I have a lot more clue about linguistics than you barbarians do, given that our languages INVENTED linguistics 2000+ years before you barbarians even KNEW of the concept and our languages are FAR more linguistically structured than yours are. Plus i have actually studied linguistics.
I have actually studied history, only thing you have studied is ignorance.
Who the fcuk cares about WHY you are so much closer. YOU ARE CLOSER AND PRACTICALLY THE SAME language is what it is NOW. And NOW is what matters, barbarian. Your european examples only goes to show how barbaric europeans are and how primitive their concepts of kinship and ethnic bonds are. You are in an INDIAN forum here. Where people who do not even UNDERSTAND each other are in the same nation. Imagine if entire Europe was in one nation,with croatia, germany, etc. being provinces of the country of Europe, then you'd begin to understand India.
So suffice to say, you won't find many takers of your primitive monolingual european nationhood & kinship concepts here based on BS religion and nonsense.
No, NOW is not the only thing that matters, you ignorant barbarian. Identity is created by HISTORY, a concept that is apparently too difficult for your limited ass to understand. Kinship and ethnic bonds are literally what separates us from more primitive animals.
Are Irish actually Englishmen because 90% of them speak English and don't know their own language?
Does India belong to England because Indians regularly use English to speak to each other?
Europe became dominant power in the world during the 1600 - 1900 period precisely because of our "primitive and barbaric concepts of kinship and ethnic bonds". Don't try to sell me your ignorance and primitivism for superiority.
You obviously are a complete biological fail to think that every Serb or every Croat has exactly the same distribution of genetic influences. Nonetheless, your picture PROVES MY POINT : you serbs and croats are practically the SAME people, with minute differences compared to rest of Europe - who are all minute differences with each other compared to non europeans.
Hence i stand by my comment. Croats = Romanised, Catholic Serbs. nothing more.
OK, so not only you have no clue about genetics and biology, but you fail at basic logic as well. Individuals within groups differ, but that doesn't mean groups don't exist.
And you also fail at reading graphs as well, if you think my picture proves your point. Take off your fucking blindfold and look at the picture again. Let's see how many pairs I can find that are genetically closer than us and Serbs in there:
1) Austrians and Hungarians.
2) Czechs and Slovaks.
3) Serbs and Bulgarians.
4) Bulgarians and Romanians.
5) Albanians and Greeks.
6) Greeks and Turks.
7) Dutch and Belgians.
8) Germans and Dutch.
9) Germans and Belgians.
10) English and French.
So according to you, Serbs are Bulgarians. How can we be Serbs when Serbs don't exist? Oh, and Albanians are Serbs and therefore they are Bulgarians as well.
Reality is what the majority dictates. and in MY world, which is THREE TIMES bigger than the western world, your primitive monolingual, overwhelmingly dominant native ethnically driven nationhood is seen as primitive European barbarity. But then again, you barbarians have nations who's history is younger than millions of Indians' personal family lineages.
LOL. Reality doesn't give a shit what majority thinks. Only thing that majority determines... is that majority believes something. Reality has no obligation to follow whims of the ignorant.
You were less than 50% of the population in Yugoslavia. Which means you were a MINORITY. And you were a PRIVILEGED minority that your small-minded balkan trash culture lead to breakup.
Except you were privileged minority in Yugoslavia, with laws favouring you, just like muslims are privileged minority in India, with laws favouring them. So try your smallminded barbarian BS elsewhere, Catholic Serb.
Yes, being forced to abandon our own language, having all important positions taken by Serbs, having our history forcibly rewritten and our children forced to learn Serb propaganda... we were SOO privileged.
I will try to find out the phone number of reality for you. You seem to desperately need it.
You mean like literally everything you have written?
Your ethnicity is younger than my and millions of Indian's PERSONAL history. the word 'croat' is younger than that of Kulin Brahmin lineages, fyi. Hence you = noob barbarians. Nothing more.
If you were reeeaaally so suhpehrior, you wouldn't feel the need to spout bullshit about my own people.
I don't know what happened to you in life, but insulting other ethnicities is not a healthy way of curing your own inferiority complex.
Who used and use nowadays these harbours, hospitals and roads? Not only french (*) aristocrats.
(*) I'm French unlike the flag on my avatar (due to the VPN).
You should be able to change flag in your account settings.