Board Thread:Theories/@comment-29978021-20160915234054/@comment-8458738-20161002173721

Shan48 wrote: Yes, as for now, Slovakia can be considered as a modern Western country. Well, I don't mean modern like Denmark or USA (since the corruption problem wasn't solved to this date), but it's still better than it used to be.

Our cultural connections certainly did not ended after the separation. Czechs and Slovaks are really close, maybe we could call ourselves The Brother Nations. Our culture, history, language, art, this all still remains very similar within the two states. In this particular case, we could certainly be compared to the former Yugoslavian nations (both the Slovaks and Czechs are even closely related with them).

At my university, a lot of professors used to visit Ljubljana and they were astonished by its beauty. Also, as for this semester, I am actually learning Serbian language (lectured by a Serb from Vojvodina). A lot of Roman Catholics from Slovakia visited the Medzugorje site of pilgrimage in Bosnia & Herzegovina. And to this date, I have been in Croatia for three times (mostly on summer holidays). So even with our Southern Slavic Friends we have certainly close relations :-) That is pretty interesting I gotta look that up about the things you mentioned, like the pilgrimage to Medzugorje. Also is it hard to speak Serbian? You know I've heard that in Bosnia, after the Yugoslav Wars, that Bosnian Muslims (or Bosniaks) as well as Serbs in the so-called Srpska Republic in Bosnia, as well as the Croats are still pretty tense with each other. With the whole ethnic cleansing thing.