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To: Whitebeard who wrote (261107)	8/10/2008 4:35:27 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794338

I realize that. Serbs, Croats, Bosnians all speak the same language and are ethnically the same, but are split because of centuries old religious divisions - Roman Catholic Croatians, Eastern Orthodox Serbs, Muslim Bosnians. Even though they are all largely unreligious and secular, the religious background of their ancestors drives their differences. The Serbs, my understanding is, think of themselves as the good Serbs and the Croats and Bosnians as turncoats and bad Serbs for their conversions during the periods Turkish and Austro-Hungarian rule. Russia and Greece are also eastern orthodox and thus backed the Serbs for cultural-religious reasons, even though Milosevic was a Communist. None of these countries are very religious. The religion of their ancestors is a marker for who they favor and who they hate. Not unusual unfortunately.