Is Croatia a Balkan country?

[Siegfried]

please define "Balkan memtality"
every single country on this peninsula have its own mentality.
look for ex Bosnian, Montenegrin Serbs and Serbs from Serbia. same ethnicity bu totally different mentalities

Hardly totally different. It's easier to see the mentality if you're a foreigner than if you're not just as it easier to notice grammar rules in another language than a native speaker.

[Crn Volk]

I believe Croatia contributed to the modern day term 'Balkanization'.....

[Insuperable]

please define "Balkan memtality"
every single country on this peninsula have its own mentality.
look for ex Bosnian, Montenegrin Serbs and Serbs from Serbia. same ethnicity bu totally different mentalities

Balkan mentality - work to live instead live to work, listening to Turkish inspiring music, drinking coffee at the bar all day... That is how I perceive Balkan mentality i can not remember right now but I could list many more things

I guess this is present in Croatia too but what is the most important is that we slowly try leave that behind and that is the most crucial factor to me.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia... ( do not about Bulgaria or Greece ) what I wrote IS THE WAY OF LIFE.

[Rron]

This thread is about question Croatia is or not balkan country,? it is balkan country here is talked about Balkan region (word speaks itself thats automatically mean its about geographical position sense, while culture take place on different concept of society i dont think that its of any importance mentioning culture as condition about position of any country in geographical meaning,i must mention that even within same country some cultures are different.

[Njegosh]

Hardly totally different. It's easier to see the mentality if you're a foreigner than if you're not just as it easier to notice grammar rules in another language than a native speaker.

maybe not totally, but very different. I can reckognize Bosnian from Serbian guy only by observing how both of them act. without even hearing how they speak

[Raikaswinþs]

Balkan mentality - work to live instead live to work, listening to Turkish inspiring music, drinking coffee at the bar all day... That is how I perceive Balkan mentality i can not remember right now but I could list many more things

I guess this is present in Croatia too but and what is the most important is that we slowly try leave that behind and that is the most crucial factor to me.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia... ( do not about Bulgaria or Greece ) what I wrote IS THE WAY OF LIFE.

seems like everybody's Balkan then. Save for third world sweatshop worker... and Croats, it seems.

Ok, next poll, is Gibraltar Iberian?

[Insuperable]

seems like everybody's Balkan then. Save for third world sweatshop worker... and Croats, it seems.

Ok, next poll, is Gibraltar Iberian?

Than what defines Balkans to you? Geography or Ottoman conquered areas or ....?

[Lena]

drinking coffee at the bar all day...

LOL! I drink nescafe a lot and enjoy it and to be honest, I prefer our cafe cult over bars in the States. If that makes me somehow backward, than be it

Also, I suspect Ushtari decided to troll our hearts out hmmm...

[Svipdag]

When I visited Gibraltar in January, 1954, it gave me the impression of being a thriving English-speaking town. The nearest Iberian town was La Linea de la Concepcion on the other side of the airport, which had the distinction of having 700 brothels.

It was Spanish-speaking, dirty, and poverty-stricken. If that was any sample of Iberian communities, then Gibraltar was definitely NOT Iberian at that time


"This [was] not my time; this [was] not my world; these [were] not my people." - Martin H. Francis

[Lena]

seems like everybody's Balkan then. Save for third world sweatshop worker... and Croats, it seems.

Hehehe! Not really, it depends on the personal culture of the individual and Co. he/she works for. There are companies all across Balkans who have very high work ethic and discipline and can be easily compared to hard core capitalist USA companies.