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Had an exam at uni this morning, subject "History of Serbian political thought". Only read the shortened 15 page version while waiting for the bus to get to uni and did the test in 5 minutes. Just got the result and I passed 
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It basically consists of biographies/thoughts of about 15 politicians, all of them active before WWI.Also we don't have lessons about the 90's-present at all. We study stuff up until Tito's death in 1980 and rarely anything after (when it comes to Serbia, that is). I asked one of the assistant professors about that and he said that they try to incorporate some of that stuff but it always ends up in shouting and arguing between students and professors.
I never had a single lesson about the 90's war in elementary or high school or uni.
Travis The Dragon
AFTERGLOW!!!
That's great to hear NP! Congrats!
That frightens me mildly, but only because I'm not sure what the "official" stance on the 90s wars would be in a Serbian classroom.
Forostar
Ancient Mariner
I sort of expected that already, but still that's really bad. I hope the darker past will get attention as well at some point. They should call it: "History of Serbian political thought until 1980".Nothing
Also we don't have lessons about the 90's-present at all. We study stuff up until Tito's death in 1980 and rarely anything after (when it comes to Serbia, that is). I asked one of the assistant professors about that and he said that they try to incorporate some of that stuff but it always ends up in shouting and arguing between students and professors.
I never had a single lesson about the 90's war in elementary or high school or uni.
Yep. I'm pretty sure that there will always be "patriots" who will claim that we did nothing wrong and that the Croats and Bosnian Muslims did all the bad stuff.
Ariana
Black-and-white leopard
This is not just something Serbia has to go through. It's quite the same here as well - no mention of the years after 1989 in our history classes. It's still to early to draw conclusions on our own post-Communist years, probably because we're still having basically the same generation of politicians, historians, sociologists, etc. Things are very vague. I guess in Serbia and other former Yugoslav republics things are even more complicated by other factors.
If Russia is any guide, you elect a virtual dictator and then have pretendemocracy.
Forostar
Ancient Mariner
In order to prevent to have another "know-nothing of 1980-2010"generation, I wouldn't wait too long with teaching history in a proper manner. But what is proper? It's complicated indeed when people in power change or omit facts.
How to educate in democracy? Wow... Well, let's hope the EU can give assistance. Take a look at some countries with democracy.
How to educate in democracy? Wow... Well, let's hope the EU can give assistance. Take a look at some countries with democracy.
Yeah, the problem with that, Foro, is someone can't come in from outside the country and give a list of "how to be a democracy". That's how America does it, and it hasn't been successful. Serbia, and all the other former Soviet states, have to find their own way. Help can be offered, but not forced.
My Russian studies professor talked a lot about this, about how post-Soviet democracies are completely different from western democracies. Different expectations, different functions, different concepts of freedoms.
Exactly. If the EU went and said "do it our way, and get it right from the word go", that is only the source of resentment and nothing else.