Balkan stereotype

• Author: Muhamet Mavraj
• Pages: 245-255

European Journal of Economics, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

Vol. 2 No. 1

January, 2018

ISSN 2519-1284

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

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Balkan stereotype

PhD (C.) Muhamet Mavraj

Abstract

In the waters of thousands of -isms, some of them have to do with intercultural communication.

SomeofthemderivefromthestereotypepaernsofculturesincertainregionsAlongstreams

of history isms and stereotypes tend to become intercultural communication barriers. The

Balkanregion isone ofthem Beinga diversiedmosaic ofdierent culturesreligions and

ethnicitiesas wellas ofquite dierenthistorical originslocal stereotypesboast withinthis

region although in long periods of historyfollowing the common ruler have manifested

tremendous tolerance But outwardly the stereotypes of the transpiring human scale that

come from the self-conceived cultures as the above, are depleted as collective punishments

throughouthistory

Thereis noaccurate measuringbut Balkanismcan be rankedin agroup withother isms for

thedamage ithascaused toanother peoplesuch asantiSemitismThroughout thehistory

howeverthe brutality of Balkan stereotypes has been mitigated to some extent while the

Balkannations all ofthem havevolunteered aspirationsfor integration intothe European

project.

Keywords: Balkan stereotypes, Balkanization, Balkanism, Orientalism, Occidentalism.

On the slippery ground of ism-s and centrism-s

If centrismbecomesthesuxofatoponymorofahorizonanameofaspiritorathing

etcmeanstomarkanideologyAnamethatexpressesindividualorgroupidentity

regionalorcontinentalethnicormultiethnicculturalorgeneralinparticularmeans

to put it at the focal point and discuss it, usually, positively. It places the center of the

worldthestartingpointorpointofviewforyourself and the otherAsabearerofthis

centrism, or centrismsonepersonorgroupcanbeplacedinthecenteroftheuniverse

aplace or whole geographicalregion a culture ora dispersed religion simplyan

identityYoumay be egocentric or ethnocentric Americancentrist or Eurocentric

theocentricorreligiouscentricetceventuallyyoucanbealloftheseatoncebecause

identitiesare multipleas wrien byJudith NMartin andThomasK Nakayama.

Centrismisnarcissisticinitselfselfpersuadinginmostcasesandspeaksvoluntarily

abouthimself has a selfaktingtendencyorrarelymotivated tocounteract such

as self-defense afrocentrism ). It shows its superiority and tends to revolve around its

axis, or or to interpret the world of others by comparing it with the values around its axis.

Physicallyspeakingitmaybeazero vectorwhenitis aplaceholderwhenthe start

andendpointsmatchtoitselfFormationofwordswithcentrismsasasuxhasthe

sameconstructionbutcannotalwaysbeelaboratedwithapredeterminedpaern

Issuescould bedierentlyconsidered whentalking aboutisms assuxof concrete

namesTheyareomnipresentWiththemcanbecreatedorcanbeidentieddoctrines

 JudithMartin andThomas NakayamaInterculturalCommunication inContexts thed BostonMcGraw

HillChapterIV