’We are savages’

Ahahaha:

"All Mostar needs is about 10,000 Serbs. Then the
Muslims and Croats will get along."

LOL

never thought bruce lee would be made canidate for national icon....is he bosnian?

Amir - basically anything considered lower-class,
any type of Western sub-culture, is considered very
cool among young people here. But it depends on
the age groups. We seem to go through
generational-type changes faster here than
elsewhere.

My 'generation' (20-25), for example, loves the
"Sarajevo School of Rock". Just about all of
Yugoslavia's popular rock bands were from, of
became famous, in Sarajevo. Clothes were kind of
provincial - black shoes, white tights, black skirt,
white shirt, red sweater, bow in your hair. Then it
changed to skin-tight jeans, big hair, leather jackets,
and all of that.

My niece, she's 11 years old, loves rap. Bosnian
artists like Edo Maajka and Erato are what she and
her friends consider cool, and love. Clothes are
SUPER Islamic. She'll wear an ankle-length skirt
with a strapless-shirt and lots of fake gold necklaces
and bracelets. She'll tie a bandana in her hair like a
veil, etc.

Rap, Kung-Fu, Stoner culture, all of that went through
phases here.

We even had Slavic Mexicans in the 1950s and 60s.
Mexican music, always praising "the revolution", was
brought here by King Tito and took hold like you
would not believe. Search the internet for YU-Mex.

As for beauty queens - it's just the culture. Bosnia,
like Italy, like Colombia, is obcessed with beauty.
Come here, you will never see a woman on the
street in sneakers, with jogging trousers, with no
makeup - NEVER. Wealthier women even begin
every day at the beauty salon, like eating breakfast.
Like Irna Smaka, Miss Bosnia 2003, said: "In
Bosnia, a woman who finds a cure for cancer will be
congratulated. A woman who finds a cure for cancer
in Italian heels and high fashion will be
immortalized."

It's just a weird form of sexism. Women here aren't
expected to cover their bodies from head to toe and
walk around in burkas, but it is expected that you
always look as dressed-up as possible. I mean...
when I walk barefoot, my heels don't touch the
ground. That's how young I was when my parents
started putting me in heels, my feet didn't even get a
chance to grow so they're flat on the ground. LOL

Every culture does their own weird things I guess.

Edited by Mila

"We are savages. Once again we've shown what Balkan savageness is!" lamented another man in disbelief.

Nunchuks on a statue? they wouldn't ;ast the night in any town. lol.