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Narcissism of minor differences

"According to Freud, small differences between people become magnified and


classified manipulatively and destructively, especially when those people are actually
quite similar or live in close proximity to one another." (p.18) This seems to be true,
in the case of Yugoslavia where "mythical interpretations" of Christoslavism
persuaded the people of Serbia, therefore, the Serbian nationalism astray and
against each other. There are quite of few examples, in the reading that encapsulate
the history of ethnicity through religious identity of Yugoslavia but symbols, rituals,
and manipulation drew the people apart for dissimulation. The likelihood that their
were similarities in the culture, or even to say one's belief, in something, brought
attention to differences, in the similarities of the culture that entangled, or twisted
the beliefs into envy of others literally to separation of self. To live amongst each
other was no longer a thought of togetherness in unity but, a wors en outcome of
destruction, in order to relive a desire that materialize into warfare to search for
independence. Eventually, President Milosevic who initiated the discomfiture of the
mythology of Christoslavism that led the people to distance themselves fr om the
other territories was tried in court for crimes towards humanity. The magnitude of
the separation today, resembles the many tactics that excessive extremists use to
justify a cause only to be found harmful to the service of the body of people that
remain in residence.

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