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Entry: Tribe, Class, and Murder Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/tribe_class_and_murder#19681 Post contents: Re: Eagle: I do not understand the hostility of your post. You asked what the basis for an animosity was. I provided some of the reasons Croats claim to explain why they dislike Serbs. Yes, you could quote things that Croats have done that anger Serbs. But you asked about the Croats, and those are the things Croats say. Why be defensive or hostile? "In light of all this abuse you list, how would you explain the rather peaceful coexistence between Slovenes and Serbs?" Um, well, generally speaking, don't the Croats live between the Slovenes and the Serbs? They didn't live next to one another, or in the same villages, so it seems it would have been rather difficult for the Serbs and the Slovenes to run afoul of one another as opposed to Serbs and Croats. I wasn't saying that Croats have clean hands, and I specifically said that nothing the Serbs did was as bad as what the Ustashe did during WWII -- far from it. But, as you point out, both sides have historical bases for anger with the other. I don't see how that's controversial. Sent at: 2008 05 16