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What other Europeans think about Slovenes. Click to enlarge.
Where do the Balkans begin? For the Austrian chancellor Klemens
Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Metternich-Winneberg-Beilstein (or
"Metternich" for short) the Balkans began at the Rennweg in Vienna and stretched down from there.
Today, Slovenes take great exception to being called "Balkan," to the point of considering it an insult. Considering that "Balkanize" has entered the English dictionary as a decidedly negative term, who can blame them?
Two years ago, the alternative Russian paper the eXile published 18 Ways to Hate Your Neighbor, which included this large chart demonstrating the stereotypes Europeans have about each other. Slovenia appears in the Balkan group, where it rates every other country as NRE — not really European. As anyone who has spent time here can tell you, that’s not too far off target.
