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I am a Croat and no, we dont describe them as Vodka, nor are we aware that people call them Vodka.

We (yes, a Croat here) are in a bit of a pickle, and let me explain the core of the it...

But if you choose to look 50 years before that, it was the Croat ustazi allied with Nazis slaughtering Serbs wholesale, to the point where even the Nazis themselves were appalled...

I predict that one year from now, I'll be able to find an example of a Croatian corporation having loaned money to a Croat with income below 1,250 kuna.

Surely that's at least in part just because of the contrast to the bloodshed and absolute savagery that followed when Yugoslavia splintered and the erstwhile Serb, Croat and Bosnian brothers started murdering each other?

Jewish and Serb organizations, Croat historians and antifascists, as well as international observers, have repeatedly warned of revisionism in Croatia, which seeks to minimize Ustaše crimes and even celebrates the Ustaše regime.

The agreement had stipulated that the Bosniak and Serb cantons would each have covered 44% of the country's territory, with the Croat canton covering the remaining 12%.[3] On 28 March 1992, after a meeting with US ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmermann in Sarajevo, Izetbegović withdrew his signature and declared his opposition to any division of Bosnia.

I don't see how it's possible to retain individual cultural identities in that construct - either you'd have to compromise on representative democracy and equally distribute representation across all cultures, making the vote of a Croat valued more than that of a German, or you'd end up making the vote of the Bulgarian irrelevant against the vote of the French.

TIL the "cravat" was named after a "Croat" light cavalry unit — essentially southern slavic hussars?

"Why are there so many Serbo-Croat words in there???" The "error tolerance" you mention is interesting, especially in contrast with Mandarin.

("Cravate" and "Croat" are related words.) You can imagine my distaste for this — therefore, I referred to that country as "Tieland" for a while." Come on.

For reference, I'm half-Croat half German, I got the "don't play with shit" talk, I reasonably know how to deal with guns and I know of more than just one road in the backwaters of Croatia where almost three decades after the war, there are "warning, mines" signs plastered alongside the fields.

The original article[1] (Croat here) actually only mentions strata going into different periods, not exact years of age.

One of my old bosses was Bosnian Croat, dropped articles like crazy, and added them in the wrong places.

Tell that to the inter-ethnic families in former Yugoslavia (i.e., Croat-Serb, etc.).