(08-28-2020, 11:28 AM)FunkBoreland Wrote: When I saw Luka retweet Jusuf Nurkic about "We did it" to his grandma, I thought, WAIT A MINUTE! Isn't Nurkic Bosnian? And Luka supports Nurkic!? I thought, the tension must not be there at all, I'm assuming especially to younger generations.
There is no tension with majority of people within Yugoslavia, even during the war period, as well as now. In former Yugoslavia most people lived well together, regardless of religion differences. Almost every city had a mosque, orthodox church, and chatolic church etc. religion was accepted and you could be whoever you wanted to be. Its the same people, with same language and traditions, way of life etc, humor, but with different religion. Languages are the same with regional differences or dialetcs, as in all other countries in the world. This is why Luka can speak with a Bosnian (Nurkic) or Serbian (Jokic) and Montengran or a Croat equally well, its same language.
During 90s there was a lot of tension during the war as a minority of wrong people came into power and starting to spread the hate. This tension spread to many other people, even those that never before had any tension (or that has today). It is politics and the intention of that political act and it worked as intended, it split the country.
Its mostly love tough between the people there. When Luka plays, most of the people that composed Yugoslavia are cheering for him, you can bet on that, he is loved throughout all the republics, there is a high connection between these people. You will find some extremist in each of the other countries that are haters, but mostly people are cheering for the other. Same when Djokovic playing tennis etc. Same with Music for instance, take every country as example there and what they listen to is the artists from the other yugo countries equally as much as from their own musicians.
It is a highly complex region, and will always be like this unfortunately and fortunately. I think Vlade said it nicely in his HOF speech with: "The people of the Balkans are like a dysfunctional family. We may fight and argue, but in the end we are family." With balkans Vlade means only Yugoslavian countries.
Me myself I am from Bosnia (so im quiet stupid and cant read a book). And I cheer for everyone equally that is from the former Yugoslavia, regardless of which republic they are from.
There its mostly love, and not hate, and this is also reflected what you see in the NBA players. Most of them have parents and family members coming from different parts of Yugoslavia. It would equal to suddenly splitting France in different regions, or Spain or Germany. Chance of a German having parents from different parts of Germany is very high. Or perhaps Switzerland would best example as is formed of 3 regions. This is the reason why Luka enjoys the company of these people you see on the image. And this also explains why all (most) their names end with "ić", they are from what used to be the same country.