Posted by Ludilo on September 26, 2003, 12:29 pm SK: you mentioned "However, I personally do believe that Bosnian Croats are quite distinct from other Croats. I think I found this interesting. How distinct are Croats from Istria to Croats in Slavonia? How distinct are Croats My point is that Croatia is a regional culture and distinctions are seen as a part of that. You make some vaild points concerning nationhood, but my question to you is does a common territory have to be Maybe that may not be enough to say that Bosnia is a piece of Croatia that fell away and created its own identity, and And now we bring ourselves full circle and have an independent BiH. Does having an independent BiH mean a new As for me I am Croatian from Herecgovina. I am distinct from other Croatian regions as they are to me.
I have been following the discussion of BiH Hrvati and i want to throw my two cents in.
that our traditions, language and history are all distinct."
from Dubrovnik to those in Zagorje? I'd be willing to argue that people from Sinj have more in common with Livno and
Tomislavgrad then they do with Zagorje. Ditto for Slavonci and people in Bosanska Posavina. And yet we are
all Croatian.
politically united at some point and time or not to be considered part of the greater nation? A lot of your other
points tie in to this as well. Dubrovnik was an independent city state, there was the Republic of Poljica, so there have
been other states on the territory that we could ascribe as "historically Croatian" and a Bosnian Kingdom would not be
considered any different in that regard.
yet the concept of a Bosnian national identity was non existant up until this war. Think about it.
Bosnian was considered a regional identity and everyone seemed ok with it. Even in Austro-Hungarian times, the governemnt
in Vienna tried to support a Bosnian identitty (mostly to offset Croatian and Serbian claims to BiH) and the project
miserably failed. If there was an identity, I would think that the people would take advantage of it.
language should be created or new identity created? Ie Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Venezuela all speak Spanish even though
they may have different local identities, while in Switzerland people speak German, Italian, Romansch, and French but not
Swiss. I can see a new political identity, but I don't know about anything else.
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