I was speaking with a Bosnian Croat today who had graduated from University with a history degree. We discussed the ability to write about history from an impartial standpoint. After a while the subject turned to the most recent badness around here and he became very pointed. Be watchful of English journalists, and there isn’t much that is impartial. After a while I realized that I was speaking to a Bosnian Croat and that he was indeed speaking in that function. So here inside the Balkan bubble, there is no such thing as impartiality, only nationalistic opinion.
Then I spent a great 5 hours talking to the owner of my flat, an Irishman who has lived here for four years. We both agreed that the locals were a bunch of nutters who had no sense of history or possibilities of a future. This is the logic: If you offered a local 10 dollars a day to work for you he would. Then say, ‘I am paying you 1000 dollars at the end of the month instead of 10 a day’, he would take the daily wage first. Nutters.
More work tomorrow, then, I hope, more work all week before I go back to Sarajevo this weekend for the Run Against Drugs being sponsored by the US Consulate. More to come…
Johnnyboy
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