[Arthur Gordon Pym]

Originally Posted by Ostrogorski

What should have I wrote? 2 different churches? Just don't tell me that you buy that crap...

Except Church architecture and some political institutions that we adopted through receiving of (Orthodox) Christianity, I really don't see what do we share with Rome?

I think Mynydd, when he said Romanitas, was referring to the Christian civilization of the later Rome (itself a sythesis of Hellenism, Christianity and Roman law), which then later gave birth to the Roman Catholic and the Byzantine (Greek) Orthodox cultures.

Originally Posted by Ostrogorski

Or what do we share with each other?

I don't think that we should be particularly close, I abhor any forced "bortherhood" (God forbid!) For me Serbs are just a neighbouring nation, on the same level as Italians, Hungarians or a Slovenians. But neither I think that our natural state is that of eternal warfare with each other (something that you think), till the disappearnce of one or the other element.

Originally Posted by Ostrogorski

I would rather note the biological and/or ethnic similarity than anything else.

There is something to it, the common South Slavic and especially Dinaric stock. However, nations are not determined solely by biological factors, but by shared history, culture etc.

Originally Posted by Ostrogorski

Their chief general- Agim Ceku -was also an officer in Croatian army.

Yes, so what? Before that he was an officer of the Yugoslav People's Army (the army of the defunct Comunist Yugoslavia).

Originally Posted by Ostrogorski

No wonder many Croats cheer for them.

Most are completetly indifferent to the issue.