' man?!! 😂😂😂😂

[@purple66666]

Baaa. Editeaza ca rade lumea de tine

[@RAGNUSS]

@@purple66666 continentul african, nu știam că mai nou este o țară, îți sugerez să înveți puțină geografie și istorie. Una este să spui Africa că continent, și alta Africa ca un grup de țări sub o singură denumire.

[@RAGNUSS]

@@purple66666 apropo, să știi că Asia nu este un continent, deoarece este parte a Europei sub denumirea de continentul Eurasia s-au cam așa ceva.

[@oszkarszajlai2991]

I mean... Hungary is technically Central European, Balkan and Eastern European, in culture...

[@airconditionedrelco7099]

i dont like Albania (Im Serbian)

[@JmKrokY]

🗿

[@barkasz6066]

Macedonians don't speak Greek. They speak a Slavic language closely related to Bulgarian and Serbian. They arrived on the Balkans with the rest of the Slavs in the 5th and 6th centuries. The issue is that the historical Kingdom of Macedon is an area split between Northern Macedonia and Greece, most of it being in Greece. The ancient Macedonians were Greeks who spoke a Greek dialect but other seafaring coastal Greek city-states sometimes debated their Greekness. This has lead to modern Macedonian nationalists in North Macedonia claim some utterly wild stuff like ancient Macedonians being Slavs or at least that they are the descendants of those ancient Macedonians who adopted a Slavic language. In the 19th century and during the Balkan wars the Macedonians had real ambitions to conquer the Macedonia province of Greece so there is also that sort of fear and anger why Greece is so pissed off at North Macedonia calling itself Macedonia.

[@НевенаНиколова-к6ы]

@@rodamaal9220 Wrong. Roman missionaries who created the glagolitic script and tried to implement it in Moravia, together with the Orthodox version of Christianity. The Pope did not take it lightly, they died, their students fled Moravia and were welcome in Bulgaria. The Cyrillic script is not created by Cyril and Methodius. It was created by Clement and Naum, with the help of several other Cyril's acolytes, on the order and sponsorship of the Bulgarian khan Boris, later known as Saint Boris I (Mihail) the Baptizer, Tsar of Bulgaria.

[@HeroManNick132]

It's literally Bulgarian dialect codified on the same dialect continium. The only difference is Bulgarian decided to be reformed on the Eastern dialects and Macedonian of the Western dialects. However there was a significant Serbification of Macedonian due to Yugoslavia just like with Ukrainian and Belarusian during the USSR which got even more Russified. Serbo-Croatian languages are artificially united based of the Eastern Herzegovinian dialect while historically they were different languages while not the same case with Bulgarian and newly created North Macedonian. I know some North Macedonian chauvinists will attack me but it is how it is, they can't accept that their ancestors were Bulgariana and deny that.

[@mark1232546]

​@@HeroManNick132 Not gonna attack, but Bulgarian was Russianized (with the letter я). I just don't accept Bulgaria's view of Macedonian as a dialect. When really, it was a Slavo-Macedonian language that khan Boris adopted so that his people are christianized. Bulgarians were slavicized right? They merged with the Slavic settlers. Like the Macedonians did. Right? It is Bulgarians that refuse to accept that Macedonians, and the Slavs are their ancestors... Also Macedonians do not like being related to the word Bulgarian, because being spiritually attuned with the term Macedonian, they hear ages of brutal occupation. As well as WW2. Yet nationalist Bulgarians keep referring to Macedonians as and the Macedonian language as such. It's not that Macedonians do not like Bulgarians. They do not like your ancient Emperors. As well your current "Emperors" with their anti-Macedonian takes. There's no point in bullying a nation. Peace.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@mark1232546 Basically you act the same as the Ukrainians who can barely speak their language properly just like on ocansionally speak Serbian too, because during Yugoslavia you were forced to know Serbo-Croatian, am I right? Okay, maybe Я is the only Russification but compared to your alphabet yours is more Serbicized and you changed 2 letters to become ''different'' from Serbian one and kept the Old Bulgarian - ꙃ and changed it with Latin letter - S. I wonder why do you deny khan Kuber as ancestor and claim that Alexandros III and Philipos II are your ancestors and tsar Samuel as ''Macedonian'' where if you know Basil II had the nickname Bulgarslayer and not Macedonslayer how come he is ''Macedonian'' when especially his mother was Armenian? And now sure hate us as much as you can but Serbs weren't so different as our government. Serbs during 20th century called you South Serbs, denied your church's existance, occupied you, banned the Bulgarian language in schools, they closed them down and forced on you the Serbian language and now you love them more than your people? Isn't that a Stockholm syndrome? And that'sthe reason why you can understand Serbian better than Bulgarian just for the same reason as how Ukrainians can understand Russian better than Belarusian. And you don't forget Stojan Novakovic's idea, do you?

[@HeroManNick132]

@@mark1232546 Okay but also explain why your ancestors identified as Macedonian Bulgarians but after the independence your grandmas and grandpas told you how they were never Bulgarians which is false? Also is this why you call us ''fascists'' when fascism wasn't a thing here but absolute monarchy?

[@doublep1980]

Yes, Croatia is a great vacation spot but it´s not so much of a secret anymore. Montenegro on the other hand is pretty slept on for tourism, same with Albania. Both countries have great beaches, climate is Mediterranean and it´s way cheaper for vacation there then let´s say Greece or Croatia. Specially Albania is dirt cheap, because they´re not in the Eurozone.

[@georgevan]

11:09 not anymore, it's not on the same level but it's very much not a *secret* anymore

[@TheMiggel80]

i would say the secret is out for at least 15 years...Not that cheap anymore either. But still worth a visit.

[@Mr.scooter-le8yo]

​@@TheMiggel80no

[@AlexKS1992]

I love the intro and I really love the Janus’s channel and forgive me if I misspell his name. I do find the Balkans to be interesting because it is the most unassuming places in the World yet it has a lot of history and it is where the Great War began. It’s crazy really and that’s why everyone loves the Balkans.

[@alensmic6100]

it is true that Croatia is one of the best places for vacations.where most countries like Germany, Czechs, Poles etc like to visit Croatia.NOT CHEAP for vacations, especially the touristic parts.but you can find a lot of coastline, even 21 in the world ranking in the length of the coastline

[@janekmundt579]

I’ve heard it’s the most overrated Balkan country to visit because it is the most touristic. Prices are higher people more likely to scam you etc…

[@rickl9437]

Since his background was the same it looked like he took a seat next to you when you started the video haha

[@VortexThorne]

11:22 Yes, my friend goes every year there, and even gave a decorative plate from Croatia

[@gamps2771]

When it comes to average Serb skin color- Serbs are white, however Serbs from the south tent to be slightly ‚darker‘ (more or less like Italians/ Greeks for example) since the region is a little warmer than the North of Serbia on average.

[@Aboleo80]

I am Bosnian but have been living in the US since 1997. I came here when I was 16 almost 17 so it took a while for me to deprogram from this crazy lifestyle and way of thinking and now I am just laughing at these memes and how insane we all are in the Balkans. Edit: Croatia used to be a cheap vacation spot but it hasn't been the case in about a decade now. Albania and to a lesser extent Montenegro are the places to go to now. Albania is being slept on for real.

[@trus7n0ne18]

Divided by Nations, United by Racism. I love Balkans.

[@flamingarrow7]

Yes there is another video from him about the rest of the the balkan stereotypes that you haven't watched, so check that one out for sure.

[@danutmh]

11:20 there's a joke going around that the only reason Croatia got in the EU is because of its beaches

[@kikono8901]

to be fair, serbia let montenegro be interdependent, but, as I know, kosovo is just too deep in history and too important for nationality formation. Because some key battle against ottomans or something

[@JackMarcuson]

Serbia didnt exactly let them, USA forced a referendum and rigged it, USA employs a so called "Balkanization" tactic where they break up nations into smaller states because they are easier to puppet around and cause wars when the time comes for it.

[@Geraduss]

I'm not Serbian but I've looked in to history, it's more than just some battle, the actual first mention of a Serbian nationality and Serbian state was in modern day Kosovo, first kings were crowned and ruled from there, then later their christianisation started there to, why it also has some of the oldest Serbian churches. It would be like If in 500 years the 13 founding colonies in the US became overrun by migrants and then wanted to secede to make their own nation based on everything contrary to the founding beliefs of the USA.

[@JmKrokY]

​@@GeradussEveryone in the U.S. is a migrant.

[@muhamedmahmutovic6639]

​@@GeradussSerbs were already Christians when they formed state on that teritory so it isn't true that they started christianisation from Kosovo, also most of the oldest churches from that area are built by Byzantines, churches that Serbians built are much newer than the oldest ones and were built in 12th and 13th century while the oldest churches on Kosovo were built by Byzantines in 5th and 6th century when all Slavs were pagans.

[@ZeroHourProductions407]

Slovenia is the home of EKWB, which for some years was like the face of premium custom watercooling components. Croatia? Well, they got Croteam... Serious Sam. 🤝 Respect. Before this, I only knew of Bosnia as the place that was hyper violent. That footage was honestly beautiful ❤️ Serbia? 😂

[@pruga20]

Croatian Rimac Nevera fastest EV in the world.

[@JmKrokY]

​@@pruga20s p e e d

[@kuau_Queen-kiki-4652]

5:54 it aint racist its just hate towards country's,

[@chancelloryusuf]

Living Ironically in Europe is a Serb of Bosnian ethnicity

[@denifnaf5874]

And part hungarian living in romania

[@eldinovm8077]

11:20 been there to Dubrovnik can confirm its awesome

[@Demonspain]

Hi , im from Spain and i would like if you explained the black legend around our country

[@LuDa-lf1xd]

Yes. It would be nice. At least people wouldn't call him a Spanish ultra nationalists for telling history as it is.

[@tompanoname3579]

One of first things my dad (rest in peace) told me, is that we have war every 40-50 yrs. Greets from Zagreb! (the dude making videos is Serbian/Hungarian man living in Romania)

[@koriolakorni5041]

Ey, the place that is overexploited by Poles isn't overlooked, just cheaper in comparision to greece

[@miniak2708]

havent watched it yet, im wondering if u mean croatia or turkey

[@koriolakorni5041]

@@miniak2708 haha, when I'm hearing Turkey I'm thinking more about Russian tourists.

[@JmKrokY]

True

[@FrejthKing]

"ive seen something ive heard this and that, learn and think for yourself.don't listen to other people."

[@HercuLync]

Don't build upon the collective knowledge of the people that came before you or are around you. Start from scratch and learn everything through trial and error.

[@WendlgoClips]

Nice video, good job

[@matollsen2523]

2:30 you are very right....the border between two continents is always the place every empire wanted to control. That's way the strong people emerged. Ready to fight and protect all the times

[@mihariznar3792]

Yugoslavia started dying as soon as Tito passed….

[@rainbowraver666]

the frog meme thing WAS co-opted by fascists back in like 2016 but its been thoroughly reclaimed at this point and terminally online people of all ideologies use it now

[@Amrani97]

FeelsStrongMan for the people, by the people

[@swag31556]

pepe is just a more ancient version of pog

[@pythonbg2457]

btw WHATEVER you decide to say (as roast) for the balkans NOBODY from the balkans will hate you for it maybe only if you say "those guys are stupid" or "those guys have very bad humor i dont like it" cuz who tf are you to say what is good humor for us :D but if you say something ironic that some 4 year old minded guys will hate you'll get more respect from balkans than hate and in the video you asked if the balkans are homophobic OH FUCK YEAH WE ARE

[@joshuapannell8131]

Pepe the frog was co-opted by unsavory people for sure. The creator of the character put out a documentary as an attempt to get Pepe taken off the list of hate symbols.

[@gamblerIX2]

In the 90s Romania give arial space to americans and give radars and anti aircraft missiles 😂😂😂 to serbia

[@mine0lord027]

Can confirm that Croatia is a great vacation spot. Really popular for it's beaches and coast. Know that a lot of GOT was filmes there. It's also amazing if you like sailing

[@Mulmgott]

Macedonians claim that ancient Macedonians are related to them even though they are slavs and the historical record clearly shows that ancient Macedonians spoke and wrote in a Greek dialect. The slavic languages spread to Central Europe and the Balkans in the 7th century AD during the slavic migration. So linguistically and culturally there is nothing connecting them to ancient greeks which is why any historian worth their salt sees this fabricated identity as something silly.

[@CocoSon-we2rg]

As Bulgarians, Serbs, Croats have Thracian, Geto-Dacian, Illyrian genes in their DNA, we cannot claim that North Macedonians do not have some genes from the ancient Macedonians. The problem arises when they also claim the Macedonian culture, which is Greek and not it has to do with the Slavs .

[@HercuLync]

@@CocoSon-we2rg Ancient Macedonian culture was heavily influenced, by the Greeks, but was also influenced by other neighboring regions like Persia and Thrace. They were not Greeks. They were their own culture that like many other ancient cultures have been lost to time. The land they primarily inhabited is in both modern Greece and Northern Macedonia. Both countries can lay claim to the history, but rather than share, both are stubbornly pushing a false narrative to claim him as their own. A lot of the things people cite to prove ancient Macedonia as being Greek, were actually things the Greeks allowed Macedonia to do trying to prevent an invasion.

[@darkfalc007]

Pepe (the frog) was for a time kinda associated with more right-wing groups, but now came back to normal usage on twitch n stuff

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

Yes, I was surprised when I recently returned to twitch and everyone was using something normally that I had learned to recognise as a dogwhistle.

[@Merennulli]

@@rasmusn.e.m1064 Most of the so-called "dogwhistles" are things that have non-hate meanings. And some of them (like the 3 finger "hand sign" that hoaxers spread on Twitter in 2016) were purely fictional initially, but people in hate groups saw it, believed it, and made it real by imitating what they saw reported. The problem with these things is that the symbolism is only known by those who use it. A less vile example is the $2 bill, a legal US currency denomination that doesn't get used very often - but is used by LGBTQ+ advocacy groups (referencing the "as a 2 dollar bill" phrase) AND by gun rights advocates (referencing the second amendment). So if a stranger pays a cashier in all $2 bills, they're probably advocating at least one of those things, but good luck guessing which.

[@JackMarcuson]

@@rasmusn.e.m1064 good goyim

[@Thixico]

@@Merennulli The answer is both if they're a femboy

[@Melodeath00]

It never stopped being used on twitch and discord. Gamers don't give a shit that some random people out there think of it as a dogwhistle.

[@sandercohen5543]

The more i look into it, the more i wonder whether there was ever ANY historical basis behind naming macedonia, macedonia.

[@espadaboi6384]

As a balkan person I can say; that I love my neighbors but I won't hesitate to make fun of them.

[@Dylanhya]

the funny zone! mr terry reacted to the funny zone!

[@myowngenesis]

I disagree about Kosovo/Serbia being similar to Israel/Palestine. They're comparable only insofar as there's a frozen conflict in both. The sheer boundless uncompromising hate in the Levant puts the Balkans to shame. Case in point: when the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army, a guerilla separatist movement that operated in Kosovo from the beginning of the 90s up until the Nato intervention) did their war of liberation, it was Kosovo and only Kosovo that was the goal, not all of Serbia. I suspect that had the KLA been as uncompromising as Hamas, it is very doubtful there would be a Kosovo state today, partially recognised or no.

[@Smiley043]

The thing about balkans is that you will never find somebody who hates and at same time loves their neighbours as much..I feel like us hating on each others is kinda of a way to show them affection.

[@Nostripe361]

I think the far rights took the Pepe meme ( the cartoon frog with human figure) and have been using it in fascist memes

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

For years

[@alexhousakos]

20:15 It is a simple conundrum of a nation made up by Tito. Titoism propagated "Macedonia" as a major idea, to 1) force Bulgarians and Serbs in the area to switch to that language and 2) to create a claim for SFR Yugoslavia to claim the region of Macedonia belonging to Greece (which joined NATO in 1952) and gain access to the Aegean Sea. Fast forward to the 1990's, the propaganda still remained strong and they made up their own nation with the same claims, but they weren't Yugoslav ones, they were Skopjian ones. Hence the name dispute. But this has also caused issues with Bulgaria as well, and since there's no more bad blood between Greece and Bulgaria, both nations band together to combat this propaganda issue. "Macedonian" intellects also spout ridiculous claims that Alexander was Slav (LOL) and that Serbian and Bulgar (later Bulgarian) national figures were theirs.

[@robertjug8515]

Found the Greek 😂 In all honesty I think most slavs mixed with regional ethnicities, I doubt anyone honestly thinks Alexander the Great was Slavic, since the migration of Slavs to the area happened after his death. But it is a high possibility that people living in the country now called Northern Macedonia who are of Slavic descent have genetics from Hellenic people who were living there before their arrival as well

[@dimitrisanastopoulos8957]

​@@robertjug8515yes but in the same way a white american cant claim to be indigenous because of 5% ancestry, they also cant especially when they dont even speak the lamguage or have the culture

[@JmKrokY]

Anyone who makes Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece weaker is based 🗣🔥🔥🔥

[@000netko]

Croatia is no longer the cheaper version of West Europe. Now you have Germans, Italians, Austrians, the Dutch, all complaining about seeing bigger prices than at home.

[@thundergod4242]

Montenegrin here,they are he even went soft in that video,but depending on where you go your nationality can get you killed because the hatred towards each other has gone down but it's not gone yet

[@matollsen2523]

All the Balkans are Slavs, except : Turks, Greecs, Romanians, albanians,....

[@livedandletdie]

Fascists don't care about the Pepe Frog, people who meme a lot love the frog, but the Fascists well last time I checked I haven't seen anyone on the left post any Pepe memes. So if the leftists don't make memes with the frog, then it's impossible for a fascist to actually have used that meme. And while the left calls anyone who doesn't agree with them fascist, no matter how mild-mannered or kind a person is, or anti-government someone is, I mean the last time there was a fascist on the right side of politics was in the 1900s... I think Silvio Berlusconi was the last one. These days Fascist has devolved into a term that the left uses against anyone even slightly less left leaning than them. So unless you're full communist to the point where you're making Mao or Stalin look like Mahatma Gandhi, you're pretty much gonna be called a fascist by the left online these days.

[@PeoplecallmeLucifer]

8:50 this is a bit of a double entendre MIG as you know is a Russian plane manufacturer so what the Croat is saying is 1. you spot the mig 2 you aim at the mig but also "mi ga" means to "to me" (loosely translated) and this Show "Kursadžije" is a fantastic all Balkan comedy since they have a Serbian, a Montenegrian, a Croat, a Bosnian and a Slovene ..... and yes even here the Slovene is portrayed as Gay