Nah, not in the last hundred years surely are any Slavic peoples volatile or nationalistic. Why, if they were politically concerned, or historically oppressed, these people from the Balkan states and counties and towns might have emigrated in wholesale lots, either just before or just after a whole lot of wars, which of course haven't happened in the last hundred years either. Now, stubborn, that you might get a lot of those ethnicities to agree on: not that they are. No, no, it's the Finns who are STUBBORN. Hoohoo, Ashley ----- Original Message ----- From: Karen Heiser To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [CROATIA-L] Balkans Dear List - I think the point I was trying to make is that while logically we may all know about the Balkans, etc, in this area you have 100s of years of ethnic "bad feelings". Lumping us altogether under one name is NOT going to make that go away. Even in today's "enlightened" age (and several wars later) some of us are much more likely to label ourselves "Slavic" than "Balkan". And this is not intended to start another war...after all, we Slavic/Balkan peoples are kind of volatile! Karen Heiser Weed, Siskiyou, CA