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 Marty McFly wrote:

^ Fair comment. Incident as dangerous as this is isolate one, I agree. Even though we have some fights, some people (white / gypsy, both) crippled because of racism (again, from both sides, because I'm not sure how known it is to outside world that it works both ways). Fights, brawls, some demonstrations, nothing big as this.
Even our breaking out of communism was without one single death, which is something I'm proud of and quite happy about. I was born that year you know, in February 1989.
I should also tell that father of this little girl was convicted criminal who was avoiding prison sentence (robberies). These four guys who did it were unemployed / lowly payed manual workers, mostly poor and with only basic level of education. Same as victim's family.
Just saying, just saying. Don't mock me for that.

In one of discussions about this, someone raised a concern, how this can be racial hatred, when there are basically only three races. Europoid, Negroid and Mongoloid. Is it racial anymore ?

Moris, by the way, how it is in your own country, how it is with Serbs & others in Balkan ?

Division between black, white and Asian dropped out of favour in anthropological sciences and sociology, because the terms are too hazy and vague. But you don't need a distinct ehnicity to have racial hatred, because those who propagate hatred will easily skew the parameters in their favour. For example I never understood those who are shaving their heads and wearing swastikas...in Slavic countries. I mean, I don't buy them in any case, but to have a Neo-Nazi group in Slavic countries seems extra ridiculous...it's like having them in Israel. But it's the easiest thing to do to is to proclaim someone is less worthy than you, and there you go. I never, ever heard anyone claiming his one race/social group is less worthy than some other one, hence all the supremacists are just full of bullsh*t, which they are.

As for the Balkan issues, I think you know me well to know my cultural tentacles are spreading everywhere...if you're asking me about general public opinion in the Balkan countries, that's a complex issue that will take too long to respond here...but the situations is, in general, much better...compared to the war years, the region is the garden of Eden, especially in my area.