Does Slovenia belong to the Balkan

[TheMaestro]

there is a gradient South to North, but these places are Balkan from larger to smaller extent:

tier 1:
northern Greece - Albania - Macedonia - Bulgaria - southern Romania

tier 2:
Montenegro - Bosnia - Serbia - western Romania

tier 3:
Croatia - Slovenia - Hungary - northern Romania

tier 4:
Slovakia - southern Poland - Carpathian Ukraine - eastern Romania - Moldova


tier 3 is shared with gradients of central Europe.

tier 4 is shared with gradients of Central and Eastern Europe.


a Slovene is more Balkan than a Moldovan but less Balkan than a south Romanian for example, culturally

Romania /Moldova and Ukraine are alien for Slovakia.

[TheMaestro]

I would say they are Central-European, from what I've seen and experience with the people, I wouldnt say they have the crazy Yugo mentality.

[Jana]

I would say they are Central-European, from what I've seen and experience with the people, I wouldnt say they have the crazy Yugo mentality.

There is no crazy Yugo mentality. What you mean is Serb mentality, since Yugoslav pop culture was modified form of Serbian "culture". Macedonians aren't like Serbs mentally, let alone Croats.

[Jana]

Balkan firmly ends at the Croatian border. Anything north of that is Central Europe. Slovenes are cool but they lack that Southern spirit true Balkanites have. I've also noticed they are a bit more industrious like Germanics. Bulgaria should have been in Yugoslavia in place of it TBH.

IMO, Balkans = place where your people are common (Gypos/Indics). That's leave us out, but it would include large parts of CEE.

[GDDR6]

Some people place Moldova in Balkans. Slovenia is where the Balkans start from the West.

[TheMaestro]

There is no crazy Yugo mentality. What you mean is Serb mentality, since Yugoslav pop culture was modified form of Serbian "culture". Macedonians aren't like Serbs mentally, let alone Croats.

Unfortunately it is. And I don't think it's derived from Serbs or one entity.

[Jana]

Unfortunately it is. And I don't think it's derived from Serbs or one entity.

Macedonians are probably most classically Balkan people in ex-Yugoslavia, but they don't seem like Serbs at all. Here people see Macedonians as relaxed, friendly and musically talented people. Pretty peaceful too.
That's probably not what you have in your mind with crazy Yugo mentality.

[Nurzat]

No. It feels between northern Italy and east-central Europe (including Austria, but excluding Germany/Poland). I've passed trough (again) recently.



Moldovans are genetically Balkan people, weather you like it or not. Slovenians aren't.

genetics aside, though Slovenes come in a natural gradient also genetically at the edge of it but still there, while culturally Slovenia is ex-Yugo, nothing to debate. I've passed through it several times and it looks civilized, true, but also Bucovina in Romania looks like that, nothing less, houses, roads etc, they are both on 3rd tier Balkanicness, both with Central Euro influence. southern Romania is hardcore Balkan, while Moldova region is Eastern Euro by any means (landscape, customs, cuisine, rural vibe, urban Soviet-like architecture, alcohol etc, too many similar things to dismiss it only by genetics, by which anyway half of the region approaches nearby sw Ukrainians a lot)

[Mortimer]

There is no crazy Yugo mentality. What you mean is Serb mentality, since Yugoslav pop culture was modified form of Serbian "culture". Macedonians aren't like Serbs mentally, let alone Croats.

I met Serbs who think yugoslav culture or serbian turbofolk pop culture is not european or serb, but gypsy and turkish and arab, and mostly gypsy. Do you agree with that? Or you think it does have something to do with serbs too?

[Nurzat]

Slovenia is a country that has beaches by the Mediterranean sea.

quite far from the Baltic shores, quite far from Berlin, not so far from Venice, Milan or Rome, even Athens and Istanbul are probably easily reachable.

just sayin'