Serbs In Croatia

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Media Review: Documentary; Death of Nation: Yugoslavia
Serbs in Croatia (Ethnical and Cultural Problem)

Introduction
Modern societies are mostly stratified through the aspects of religion, race and ethnicity. Most of us would immediately associate terms of biological traits as the most important factors that are used for ethnic and nation identification. One of the main tasks of this paper is to explain and to support notion that ethnicity, nationality are and always will be socially and culturally constructed. It is important to say that question of political, economical and ideological power will also be included in the discussion as very important element that takes and gives social space to the development of nations and ethnic groups. Education, religion, language and history are elements that are used and exercised through the power and they can be recognize as sources of the power on their own. Following the anthropological definition on ethnicity; main factors that symbolize and represent ethnicity are religious belief, language and culture.

BBC documentary “Death of Yugoslavia”, produced by Brian Lapping as well as several other written sources will be reviewed in order to give us better understanding how ethnicity and nationality are developed and influenced through the different time periods (Lapping, 1995).


Some general information
Balkan region with its historical, ethnic and cultural and political complexity was always interesting and rich area for every aspect of the cultural and ethnic research.
Clash of the east and west Civilizations, cultural heterogeneity, mixture of Christianity and Islam and many other different cultural aspects have to be considered in order to get full understanding of situation.
The BBC documentary is very analytical and systematic project that includes and explains most important historical events that happened during and before the last civil war i...