Sunday, April 26, 2009

Is Yugoslavia Dead? Ponderings by the BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/2767597.stm

In class, we talked about the diversity of Yugoslavia compared to other regions of Eastern Europe. This article from the BBC asserts that in fact, keeping this diversity was a failed attempt at co-existence. Thus, the war came out of awkward relations between regions and ethnic groups; Yugoslavia, in many ways, is proof that a post-racialized global society is still far enough off to be called a pipe dream.

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