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Unfortunately, the article is not well-researched. There is no effort to explain the social-economic roots of the problem at hand. No historic background or rec
by tousperdugen 9y ago
Unfortunately, the article is not well-researched. There is no effort to explain the social-economic roots of the problem at hand. No historic background or recognition that the problem spans across borders (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krvna_osveta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krvna_osveta) .
I find the title bombastic and inappropriate; it is simply using the catchword “vendetta” as clickbait.
If you visited Corsica or Sicily and observed/learned of a local custom or phenomenon, would you extrapolate that phenomenon to the rest of the country (respectively France/Italy)?
And what a coincidence that the author is of Serbian / Slavic origin.
- pdabbadabba 9y agoFair enough on the lack of historical/socioeconomic background. That would have been interesting--though it's not clear to me why such a discussion is actually necessary here, as you suggest. (And it strikes me as a bit odd to describe this sort of article, based on apparently extensive first-person reportage, as "not well researched".) But note that the author does not extrapolate to the rest of the country. > The killing is concentrated in northern Albania—in the rural, often unreachable villages of the Accursed Mountains, and in the modern city of Shkodër, one of the oldest municipalities in southeastern Europe. To me, it is significantly more problematic to suggest that the article is the product of some sort of bias against Albanians merely because the author--who is a professional author/journalist and Guggenheim fellow--has Croatian grandparents
- Parcissons 9y agoAgreed. Societys stuck in cyclic behaviour can be found anywhere, where nature generates no surplus, does not enforce longterm storage and no external ressources can break the cycle.