Hey everyone! We're back to the series that's been long incoming. I decided to showcase Turkey in the video; while only the West part of Turkey is considered Balkan, the word "Balkan" is actually Turkish and means mountains. I felt it would be more fun to include Turkey in the mix! Also we make a mistake at one instance in the video; editing slip up - this happens as you can probably imagine. We are not AI machines making these videos - please keep that in mind. By the way, if you're interested in buying a Balkan themed gift for a friend - check out the DBB merch store here and use the code BEYONDBORDERS to get 20% off. marina-1-shop.fourthwall.com
Some of them, like Andrei, Zeljka, are recent arrivals and it shows, they are still quite tolerant and humble. But the others who have grown and/or studied in Canada/USA are basically neo-nazis.
Alexi S....as an Albanian who grew up in a country where we don't have many stereotypes for neighbours I've always known that all Balkan countries have a much larger Gypsy population than Albania...in greece for example the majority of them have become greeks ....
@@lagjescuni5482 Also I forgot to mention that Greeks do not view Albanians as Gypsies either. Despite some of the rivalries between us I have never heard any Greek refer to Albanians as such. I don't know where she got that from. No Gypsies living in Greece are not assimilated at all. They very much keep to themselves just like in the other Balkan nations.
Most (not all) of the participants on this show are usually from the diaspora born and raised in Canada and it shows. They are very disconnected from the actual mindsets of the people still living there
This is what corrupt government do to people. Not only they turn us against each other but make others leave. I mean Balkans are far from the most corrupt places in the world but for Europe we want the same standards as Western and Northern Europe if you know what I mean.
@partizan641 as a greek Canadian I found her embarrassing. Not saying the rest of the people were representative, just that I didn't feel she represented Greeks at all.
I know right... If they were americans I would understand, but seriously, every balkan country has their fair share of gypsies, so acting that ignorant is just plain annoying.
@@Zdamaneta Exactly. It's always funny to me seeing Romanians thinking we're "brothers" of Western Latin countries (Spain, France, Italy) because of our language (which also led to a lot of Romanian artists singing in their language and claiming to be Latinos, absolute cringe💀); when in reality, what they think of us is that we're begging/thieving Gypsies (and add to that prostitutes if you're a woman). Likewise, the ones thinking Serbs or Bulgarians are their "brothers" are also delusional (not as much as the ones I mentioned first, but still). They don't have a "good" image of us like the Portuguese in Spain (and viceversa) where they know they are very similar culturally; or likewise how Norwegians would be seen in Sweden or Denmark. No, our situation is different, because our neighbours either think we're all Roma and live in an absolute shithole country (they probably think we live like the people from Borat) or they claim the "few white European" Romanians (they think they exist) and say that those are just Romanianised Slavs. The only "friends" we have are Moldovans, and even them can be quite something sometimes.
@Marius-Dumitru Catrinoiu look at the second video, you can clearly see how they don't know anything about Romania and how they all answered Romania when asked which country has no mcdonalds and is the poorest in Europe.
I'm glad that the Serbian girl said about the Romanians that are nice people. Yes, they are! I am from eastern Serbia, my home have a view on Romanian side, and we can talk Romanian and understand them. Long time ago there were a lot of Romanians in my area, I grew up with one in the house who helped my grandfather with farming. When we were in crisis, Romanians brought clothes, food and sold them to us, they never tried to beat us with the prices, because we are in crisis, on the contrary! Many people in eastern Serbia have family or roots in Romania. Many women married Serbs and stayed in Serbia. So, Romanians are a hardworking and honorable people, everyone I met has a good soul. People in my area think the same! We still remember some who went further in search of a better life. Maybe people in the rest of Serbia don't know Romanians that much, which is logical because they don't share a border with them. I also want to say that they are very hardworking and honorable people. We lived well with Romanians! 🇷🇸🇷🇴
Most of Serbs except maybe south and parts of western Serbia,know that Romanians are good people and big majority of Serbia and Serbs look at them as friendly nation,we like them
I think they are definitely more than 3% lol literally every big romanian city has at least one gypsy neighborhood/slum and this is coming from a hungarian we also have alot of gypsies. I think we have a higher precentage of gypsy population but romania has more because it has a bigger total population
@@streettravelxxi yeah bud, you can feel however you want, they makeup, up less than 3% of the population, and it's one of the lowest populations of gypsies in the world....Noshit they're concentrated in areas, that's their entire point....
@@katerinat.3258 She s also probably not raised in Greece? I don't understand why people of greek families abroad assume they could represent all greeks? There is much we don't have in common. Like, I am not saying they are less greek, as even within the country different areas have different experiences, customs, views... just it is easier for us to aknowledge what's panhellenic rather than something very local to our community. I am too lazy to write a new comment so here: Overall greeks tend to forget they are from the balkans, and connect more with rest of southern europe such us Italy or Spain. Also, on subconcious we believe we are better than the rest of balkans. Especially with the ones we share borders with it's a mutual love-hate situation. For Serbs and Romanians we feel neutral to positive, depending who you ask. Also, I don't understand the lady from North Macedonia. How can you be surprized to feel at home in Albania when your own country is 50% Albanians. That's so so strange. Unless she meant something else? If you are reading this, please know that the way you use phrases like "Macedonian, Greek macedonians or Thessaloniki part of Macedonia" is at the very least triggering. When you visit a country it's generally not a good idea to claim their land :)
Yes,that's allright mostly we call the albanians,turkalbanians not gypsies
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Actually they are wrong, Gypsies have nothing to do with Romania. Roma (Gypsies) originated in the Punjab region of northern India as a nomadic people and entered Europe between the eighth and tenth centuries C.E. They were called "Gypsies" because Europeans mistakenly believed they came from Egypt. People don't pay attention to history.
I literally can't believe there are people who think romania and gypsies are related wtf💀 it's alarming because we STILL need to explain this to some i.gnorants who don't want to learn basic knowledge.💀
Further evidence that Romanians don't have "brothers" and that we're pretty much alone in Europe. It's over when shittier countries than yours (and, likewise, countries with a similar or even higher Roma population) think their country is actually better lol. The funniest thing to me is that the women who were like "Gypsies, Gypsies, c'mon" will probably later go to a Black Lives Matter protest or have "✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿" in their bios. Eastern Europeans (and here, I'd include even us Romanians) will be very vocal about someone being racist or prejudiced against them (bet that if they were called Russians they would get instantly offended lol but hey, Romanians are still "Gypsies" despite having almost nothing in common); but will say nothing or even participate in their own country's ethnic issues (or, really, any social issue their country might face). Funniest thing to me was the N. Macedonian and the Bulgarian chicks, when their country is much more Roma and more Roma influenced than Romania lol. And I'd say something about the Greek chick but meh, she was rude to pretty much everybody so whatever xd
The greek woman does not represent greeks. Everyone in the comments said that in greece we do not call the serbs as gypsies we call them as our brothers. Neither we call albanians as gypsies. All this she made up from her head. Of course we know that gypsies came to the balkans from india that the turks brought them during the turkish occupation and invasion of the balkans. Of course we know balkan nations are not gypsies!!!!
don't fall for their propaganda. the Greek woman really does not represent Greece. especially here in Greece we love the Romanians. most of us have Romanian friends. I personally got really pissed off with this girl!
So true brother 🙌🏻, they re uneducated what can you ask for people that live in 3rd world countries that still don’t know the difference between Romanians and roma people, everyone mistake us with them just bc of the name, they look look different from us, HAVE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE, their own culture, their own traditional costume literally different from what us romanians have but yet we are still gypsies 🤣🤣 also I live in Bristol Uk and I never met a gypsie Romanian by now, but I have met loads of Bulgarians gypsies and White Bulgarians and despite having their differences I can’t distinguish which is which bc physically look the same 😂
@@lejlahodzic1537 strasno je ajde da su pogresili samo mapu , nego i teritoriju. Jos je na sve to receno da je greska pri editovanju, a ocigledna greska je ta sto nisu edukovani o temi na koju zele ocigledno ili da uzdignu svoj kanal ili da zarade. Drugog nema
@@Любовь-в1м9ф Upravu si, ovo je strasno. Ja ovo nemogu da razumjem. Valjda se posle editovanja i pregleda još jednom video, ali eto ili nisu pregledali ili im je bilo mrsko ispraviti.
Alexandra has it all wrong. Greeks never say serbs are gypsies. Greeks say serbs are brothers. Greeks also never say albanians are gypsies. As for turkish cuisine i find it is more closer to the georgian and persian one than to greek one.
Georgian and Persian? All Balkan lands lived under the Turks for 400-500 years. This includes Georgia and Iran. Turkish culture and food spread to Europe, Asia and Africa. I guess you have never been to Turkey, but especially the Aegean region is no different from the Greeks in terms of the appearance of the peoples and food.
@@zzerenity not really. The greek islands are not representative of mainland greece that is very balkan. Nothing to do with turkey. First of all turks are not one nation but many islamized nations glued together as " turks" by kemal attaturk.
@@zzerenity greeks and turks do not cluster together in dna tests. Greeks in dna tests share the same dna as south italians. Google it. And i do not have time for your nonsensea
What is Alexandra talking about......she said that we have been told that Serbs are Gypsies , than Romanians and than Albanians!! She must have grow up in a really weird house! Meanwhile every Greek knows that the real Gypsies are the fans of PAOK
@@Invisiboots turks who have flooded the comments while the subject is greek cuisine. They try to say greek cuisine equals turkish which is far far from truth. Turkish cuisine shares the majority of its dishes with persian (dorduma, tzatzik, kebab, pilaf, various flat breads etc) and caucasus cuisine (lechmatzoun, kachapuri aka peinirli etc). Greek dishes like plastos batzina pastitsio ladenia spanakopitta horiatiko loukaniko etc do not exist in turkey. Hand picking some dishes to say greek cuisine equals turkish is false and wrong.
@@Invisiboots we never say serbs are gypsies we say greeks and serbs are brothers. Where you heard from a greek that serbs are gypsies. Why you say such things on a video?
@@Invisiboots Greece and all the balkans has gypsies from the ottoman empire as the turks brought in slaves from punjab india pakistan in the middle ages who became the gypsies. No greek says serbs are gypsies no greek says albanians are gypsies.
As a Serb with some family roots from Crete and Kastoria, I have never heard anything negative about Serbs from my Greek friends especially that they compare us with Gypsies, also from Serbs I only heard the best about Greeks and I know that for many Serbs the favorite country after Serbia is Greece
@@fightingstatus-IQ serbs are not slavs. They just speak a slavic language. By blood they are balkan. We in România have more slavic blood than Any other south slavic country but we speak a latin language.
y'all should've brought people that actually know stuff about those countries and not just stereotypes. looking at that girl that screamed gypsies the moment she heard Romania 🙄🙄🙄
What did you expect from a croatian, I doubt they know anything else. But same could be said about all europeans, they don't know anything about us Romanians, only about gypsies.
As a Turk from Europe. It's kinda messed up that Romania gets so much hate. Every Romanian I've met has been extremely kind and respectful. In general I feel like despite prejudices Balkan people when they meet abroad are friendly with each other. But Romanians are some of the kindest people and I feel like it's sad people are so prejudiced towards them. And I'm a little surprised that Balkan people abroad are this prejudiced towards each other. In my experience they actually all gravitate to each other and it's like very normal to see s second or third generation Serbian and Bosnian in the Netherlands be best friends lol
Don't act like romanians care about slavs and westoid's opinions about them, like, only i.gnorants who know nothing about Romania associate us with gipsies. So, i.gnorants opinions don't matter.
Romania has parts of its national territory that are found in the historical Balkans. The problem is different! The peoples of the Balkans have a visceral hatred towards the Romanians. Romanian culture had and has a major contribution in affirming the identity of the Aromanians/Vlachs/Makedo-Romanians/Istro-Romanians in the Balkans. And this is very depressing for the Balkan countries that feel "bit on the hat" for the pitiful way of trying to assimilate them. Do not forget that the south of Romania is called Wallachia (land of the Vlachs). The political leaders of the Balkan countries make propaganda and deliberately induce among their own citizens tendentious, biased, and ill-intentioned concepts about the Romanian people as if they were a people of gypsies. For it to be denigrated and disregarded and, thus, to be destroyed, and its vibrant culture to be assimilated by other "deserving countries". Do not forget that the Romanians had major contributions to forming some states in the Balkans. As thanks, they only knew how to demigrate and humiliate the Romanian people. Shame on you!
No one in Bulgaria think, that the romanians are gypsies! We know, that in Romania is a lange group of gypsies, but they are not the romanians. And bulgarian trains are much better than the albanian trains. So this romanian from video is wrong.
@@GholaTleilaxu This is a very normal bulgarian train, with Siemens brand new lok, with air coditioned cars, with restaurant car. ru-vid.comfTAccGXAlzI
Apparently Romania is the least known country from what I noticed, all they know is negative stuff and gypsies even though they are under 10% of the total population of Romania. If we wouldn't have the gypsy minority to create a negative image for our country, nobody would know anything about Romania, it would be like a big question mark... we would probably be as unknown as Lichtenstein, Latvia or Andorra...
French/Portuguese here ! I absolutely love Romania ! I hope I'll have the opportunity to go back someday to visit other parts of the country. The food is amazing, the best i've had in central eastern europe (along with hungarian cuisine). The architecture and the cities : Sinaia's castle, Brasov, Sibiu, Sighisoara, Prejmer and lots of cute little villages I don't remember the name of. Everything amazing ! Your country is underrated, it's a fact. People, go to Romania, you won't be disappointed !
@@cn9114 we are just as unknown to Eastern Europeans or Central Europeans, nobody knows anything about us in Europe, they only know about gypsyies and their stereotypes which they are applied to us and our country. We Romanians don't even have stereotypes, that's how unknown we are... 😂
During Communism, Bulgaria was one of the few destinations Romanian were allowed to visit. My father did not travel much but he visited Bulgaria. He brought back, home, a lot of silver coins. Did you know that Bulgaria had silver coins in the 70s?
@@adinamedrea5303 if you ware part of the Soviet block you could visit only other fellow Soviet block countries, the same goes for the Western ones at the time as well (after all the iron curtain was their own idea), but I mean come on, being denied from visiting France/USA dosen't quite hit the same as being denied from visiting Russia/Belarus. Interestingly enough people could also visit some Asian countries like Vietnam & China, but people waren't exactly found of the idea for couple of reasons.
Immigrants from these countries have the mindset of '80s and '90s europeans 😂😂😂 Their mindset is so different from the modern european which bombarded with information changes every year, I look at me for example
1) - Romania is NOT a Balkan country 2) - some Balkan people call us as Gypsy, but what they don't know is that THEY look and behave more like Gypsy than us. Never forget that the Gypsies arrived to Romania (first historical document mentions them in Southern Romania in 1385) from the Balkans, Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. And the Romanian word for Gypsies is "țigan" (read as "tsigahn") as a derivation of the Greek word "Athinganos" (plural : "Athinganoi") = Indo-Greeks (Byzantines). They have been brought to us by the Greek monks as monastery slaves in the 14-15 century. They also arrives from the East as slaves brought by the Tatars. The Gypsies (Hindu) left India around the year 400 AD migrating to the West. Nobody knows for sure the reason they left their original place, India. 3) - the Gypsy myth about Romanians show how ignorant they are, also the Westerners. I met a British man in 1999 saying to me that Romania comes from Roma people. When I told him that Romania comes from Roma (Italy) and Romans, he was like mind blocked (lack of history knowledge). 4) - the truth is that most of the people, no matter their origin, they are really ignorant about their neighbours or other people, they live on myths.
@@balkanwitch5747 - 1 - you are wrong; tell to the Northern Romanians they are Balkan people and you'll get...SH_T 2 - you mislead YT readers 3 - you ignore some geographical settings made by professional geographers 4 - some people include Hungary and Moldavia in the Balkan countries...wait to hear the Hungarians' opinion ! 5 - some geographers consider as Balkan area the line from Ljubljana (Slovenia) to Vama Veche (Romania), while others to Kilia Danube's branch. In this last case, ONLY the Southern Romania would be part of the Balkan area. 6 - you may consider yourself whatever you want, but don't make it a geographical rule.
@SBM0001 - you don't know what you're talking about. The most present and obvious CERTITUDE IS our language, much closer to Latin than any other Latin language in our days. What else do we need to prove our heritage ? Iy;s a clear fact as it is in France, Spain and Portugal. In fact, you are talking about some tendentious debate regarding our continuity, some guys have INTERESTES saying we haven't Roman descendance (i.g : Russians say to Moldavians they are not Romanians, but Moldavians. The Sebs say to Romanians in Serbia that they are not Romanians, but Vlachs which acctually is the same). Hangarians also lie about our heritage. All perverse INTERESTS. Talking about the Westerners, they know almost nothing about themselves, so what else could they know about us ? Why do you think all these debate is ONLY about the Romanians in the whole Europe ? Do you know that most of the ancient texts about Dacians (us) have been...lost ? The Roman Emperor Trajan wrote a book about his wars in Dacia : "The Commentarii de bellis Dacicis / Comments on the Dacian wars"...the chapters about Dacians are missing..."lost". Isn't that strange, and I can give you another 20-30 examples. SOMEBODY wants us...lost. In Romania, for c. 20 yeras is a struggle to implement the English language as a current language in Romania, losing OUR national language. WHY ? WHO is behid that ?
I find it ironic and hypocritical that these nations, which have a higher percentage of gypsies than Romania, consider Romanians gypsies. The Balkans will never be united, not because of the Americans or as some here claim, but because of ignorance, lack of education and often ill will. Most of the time, mass media and politics create problems and toxic misinformation. 1. In Romania there are between 3%-5% Gypsies. 2. Romania is poor compared to the rich EU countries, but much richer than the Balkan countries. 3. I think that Romania's relationship with Poland is better than with the Balkans, who don't even know each other and treat each other as gypsies. If these words came from the British, who are on the other side of Europe, I would understand, but they come from the Balkans, who have the same problem with this ethnic group. You really don't know that gypsies come from India and that they are just a nomadic minority?!
Its a only a local tale nothing more nothing less. As a Bulgarian i love Romania in fact since i live in Pleven there is a village called Debovo which as a kid my grandparents would speak the aromanian language with neighbors since Vlachs use to live there a long time ago. I find that fascinating how Bulgarians would speak a Vlach language, and the fact the favore dish for many people from Debovo is "moare de peşte" it means that no one truly hates people from Romania. There is no ignorance, lack of education and often ill will, its just a saying that many associate with the wrong words. Bulgarians and Romanians are like brother and sister, i mean Ruse (little vienna) literally has a boat that you can take to the Romania. Dont take everything you see on the internet as truth. To a lot of people the only thing that unites someone and makes them feel at home is finding someone from the balkans in a foreign country. I would be so happy if i meet someone who is close to my country and would treat them with respect. In the end of the day we are all brothers and sisters.
My mom spoke Albanian even though she was born in a Greek village. Everyone spoke Albanian in her village. My grandma spoke only Albanian when she married my grandpa. He taught her how to speak Greek.
Serbian girl: “I think that from all Yugoslavian countries everybody wants to be serbians” Literally all Croatians, Bosniaks, Slovenians, Macedonians, Albanians, Hungarians: thanks, but no thanks.
Hungary wasn' t part of Yugoslavia, and neither Albania. What you people learn in your schools? Btw, this people are more Americans. Her statment was stupid, just like yours. Becuase for us Serbian is insult to someone compare us with Croatians, especially with Albanians, we don't have anything in common.
Тя е българка... Пак тая политика, че дето се родила на македонска земя, откъснала се от България, станала ми македонка... По тая логика Тракия и Мизия трябваше да са се откъснали... Поне се радвам, че не е промита глава, да мисли като повечето сърбомани у там!
The special connection is - different countries, different ethnicities, different history and different culture - all in al it has to be said that Macedonia survived Bulgarian fascism and Bulgarization. Macedonians are much closer to other neighbors than Bulgarians.
Shocked and disgusted at these people's ignorance about Romania. @DatingBeyondBorders by broadcasting this as it is, you're contributing to the misinformation.
Guys, I'm german. I grew up with a LOT of prejudices towards people from eastern europe (basically everything from Poland southwards) and especially Romania taught by elders and adults. As I grew older I questioned these prejudices more and more. When I started working blue-collar, every single prejudice got whiped away. There are soooo many people from the Balkans working blue-collar in Germany and most of which I met were the most heart warming people. As I love traveling by train, I visited Croatia and Poland. Both times people were very welcoming. Romania is now on my bucket list. Can't believe how such beautiful and rich cultures get such a bad reputation through only a few bad people. 🇩🇪 🇭🇷 🇷🇴 🇵🇱
Alexandra is great however she doesn't seem to be a good representative of a Greek person from Greece. It's obvious that she hasn't grown up or even lived for very long in Greece. They could've used a more local person tbh. No hate Alex you're gorgeous!
Turkey is indeed a part of Balkan, not only genetically or geographically but also culturally. I'm not saying all Turkey, of course, east of Turkey is very different from the west of Turkey. East is Middle Eastern, west is more East European. Thanks for including Turkey. I think the debate on whether or not Turkey is Balkan, is quite unneccessarry. We have more Albanians in Turkey than in Albania, that alone makes Turkey partially Balkan. I'm a 3rd gen immigrant myself. There are millions of people like me. We still have the culture and everything. I love being Balkan, I'm a proud Balkan.
@@oguzhankartal5099 It's because Izmir and Eskisehir has majority balkan immigrant population.It's not a special stuff for these 2 cities.Almost all western anatolia have same sitution,people say it's only %3 balkan bla bla bla but they miss the part that the people located in western anatolia are already Balkan or Eastern European immigrants.
@@AtakanBerkBrant The only significant immigrant population in Izmir may be Istanbul immigrants and there are Tatar immigrants in Eskişehir not balkan immigrant. Albanians and Bosnian Muslims are not very liberal and they are generally pro-Erdogan. The region where Bulgarian Turks live is Thrace (Edirne, Tekirdağ etc.).
@@AtakanBerkBrant You can imagine that there are 20 million Balkan immigrants in the country, but the truth is in the link I posted. - atamdergi.gov.tr/tam-metin/92/tur#:~:text=ANKARA%27YA%20YERLEŞTİRİLEN%20BALKAN%20GÖÇMENLERİ%20(1923-1990)&text=Geriye%20kalan%20344.000%20göçmen%20ise,Bulgaristan%27dan%20gelen%20Türkler%20oluşturmaktadır
I would say that Western Turkey is very South-East European, therefore Balkan. After all, Turkish culture was very widespread in the region during the Ottoman times.
Only Bucharest has a total GDP twice that of Macedonia and Bosnia combined! And with 2 times smaller population, the capital of Romania. There are 2 very poor countries, proof of the culture... Many Macedonians don't prove they are Macedonians! And with Bosnians, I am used to, they are invisible at anything but hate.
@@adamnagy42325 Bosnia and Herzegovina is even more corrupt than Bulgaria, knowing that 3 presidents from 3 ''different'' ethnicity they rule. No wonder why even if they want, they can't be in EU.
The people who were doing these interviews live in West, probably were even born there. They picked up the ignorance and everything that West offers. Don't let their hate fuel you our beautiful neighbour. The myth here in Serbia is that gypsies are Indian and not Romanian, we held a long history with Romanian brothers, till this day Vlach people still live in Serbian territory peacefully. We remember the 90's, we remember how you didn't allow train full of NATO's military equipment to go through Romania, we remember you not recognizing Kosovo and we appreciate you. The only country we didn't go through war with. Love from Serbia to our brotherly Romanian people
Exactly ! Plus we greeks lived 1000 years with the Romans....so we are more close to italians and the slavs than to turks. Turks say such things because they always want to compare themselves to us while we in fact do not care a bit about them.
my friend turkey don't need to compare themselves with greeks, don't worry. You can open the map and see how many cultures we are in touch. And turkish roots are so broad from Mongolia to Hungary, so think twice about your comment. lovely greetings
@@delihikmet4409 yet you did not rule. You invaded a foreign country that was already on the verge of collapse due to civil wars. During your invasion and occupation of the country you put quisling pashas mainly albanians against who the local population has revolted more than 100 times. Every year you had revolutions against you just it wasnt nationwide. Once it was nationwide you were ousted outside greece. And as a matter of fact it would have been better if you had been ousted back to mongolia from where you came from. Since you are not pleased with the greek lands you got to keep and now you want even the greek islands lol!!!! I mean does this ever end? Will you?
Andrei didn't get to talk about his country. Antoaneta's comments about how the Romanian people are nice people is echoed in a lovely video Rick Steves did a few years ago.
That one dude’s rant about terrible trains was the best (and most helpful) part 😂 Avoid trains in Bulgaria, noted. I’ll take a 20 minute horse ride instead lol! 🚂
haha i swear one summer i went back to Bulgaria and took the train and my parents wanted to get first class instead of the regular class. Turns out its the same thing and equally bad haha, the toilet has a hole and can see the train tracks. Although i did enjoy going from my hometown of Pleven to Varna and sightseeing throughout the journey.
@@Ελλάδα-ω3θ Balkan is indeed a Turkish word. I'm Greek and I know that both those countries are part of the balkan peninsula. The difference is that they only belong partially in the balkan region.
How to be offended? The combined GDPs of Bosnia and Macedonia are half of Bucharest, the capital of Romania (Bucharest with 2 and a half less population). I am speaking only about the Romanian capital, lol... Bosnians are known as biggest haters and very frustrated people, while the Macedonians I have met lately dozens of them are proving me they are not Macedonians!
@@constantinvalentina2183 The Balkans do not deserve Romania as a neighbor, Romania should be geographically together with its Latin brothers, we would treat them better. (Italy, Spain, Portugal and France)
I love these videos, they are always interesting. I'm French and I've never visited Balkan countries, except if Greece and Turkey are counted in them. I haven't actually met people from Croatia or Serbia, but I have the other nations. I even had a penfriend in Bulgaria when I was young during the communist era. In France, we consider Romania a sister culture. All the Romanian people I met were always super nice and well educated. Rromani people are a very different people to Romanians and that is usually very clear for French people. France also has its own gypsies traditionally in the South of France, famous for their music, like is the case in Spain, and they are called Manouches. Romania to me evokes primarily Ionesco, Inna and Nadia Comăneci, as well as beautiful blouses. Bulgaria to me evokes roses, Bulgarian Voices singers, elaborate nosiyas and the creation of the cyrillic alphabet. Serbia is the land of Vesna Vulović and Nikola Tesla. Croatia gave us the word "cravatte" (for necktie) and was already a popular seaside destination with French tourists during Yugoslavian times. North Macedonia is less well-known except for its exquisite feta that became quite popular at least in Paris when many ex-Yugoslavs took refuge in France. One of my best friends is half Bosnian, one of my best neighbours Albanian. I traveled to Greece and Turkey several times and loved both places. I wish to visit all the other ones.
@@CanisXYZ geographically is Greece in Balkan Peninsula but is not a Balkan country as it comes to culture , history , language , economy , way of living , character of people , etc …..
I am a Greek guy and I am so sorry for all the stereotypes regarding Romania and Romanian people. Your country is beautiful, food is great and people are stunning!
@@DianaFrench-nr4hp You should come and visit! I've been to Bacau and Bucharest in Romania and I loved it! My favourite water - yes water- is from romania, called Aqua Carpatica!!
I am a Greek and here pondering if she is an agent. 29 years and I haven't heard anyone call Serbs nor Albanians gypsies, where the heck does she live?
I’m a Romani (Gypsy) originally from Bulgaria 🇧🇬 but was adopted by an American family and officially American. I did a dna test to see what I am ethnically, and I’m mostly Greek and south Italian and some Indian and some Eastern European. Bet that everyone in this video is some if not all mixed with other ethnicities. I’m officially offended by everyone in this video downplaying the so called “gypsy” and hinting at the “Gypsy” Romani people in or as a negative connotation on this subject.
I understand your frustration, however be aware that you live far away and do not know the realities in this area anylonger. Gypsies are indeed looked down at in all Balkan countries. People tend to stay away from them, children are advised to avoid them as much as possible. But this is not because they are gypsies, i.e. they belong to an ethnic group and have some indian origin. No, this happens because their behaviours .They refuse to educate and then integrate into the society, they continue to be their way and that way is far from what is accepted by society. No gypsy who is integrated into the society is looked down at just because he might have a browner skin, people would not even note that as we are generally dark skinned ourselves (compared to western people)
Propably because the romani aka the gypsies used to abduct babies from the balkans and raised as their own. That explains your greek and eastern european dna. Your original dna is indian. Just you had admixture from the balkans when your gypsy ancestors came from india to the balkans as slaves of the turks. Even today gypsies steal european kids in the balkans . There has been the case of small ben is kos in greece propably abducted by gyspies. The fairer the kid the more chance he has to be stolen.
@@codrinpetrescu1555 exactly. His greek and eastern european admixture is because some of his indian aka gypsy ancestors have stolen some balkan kids..
You're gypsy by blood not by culture. If you weren't adopted you'd be robbing people and setting up caravans in people's backyards just like your people do currently. There's a reason they're hated - Luckily for you, you weren't born in that culture so you don't share blame. No sweat; Don't be offended since you're not guilty of their crimes.
Yeah, cause most gypsies in Eastern Europe refuse to integrate or get educated, all they do is steal, beg etc. so of course they don't have a good reputation.
I am Romanian, lately in my city, Bucharest I saw more Ukrainians than gypsy. I think most of gypsy went for the west. But anyhow they are known as a nomadic people.
Romania is not a balkan country. The term "balkan" had been coined by the turks to describe the mountainous area from within the Ottoman empire; please note, the Romanian principalities were never part of it.
@@Marina40935 Actually good part of Romanians and Hungarians are closer genetically than you know, or perhaps even want to know. After all, 1000 years of cohabitation is a millennium. I'm talking about HUNgarians, not the Austro-Germans and Slavs who were magyarised during the centuries.
I can't believe how easily Romanians are called gypsies, this shows me the lack of education and insensitivity of others. While all the Europeans campaign falsely for the lack of discrimination and racism, instead throwing stones at the Gypsies, we Romanians are the ones who have accepted them into the community and tried to integrate them, while everyone is driving them away. First of all, Gypsies are originally from India, they are spread all over the globe. Gypsies are a minority ethnicity in Romania, and it is different from the Romanian ethnicity. Many gypsies have adapted to today's society and are very ok people, but they are still a part that refuses integration, education and with which we also have problems in Romania, not only Europe. Secondly, emphasis has always been placed on what the gypsies in Romania have done negatively in other countries, of course we will not talk about so many Romanians who work honestly abroad, who do good and beautiful things wherever they go. Before you start spouting nonsense, better inform yourself, don't speak from stories and what others say.
1. Just to confirm what has already been mentioned: No-one calls the Serbians gypsies in Greece. 2. No-one calls Albanians gypsies in Greece. 3. In fact, I can’t remember anyone calling any Romanian gypsy in Greece, or associate them in any way. It was much later in my life that I learned that there is a relatively big population of them in Romania. 4. For the girl from North Macedonia who loves Bulgaria. You look very surprised, no-one has told you you are basically the same nation? 5. There isn’t Bulgarian feta or any other feta apart from Greek feta. There are other white cheeses produced in Bulgaria and Turkey, that I am sure they are delicious and I would try them if I wasn’t so obsessed and eating everything with feta. So leave the feta alone please! 6. The Greek girl should have left the country when she was really young. Greece is a 100% balkan country, we are all bad drivers, the food is similar, we avoid paying taxes and then blame the government, dances are similar, we look similar. So at the end when we all hate our neighbors, it’s like we hate ourselves, which we all do as well.
There are too many greeks suffering from self hatred, no lies!! I noticed too many greeks are dealing with this very deep existential question if they are a balkan country and deep inside they would like to be like Spain and italy or even germany( germany that f##@@@ greece too much) i am a serb and i notice this mental issue among many greeks on the internet. They see Balkan people as inferior and react toxic on balkan video 's that promote some simularities between balkan countries. So its a shame to be balkan while its not a shame to be an american or a spanish Who killed too many people on this planet and commit many crimes, but balkan people somehow are perceived as a big threat to greek people. GREEKS cant breath because of balkan people? Whats the explanation of this hatred towards the Balkans? Balkan people even visit greece and spend money there in summer, still you despise us, and i know it. So whats the psychological explanation of all this, consuming too much massmedia? Who feeds your fear and insecurities? Is it self hatred? Tell me.🎉
@@zaidafifkhudhaiyer1502 I mean, to be honest Modric is whole other level than all the others. No one thinks of Samaras when someone says Greece but many people would think of Modric when we say Croatia
Respect the Bosnian guy for telling the truth about Albanians, I'm quarter Bosnian too. I can tell you that Bosnians are the most honest people in Balkan
As a Greek 🇬🇷 I confirm that we love Serbia Bulgaria Romania Montenegro. Never heard a Greek have a negative opinion for those especially for Serbs. 🇬🇷💙🤍
@@Ίων-π8ρ I am Greek American 🇺🇸🇬🇷 We are not brothers at all They are Slavic people, we are Latin people They think very different from us and we don't have their language Greek DNA is relative with Italy and Romania
@@kdexter2690 You Are not Greek, you are Greek American who does not live in Greece among Greeks and their habits or their beliefs. If you stayed here you would know that with serbs we have great connections since centuries and we have a great appreciation for them and vice versa.
do the greeks say albanians and serbs are gypsies? I have traveled to a large part of Greece and honestly I have not met anyone who says this. especially the Serbs, we hold them in high esteem! we call Albanians simply Albanians! stop the stupid propaganda.
Albanians are White as snow And Hitler admired the Aryan race, thank you that there were Arvanitas from Morea And Cameria who spread the race to the Greeks a little
Well as a Serb, i hope for you that she is just talking nonsense, otherwise ,.... but i already have some impression that greeks actually despise serbs and balkan people. WHAT we actually do to you and your country? Are serbs invading Greece? Are serbs killing greeks? They even visit your country in summer. But you hate us and the Western massmedia hates us, its in a way simular to what jews had to encounter during WW 2 , how to manipulate the mind of the people and its disgusting. If there are countries that talk badly about greece these are netherlands and germany, and these you hold in high Esteem, i think actually ...maybe serbia indeed should do something terrible, it doesnt matter what we do or dont do everything we do , only breathing is an obstacle to all people
Especially the "Serbs and Albanians are gypsies". The "Greece is not Balkan" comment is inaccurate but understandable for the island people whose culture is very different. But Macedonia and Thrace at least are identical to the rest of the Balkans.
Romanian people aren't Gypsies! This young American's of Balkans roots are such a pathetic, rude and not well informed or what! Bravo for our Serbian girl for telling the truth! All Romaians i know are veryy good hardworking people , very welcoming, have our Balkan warm heart and soul. Very beautiful , justiful and inteligent! Amazing people and real Serbian friends! I love them very much! Big hello from Serbia to all my dear Romanian friends, Serbian old Balkan's brothers and sisters! Love you guys! Stay always cool , calm and strong!😊😇🥰😎💓💞
As a bulgarian who travel trough Türkiye since 2014 I can say I never meet more welcoming people in my life and I have visited 14 countries now, they always says komshu and wants to know me, I think more and more bulgarian are thinking like me, hope that Türkiye will get better soon!
Greeks and Turks "lived together" for 400 years says the turk. Except he's conveniently omitting the fact that it wasn't by choice, and it wasn't at all equal.
@@generalinformation1707 it's better to say 1400+ since the battle of manzikert only affected the Greeks of Eastern Anatolia, and Balkan Greeks have always been more than Anatolian ones.
As a Greek i just wanna say that there was never any rumor or whatsoever that Serbians are gypsies and to stay away from them . Greeks consider Serbians to be our brothers and we welcome them as that. The woman speaking maybe has Greek roots but she is definately not Greek. Her accent is native American/UK/Canada etc.
This setup is like a United Colors of Benetton ad with all its lightheartedness, their are all basically Americans living within the stereotypes they have of each of their respective countries. I want to name this video "United Countries of Benetton".
First of all, stop being ignorant! Romania is part of Balkan as much as it is part of Scandinavia. The area of Balkan Mountains is about 11.500 square km, none of them part of Romania, but Carpathian Mountains has 190.000 square km, most of them part of Romania. In Balkans as in Romania there is lot of turkish influences, I can't name something 100% original Balkan. There is no Balkan culture, there is no Balkan civilisation, everything is coming from outside, mostly from Turkey and Greece if we talk about Balkan. If we talk about Romania there is lot of historical connections with other cultures and nations such as hungarians, russian, germans. Romania has different architecture than what we meet in Balkans. Romania has parts of the country which has nothing in common with Balkans (food, arhitecture, culture, history, mix of languages, and so on).
Cool Vid. Guys I'm from Turkey/Bursa whic is located central west in Anatolia and trust me we have 100% balkan mentality. Well our lands might be far away from balkans but our minds closer than you think. :) PS: My favoruite sport is drinking beer till the collapse in the streets. :) Love all
We only have 3% of population gypsie, Serbia have 8-14% gypsie. I dont why Romania get so much shit for it when a nation like Serbia clearly has Way more
Bc that is how western media wanted to picture Romania. We Serbs have other descriptions as war criminals, little Russians, drinkers, wild people. So I think it is already enough for us to have those beautiful things said about us in the media. Spain has the largest percent of Gypsie community and to be fear there is nothing wrong with being Gypsie. And in some way, we have other bigger ethnic majorities as Albanians, Hungarians, Slovakians, Slovenians, even Romanians and then Gypsies.
First it is not true and Romania and Bulgaria have more than Serbia, in Serbia they make up about 2% to 3%, that percentage 8-14% are Hungarians lol. I don't know what you have against Serbia, it's okay to be angry about stereotypes about Romanians, but telling lies is not, and as said in the above comment, we also have a lot of stereotypes about us, but of a different kind.
@@amarillorose7810 It is because Romania is bigger than all balkan countries together so we have more gypsies than them even though Romania has only 3% gypsy population.
@@Denis-ed3cm Spain and some other Western European countries have much more of them than Romania, so I don't know why this stereotype is imposed on Romania in the west, probably because of the similarity of the name regardless of the different origin of the name.
you can rlly tell wheb these ppl with balkan origins move to the western world they are so disconnected i never heard a greek person say that serbs are gypsies we have such a good relationship
@keno2285 he is featured in many other videos, where he even speaks on ur language. Long time followers of this channel know that he is Croatian/Bosniak
As a Bosnian, I love when these three groups speak my language: - Romani people (gypsies - sorry, just want clearify im not talking about Romanians) - Albanians - Macedonians Its so charming and funny 😊 Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian with a Romani accent is the best! I wish everyone could experience how it sounds. Its like you just want to give that person a big hug ❤
In fairness on the Macedonia thing… the northern most province of Greece is called Macedonia and the country is right next door. It’s just an easy mistake to make. Probably why it’s North Macedonia now…
About Bulgarian trains... I'm Bulgarian and it's true. I used to defend our railway system (БДЖ), but last summer I travelled in bed bugs infested wagon and brought them home. Safe to say many sleepless nights followed. I'm not traveling ever again with those trains! That is until next summer of course!
@@giorgiociaravolol1998 yes, but not cheaper. Why would I want to waste money, when with that cheaper train I am going to the seaside to have a blast and waste money there
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@@giorgiociaravolol1998that's the case across the entire Balkan. We don't maintain or invest in our railroads so it's dangerous to ride on them at speeds they were originally designed for. So instead of fixing them, we slow down the speed that the train is allowed to achieve so if there is an incident there won't be a complete tragedy. The more the railroad and trains deteriorate, the slower the train transport will be.
As a Romanian, believe me, I lost respect for that Romanian. Bulgarian trains aren't all that horrible; they're only slower than Romanian trains, but their safety and resistance are comparable, and I adore Bulgaria. I've been to Bulgaria once; I was in Varna, and the people are wonderful. I'd like to visit to Bulgaria again; Love Bulgaria from Romania!
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@@bruv4266 they're slower because they are in the worse condition and it's unsafe to ride them faster even tho they can go much much faster.
Funny, that all those countries have a bigger percentage of gypsies than Romania, but keep calling Romanians gypsies, Where is this obsession with the gypsies coming from? Plus Romania is not the poorest country in Europe, it never was. Is not the richest or rich but: Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, etc. are always been less prosperous/rich than Romania. Usually when you are asked things like that is nice to be polite. I'm sure if I'm asked I could say nice things which are also stereotypes for those countries. Romania never had vampires in their folklore, is just an invention of a confused writer who got ill advice from a Hungarian, is incredible how many people do not distinct reality from fiction.
Actually I don't mind at all that they were that nasty. It's the perfect window to their own ignorance as well as their countrymen's. The fact that people from Bulgaria, North Macedonia or Bosnia could think of Romania as some sort of shithole country is beyond amusing. This is literally what people from their country think. While they're still incredibly poor, Romania is doing excellent advance and every year is closer to its EU pals; but hey we're still thieving poor Gypsies and Romania is the smuggle capital of Europe.
So...everything about Romania is now gypsy now? The second best standard of living by most metrics (after Greece) out of all the countries here, by some even the best...so I guess that makes you (except for Greece) worse than a gypsy country...
Noone says such things in greece about the serbs or the albanians. Everyone knows in greece that albanians are not gyspies and everyone knows in greece that serbs are our brothers. Idk what is the role she is playing and why she said what she said maybe to spark anymosity in the comments
@@GholaTleilaxu while in albania you have democratic regime during communism when the only party was the communist party and there were no elections while minorities were suppressed...
Hey guys, first of all I am glad we are represented by this Bulgarian lady, she is smart and good with her words. Second of all, i am glad you guys included Turkey in as well. As a Bulgarian who visits Turkey a LOT, they are not Balkanian because their lands in Europe, but because of Balkan mentality they share with us doesn't matter they live on European side of Turkey or Anatolia. Also it may be interesting to Croatian lady to see all those blonde or tanned skinned people live together and call themselves Turk but i can assure you we Bulgarians, Serbs and Greeks are pretty diverse too. Balkans are so underrated while has great potential to become well known place by advertise her geographical, historical and cultural wealth, and you guys doing some good stuff here. You guys seem to disconnect from your Balkan diasppra and became more ''American'' than to Balkan, so i suggest to you to be prepare more and search for some unique, hilarious humor we have in Balkans. Also you guys should give everyone equal times to speak, for example Albanian and Romanian dudes talked rarely. And also you can include a Serbian since Serbia also has a huge Balkan mindset.
Google "Thrace" and you can see that Turkey has a part of Balkan lands too. Also the "population exchange" between Greece and Turkey had effects and there are many people from Bulgaria who are Turkish citizens for years. Also there are millions of "Muhacir"s (estimated 10 million Ottoman Muslim citizens, and their descendants born after the onset of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire who emigrated to East Thrace and Anatolia from the late 18th century until the end of the 20th century, mainly to escape ongoing persecution in their homelands). Especially recently there are more than 10 million Syrians have immigratred to Turkey, many people from Africa and Ukraine with the recent events. So I do think Turkey is now like a mini USA in terms of diversity. Can't compare with the Bulgaria or any other Southern european country.
@@valjetah Balkans cultures are the results the policies implemented in the Ottoman Empire. If it was as you say, all Europe would be made up of one race.
Now I know where that "Russian" accent in Hollywood films comes from :) I have never heard Russians speak like that and the men here speak just like that!!
@@Любовь-в1м9ф I don’t know, people sometimes have their own way of pronouncing English even if they belong to the same nationality, so they sound different. I’m from Vojvodina and I tend to speak more slowly and kinda stretch out the words so maybe that’s where they hear the ‘russian’
@@mirjanamilosavljevic3970 They can admittedly " recognize " Russian accent if u say that u are Serbian, that is already enough for them to believe , assume or associate you with anything that makes Russian person, Russian. In Serbia, as u said, we have different dialects from different regions and that is the reason why we sound different to each other.
