Originally Posted by
Dalmatinac
Dude, the term "Catholic Serbs" is historically non-existent and a sort of an oxymoron. Dalmatians called all the Orthodox people in Dalmatia as "Serbs" regardless of where they came from (for example even Bulgarians) which to Dalmatians was a synonym for a Serb. So to say that people in Dalmatia including what was once called Turkish Dalmatia (present day W. Herzegovina) are "catholic Serbs" couldn't be farther from the truth - it would be the same as saying "catholic orthodox" or "catholic protestant", at least in the regions mentioned here.
Regarding the music you posted there, that music is characteristic of Dinaric regions which cross the ethnic boundaries, so again the dinaric is not the synonym of a Serb. In fact, this music is very well played by the Croats who live in the Dalmatian hinterland while in some Serbian ethnic lands is not (for example Vojvodina is more similar to Slavonia in that regard). Thus here we are talking about regional differences not an ethnic ones. It's obvious that people who live in the mountainous regions of Dalmatian hinterland would play very similar music, have very similar traditions and costumes regardless of them being Croats or Serbs or whatever else they call themselves. Someone even mentioned klape singing here. Klape singing is indeed Croatian tradition, but that being said it doesn't mean that the type of singing mentioned previously is not. It's simply because East Adriatic coast where this type of music came to exist has always been inhabited by mostly ethnic Croats while the Serbs lived on the coast in relatively small number and haven't adopted that culture as theirs. If they had however, they would have probably developed their type of Klapa singing as well by now.
So, my suggestions is to stop spreading mythomanic and chauvinist bullshit here if you don't want to further embarrass yourself. Cheers.
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