World Happiness Report for young people

[Dušan]

In the Middle Ages, the Balkans had 3 cultural substrates that intermixed : Ancient Balkanic, Eastern Roman (Anatolian and South Italian), Slavic.



The ''oriental'' is definitely not ottoman.

Our pop music is indeed with eastern flavour from our Byzantine heritage. I like it.
Who doesnt like, dont need to listen to it. Big deal.

[Voskos]

Of course there is Byzantine influence in music of Balkan countries.

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=4z...MVMKQbBjTtGF1Q

[protos]

I'll refrain from sending folk/turbofolk music of the 90s and 2000s; heck, even some mainstream artists exhibit such musical leanings, and I'm sure you'll find plenty of songs by Seka Aleksic, Ceca and many others who are examples of this influence, in both the instrumentals and the vocals. I'll provide some links from the Southern parts of our lands, which are notably older, and predate even the 1960s, which Varda was talking about.


https://youtu.be/ttg9MyhWwMk?si=nh0tB57jUXJsF8Gj

https://youtu.be/1GcC110xrb8?si=BJq0FlnnGvXW0Js9

https://youtu.be/mvCsENLgvd0?si=7iRwvVgZlvwIFZXe

I guess you would consider all traditional Macedonian, Bulgarian, Greek, Aromanian or Albanian music oriental then?

This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UG4n7aGRak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_eiF2JJJUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzI3CSqGB94

or even this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj4jTxGNKK0

has to sound completely Oriental to your ears

[Streyndza]

I guess you would consider all traditional Macedonian, Bulgarian, Greek, Aromanian or Albanian music oriental then?

This:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UG4n7aGRak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_eiF2JJJUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzI3CSqGB94

or even this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj4jTxGNKK0

has to sound completely Oriental to your ears

The 1st one doesn't sound oriental, the 2nd and 3rd one definitely sound Oriental.
The last song you've sent sounds like what it is - Greek, although the intro kind of resembles traditional/religious music of the Jews.

[Streyndza]

How do you know who is predisposed to listen what kind of music? It is on individual level.
No, we are not different than the others Serbs, there are also some turkish loanwords among Krajina Serb vocabulary.
Some surnames that are typical Krajina Serb are Slavicized form (ends with -ić) from Turkish loanwords.
So leave that cultural racism.

Why are you trying so hard to make it seem as if the Serbs are all exactly the same? I'm not saying that we're completely different, nor do I deem the Serbs from Serbia to be inferior. It's actual diversity, not cultural racism, and it's nothing to be ashamed of. It doesn't mean that I'm somehow undermining the unity of the Serbs if I'm discussing the differences present among various regions.
You're acting as if heritage, genetics and surroundings of the person don't influence the person one bit, and we're all a "tabula rasa". On the contrary, I believe that our ancestry impacts and defines us in certain ways, even if we've got a free will and everyone is a unique person to a certain extent.

[protos]

The 1st one doesn't sound oriental, the 2nd and 3rd one definitely sound Oriental.
The last song you've sent sounds like what it is - Greek, although the intro kind of resembles traditional/religious music of the Jews.

So essentially you think Orient starts somewhere at Aegean/Thracian lands.

The last one is not Greek but Aromanian.

[Streyndza]

The last one is not Greek but Aromanian.

Oh, lol, my bad. I didn't pay attention to the lyrics, just the instruments.

[Varda]

Its kind of simple. Electric guitars instead of traditional instruments just make it worse.

An example of Krajina Serb traditional singing 'ojakanje.' It is archaic way of singing.