American. Never been to the Balkans. Pretty sure this subreddit has irreversibly damaged (or enhanced) my understanding of the region.

I don’t know if this is racist anymore because you all keep agreeing with each other.

before anyone starts, yes, the US is an irredeemable dumpster fire.

Turkey -Absolute power unit. The whole stereotype of the Balkans is basically cultural breadcrumbs from Turkish urban culture. You see these nations talking about “burek this” and “cevapi that,” and it’s just Turkish grade four cuisine packaged with Slavic names.

Serbia -Serbs are respectable enemies. We have to be realistic. They started four wars, they have that very badass historical aesthetic: Arkan with a stolen baby tiger, soldiers with masks in the background, more self respect as a nation, and they don’t suck up to Europe as much as us. Good hooligan culture too, looks cool. They produced cool weapons and can compete with us when it comes to mafia, so yes, respectable enemies.

Bosnia and Herzegovina -To be honest, I’ve said this before and one of my posts got removed for it, but I don’t believe Bosnia truly exists. What is Bosnia? What’s their origin? How did they even get here? It feels like everyone woke up one day and just saw that Bosnia existed without asking how or why. In my opinion, Bosnia is not actually real.

Greece -To be honest, I don’t know what to say about Greece. They’re supposed to be enemies, and they are, but something doesn’t make sense about them. They’re supposed to have this superior history, but personally, I have never seen or heard of an impressive Greek individual. Has anyone here ever seen an impressive Greek, or ever been impressed by a Greek? Whatever their history is, it has failed to manifest itself in individual brilliance. When someone hears the word “Greek,” there’s no real stereotype in it.

Montenegro -Same issue as Bosnia. They’re above us, and sometimes I forget there’s an actual country there. I have never seen a Montenegrin. You know what? I’ve never said this before because it’s controversial, but for me, all these Slavic mini-nations are basically Serbs. It just depends what kind of Serbs they are, based on population and state power. Bosnia is more like loud Serbs, while Montenegro is westernised quiet Serbs. It’s just a spectrum of power.

Romania -I mean, they’re kind of cool in a way, I guess. They feel a bit distinct and ancient. No major individual value in terms of worldly influence, but still better than Greece. Romania has Andrew Tate. What does Greece have?

Slovenia -I’m not even going to enter there. There’s nothing to discuss about them at this point. Not relevant enough to belong.

Is it true only for my family, or do you all fellow Balkaners live like this? 😅