damn man. it's just weird when i hear people calling an ethnic bosnian person, who is orthodox and calling them "bosnian serb" i mean it's not correct...
but not all bosnian orthodox christians are ethnically serb, are they? i mean aren't some actually bosnian? bosnians are mostly muslim aren't they? i mean ethnic bosnians. but there's not only one religion in bosnia. so it just seems incorrect for an ethnically bosnian person who's orthodox to call themselves "serbian" if they have nothing to do with the country or nationality.
My understanding from the various readings I've done in the past is that Bosnians (Muslims) are descendants of ethnic Serbs and Croats who converted to Islam in the 16th century, so in essence there is little to no ethnic difference between an ethnic Serb from Bosnia and an "ethnically Bosnian orthodox."
Yeah, the confusing thing is that Serbs, Croats and Bosnians are of the same south slavic stock (ever notice how we look all so much alike lol), they just developed different cultural identities over time, and at various times. revisionist nationalists obviously always come up with outlandish claims to make their people different from the others (ie. croats as slavic-speaking uber-Aryans, or all other slavs descending from the serbs etc). it's the same with the spanish, italians, portuguese etc (all latin stock), but they began developing their separate identities earlier than us, so there's a more pronounced ethnic difference between them and between us.
"bosnian serb", "bosnian croat"...
anonymous
August 17 2007, 21:30:04 UTC
Serbs and Croats have lived in the Balcans since the 7th century... During the five hundred years long occupation of the Otoman's Impery, many of them were forced to take the Islam as their religion. Those people are ancestors of the ones which are today called Bosnian Moslims, or Bosniaks
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but i see what you're saying.
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