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Subject: Artinfo Digest, Vol 50, Issue 16
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:59:00 +0200
From: "Ivo Skoric" <vze3c9dm la verizon.net> (by way of Janos Sugar)
Subject: [artinfo] New Monuments in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia
To: intermedia-l la c3.hu


There is a new trend in monument buildings in the countries of former
Yugoslavia. After the wars that aimed to erradicate the multi-
cultural character of the former society, now the monuments are built
in celebration of that very character to globally recognized
imaginary heroes that fight for justice and protect the innocent:
Bruce Lee in Mostar (Bosnia), Rocky Balboa in Zitiste (Serbia),
Winettou in Plitvice (Croatia), Tarzan in Medja (Serbia) - birthplace
of Jonny Weismueller, and Samantha Fox (before breast-reduction) in
Cacak, the capital of Serbian country music. Significantly, the only
place where such a monument faces desacration and vandalism is Mostar
in Bosnia, also the only place still with multi-ethnic population. Is
it so that Balkanians can accept theoretical multi-culturalism only
once they practically destroy traces of culture of "others" around them?

(article in Croatian)
http://www.h-alter.org/index.php?page=article&id=4996#hot


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