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Post by aaayyy on Feb 13, 2008 15:27:37 GMT -5
Yugoslavia. What was your perception about your country, other countries (East and West), did you feel Yugoslav first and Serb/Croat/Slovenian/... second, did you and your relatives support idea of Unity and Brotherhood. What do you think about YU education system (comparing to other countries), are you satisfied with education you got in former YU?
What were your school customs? For example was it considered OK (among pupils) to use cribs, to prompt (secretly) to your classmate, etc... Did children see it as friendly behavior or as humiliation of their classmates?
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Post by Emperor AAdmin on Feb 13, 2008 17:02:26 GMT -5
"Yugoslavia. What was your perception about your country, other countries (East and West), did you feel Yugoslav first and Serb/Croat/Slovenian/... "I had luck to have been raised in the paradise that used to be Yugoslavia. First and foremost felt as a Yugoslav as did anyone else in my family and anyone else I knew. There simply was never any talk of being anything else. We were the center of our own universe and any other part of the world was secondary at best, perhaps to be visited some day at most. " second, did you and your relatives support idea of Unity and Brotherhood. "Absolutely and fully as to us any other part of Yugoslavia was part of the same country, our country. Only suspicions that I remember were towards Kosovo Albanians and their loyalty towards Yugoslavia which especially became acute in early 1980s when there were all the demonstrations in Kosovo shortly after Tito's death (a day that felt cataclysmic in my country back then as all of our hearts were broken, women weeping, traffic stopping etc). Open mistrust also existed towards 'our' nationalist political diaspora in the West (especially US and Australia) which was openly against Yugoslavia. "What do you think about YU education system (comparing to other countries), are you satisfied with education you got in former YU?"Comparing to US it was more advanced that's for sure and I am satisfied with it. " What were your school customs? For example was it considered OK (among pupils) to use cribs, to prompt (secretly) to your classmate, etc... Did children see it as friendly behavior or as humiliation of their classmates?"Early school years I remember as being 'Titovi pioniri' wearing small blue hats with red star and read handkerchief around your neck. Kid s as any kids had their games, teasing etc. This would have been a scene in any Yugoslav school 25 years ago. It was a part of my life that will forever stay in my heart and be able to eclipse the lunacy of the 1990s that Tito forewarned us about long before by saying something along the lines of; "We are indestructible from the outside world for they can not harm us much less destroy us. This could only come from within, from disunity caused from fifth column"Again one word come to mind from those times Paradise
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Post by aaayyy on Feb 14, 2008 13:35:59 GMT -5
Thank you, AAdmin. It resembles our schools very much... But some kids in your picture look very small, at which age did you join the Pioneer Organization? Our kids did it at 9-10, before that they were "Oktyabryata". We also wore red handkerchiefs around our necks (but we tied it differently), which we were taught to call pioneer scarf (at our English lessons) ... Was your class multi ethnic? Did you emigrate because of the wars? _______________ ...and where is rex with his remembrance, I wonder?
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