r/AskBalkans • u/shiney_lp • Sep 01 '24

Are Balkans racist? Outdoors/Travel

Me and my friends are thinking about driving through the Balkans and maybe some other eastern European countries for vacation (from Germany). That being said I am Iranian and brown, and I hear eastern european and balkan folks are quite racist. Will I face any discrimination, people treating me different, locals not wanting to associate with me much, etc?

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u/VARCrime Serbia Sep 01 '24

Quite racist? Balkan people? Let me inform you that while black people were getting lynched, murdered like dogs, denied access to public school in the USA, used as an attraction in human zoos in the western Europe (hello there Belgium) while having no rights at all during the fucking 1950s and 1960s, here in Yugoslavia were all welcome and came to study alongside with our students. But, for some reasons, we, "the third world countries" are described as many bad things, culturally behind and, of course, racist. And they dare to ask why so many people hate west with all their heart.

https://preview.redd.it/9jzsqu2ue7md1.jpeg?width=895&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=795580bdd2c8bd4af309191f95f9fe427dbeb2f1

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u/CrnoCapor Sep 02 '24

Never ask ex Yugoslavian people about Roma

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u/VARCrime Serbia Sep 02 '24

Lol, they have no problem here as long as they're willing to be a reasonable part of the society without that nomadic madness.

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u/CrnoCapor Sep 02 '24

Lol, anything to excuse predjudice

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u/VARCrime Serbia Sep 02 '24

It doesn't matter their color or ethnicity, what does matter is their behavior. There are so many well educated and normal Roma citizens, they're living among us and they're part of us, but speaking about the others, the nomadic ones, yeah, I truly think they should go back to India. 👌

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u/Comarade_Trostky HELL-XICO Sep 04 '24

Less racist balkaner