Are Serbs and Croats similar (only non yugoslavs and non Balkaners accepted to answer)

**Mortimer** · 11-20-2019, 04:11 AM

As neutral observers do you think the serbs and croats are similar? I think they are and bosnians too and montenegrins, of course there are smaller differences but it is like hamburg and munich though. It is still similar thing. Now Feichy hates this and she thinks croats are much more like hungarians and austrians and poles though. Who has complex Feichy or the Serbs who say Croats and Serbs are similar folks? I speak as neutral observer and to make the yugos are similar thing.

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...towards-Croats

**Incal** · 11-20-2019, 04:29 AM

They are basically the same thing divided by religion and recent conflict.

**Duffmannn** · 11-20-2019, 10:02 AM

It's like trying to distinguish phenotypically between catholic germans and protestant germans.

**~~Maintenance~~** · 11-20-2019, 10:25 AM

Yes

**wvwvw** · 11-20-2019, 10:32 AM

As much as Slovaks and Czechs are similar, or Ukrainians and Russians, or Spaniards and Italians in latin America.

They are cousins but different ethnic groups.

**Aldaris** · 11-20-2019, 10:51 AM

Well, you're asking people who are incompetent to answer in the first place, for the most part. When others see South Slavs as more or less an unified entity, it comes from lack of knowledge, not neutrality or objectivity. I'm guilty of that myself, but you can't blame outsiders for not seeing all the nuance, unless they have particular interest in the region - which most don't.

**TheMaestro** · 11-20-2019, 11:00 AM

Imo Croats are closer to Serbs than to Hungarians/Slovaks, but out of CRO/SRB/BiH they are most northern shifted.

**Blondie** · 11-20-2019, 11:00 AM

Croats have different religion, different historical orientation and more westernized country than Serbia, but serbs and croats are not far away from each other and there are tons of similarity.