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We have 5% of rejected applications and the limit for visa waiver is 3%.
How to deal with those 2% is very complex because it's tied to Cro citizenship eligibility and that is an extremely politicized issue here. Lets just say minimum 2 of those 5 are people from Bosnia who never set foot in Croatia and can't be easily background checked because they're not under Cro jurisdiction. Americans do not care, and rightfully so.
 
Complicated. In June I met a Bosnian from California whose parents left during the war. She also seemed to have a Croatian passport which confused me.
 
A Bosnian is basically a Croat who uses Turkish loanwords. And a Croat is a Serb without neurosis.
 
If there's one thing I learned in Europe, it's that Europeans take their little cultural distinctions very very seriously.
 
Perun said:
And a Croat is a Serb without neurosis.
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Black Wizard said:
We are all Montenegrins. Especially Night Prowler.
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LooseCannon said:
If there's one thing I learned in Europe, it's that Europeans take their little cultural distinctions very very seriously.
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I don't mind if some African or Asian person doesn't know the difference between Croats and Serbs, at all. We don't know the relations between various peoples of China either.
The only time I felt a bit offended (inside) was when hospitable Lebanese waiter, who asked us where we are from, had no slightest idea about basic European geography, such as general whereabouts of Germany, Italy and such.
 
Perun said:
A Bosnian is basically a Croat who uses Turkish loanwords. And a Croat is a Serb without neurosis.
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You could say so but it is not that straightforward from a linguistic point of view. The modern Croatian language uses a standard spoken by Bosnian Croats, although it was the minority dialect, it was done so it avoids choosing one of the two equally big dialects - the one spoken on the coast and the one spoken in central Croatia. The mutual intelligibility between them being slightly lower than of Polish and Russian.
 
Magnus said:
Ča?
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:) Tho this is Istrian variant, again significantly different from central Dalmatian one.
If you can understand a bit of Serbian/Croatian, here's a side by side lyrics of a modern Dalmatian chanson - http://www.almissa.com/dalmatinopoviscupritrujena.htm . Also the song is a proper masterpiece but as any chansone if you don't understand the lyrics it's a bit pointless.

This is offtopic, maybe moveable to language topic?
 
Zare said:

:) Tho this is Istrian variant, again significantly different from central Dalmatian one.
If you can understand a bit of Serbian/Croatian, here's a side by side lyrics of a modern Dalmatian chanson - http://www.almissa.com/dalmatinopoviscupritrujena.htm . Also the song is a proper masterpiece but as any chansone if you don't understand the lyrics it's a bit pointless.

This is offtopic, maybe moveable to language topic?
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Malo nešto razumem, druže Zare, hvala ti! Kdo so Katolibani btw?
 
I don't understand why this person is a "war hero". You go to other part of the globe to wage war on someone who did you no harm and bomb them from the air. You get shot down they capture you, and you're now a war hero.

However I understand what brain cancer is and I wish him the best. He might not be a hero in my book but it does take a warrior to make this step. After all this time he probably feels enslaved to the treatment.
 
Zare said:
I don't understand why this person is a "war hero". You go to other part of the globe to wage war on someone who did you no harm and bomb them from the air. You get shot down they capture you, and you're now a war hero.
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Soldiers don't get to decide where they're sent. They're given orders and they follow them. When those orders wind up getting them captured and tortured as a prisoner of war, and left with permanent physical limitations as a result, people generally view that suffering and service as heroic.

McCain's Keating 5 bullshit, on the other hand...
 
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