My great grandfather was 1/2 Southern Croatian (From Dubrovnik) and 1/2 German. Because of where he lived, he was forced to hide his Croatian heritage, and nobody found out about it until I had my DNA tested. Even though I’m only 1/16 (6.25%) Croatian, I feel that by cooking Traditional dishes and listening to the music and engulfing myself in the history and language, I’m living out the identity he never could.
Slavic Pride definitely! Croatia has so many cool influences around it (Eastern Europe, Italy, Greece) part of what makes its history and culture so fascinating! (Im also 1/16 Polish (From Gdańsk) though a different line of my family)
Thank you so much for posting this. I’m Croatian. My people lived in a village on top of Zumberak mountain, a small village called Delivuk. My people were given the responsibility to guard the Austrian Hungarian border where they were with their lives snd any weapons they had. They didn’t have all that much trouble with the encroaching Byzantine empire. This music made me cry. My grandmother from there is always with me. I honor my ancestors as I honor all life. Let’s use this music and our will to make things better and our faith in god to work miracles. Jesus, his mother Anna and Mary Magdalene and their children are here in this beautiful country sending down their support, divine energy to remake our hearts to create Gods Kingdom of Heaven on earth.
You are a descendant of the famous Uskoks. They were soliders who moved to the hills of Žumberak from Dalmatia and still keep the traditions alive to this day
Sounds like the music in Cilipi, we enjoyed being there, hearing the Croatian music, and watching the Croatian dancers, it reminded me of when my sisters and I sang the old Croatian songs during the holidays.
@@macarthur7395 "you betrayed us" bro calm down we aint all war criminals and mass murderers, plus that happened like... Idk -some- years ago, and please, stop trying to cause drama over something that happened so long ago, these kinds of arguments just split us apart more and more 🇷🇸❤🇭🇷❤🇸🇮
I am 99% Croatian my father was Croatian my mom was Finnish! My grandparents both came directly from Croatian! I learned Croatian from them. Actually, Croatian was my first language! I am very proud of my heritage!
That’s a combination! Both Croatians & Finns had to fight bitterly through out the history, against oppression, surrounded by hostile neighbours who wanted to assimilate them. And both Finns & Croats have a lot of common values, we love nature & everything natural.
Greetings from Atlanta, Georgia, USA. I had a grandfather from Croatia, grandmother from Slovenia. I still have family who own a winery in Vivodina. This is great.
Oooh, this music stirs some primal feelings inside of my Polish soul, it seems to describe and inspire some forgotten parts of my identity... I'd love to understand why this is happening. Beautiful!
I will be visiting soon - I cannot wait to listen to the traditional folk music while enjoying my Adriatic Oysters along the coast. Such exciting times those will be. I am looking forward to it.
I'm Kurdish ,send you my warm greating from heart of Kutdistan , this beautiful music seems to be so familiar to my ears , and your dress, your dance ..
@@zealotzealot4848 its not Balkan music. Its Southern European. You can find music like this in Greece and Italy, and even in Cyprus but definitely not in Bulgaria or Serbia
Reminds me of my grandpa , he was greek but he was like a full Balkan, he knew many languages, croatian too, he also fighted for Yugoslavia in ww2 , when I listen or see croatian and slav culture I remember of him...
I've been to Croatia (mainly at the Adriatic Coast), especially in Istria, Kvarner Bay and Dalmatia. The settlements I've been to are Pula, Senj, Dubrovnik, Ston, Split and Zadar. I love it so much.❤️
@@borismisic7961 because northern europeans are taught to disregard their own country and culture, so many desperately try to identify themselves with others.
I love this music! I was born in Serbia 🇷🇸but always sided with Croatia 🇭🇷 and Slovenia 🇸🇮, am pro-EU 🇪🇺and like the more Western influence. I live in the United States now and also have citizenship of Ireland 🇮🇪.The first piece is my favourite - does anyone know the name of it? It's gentle and sounds more Austrian :)
that was most likely Dalmatian music The thing in Croatia is that we don't have one firm culture (due to historical separation of the regions) Croats have 5-6 Different cultural regions that are day and night from each other For example this video doesn't even show anything from Istria (that doesn't even share the same music scale with others) same goes for cousin as well
@@NiteDriv3r Yes but go back to ancient times. Look at the history map. Tell.me what you think about this ? m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=735136883328286&substory_index=0&id=567863176722325
There have always been two Croatians, the continental part and Dalmatia, old Dalmatians are Illyrians,and on continental part of Croatia they are Slavs , my parents are from BiH but now we live in SLAVonia
Luv croation names my dads friends artuk,branko,his brother zarko, lubjko, milenko, his neighbor stanka ,jozo,marko, and of course my dad franjo and mom vila😅
Nah, the serbs actually didnt hate you until you started performing genocides on them because of your jelousy for our history and culture then after you did that serbs started hating you for obvious reasons.
Actually, before the Croats did anything, the Serbs started talking about ethnically cleansing the Croatians. They basically viewed Croats as filthy. Yes, some Croatians did terrible things that I do not support, but let’s just be clear that the Serbs said some nasty crap about the Croats before the Croats even did anything.
@@hayley3680 so you are comparing saying something to actually commiting genocides and killing around 800 000 serbs 500 000 in camps alone? If u are comparing that then idk
No, I’m just correcting you. The Serbs despised Croats before Croats did anything wrong to them. Plus, Serbian police were awful towards Croatians before the Croatians laid a finger on them. Both sides did terrible things. I just feel bad for the innocent people on both sides who were involved.
Ethnicity is about culture, language and history. Mixing it with genetics (which yes, Croats are mixed AF) is incorrect. And there is some connection between Slavic nations. Sure it's not some strong connection that can stop wars (like we're seeing today) but I, and a lot of other people, do feel some affinity towards other Slavic nations that we just don't get towards others
