Friday, May 13, 2011

Are Serbs lazy?

To start with, there is a tendency to view Serbs as people with little or no motivation to work in order to improve their living conditions. Besides, preassumptions are made that Serbs lack organisational skills. Another preconception is that Serbs have no business sense. Let's see and try to view these beliefs, all of which count for a stereotype about Serbian laziness.
First of all, speaking of the motivation part, there certainly are people in Serbia who lack motivation and who don't have any real idea of direction in their lives. However, one can find such individuals in any other country as well, can't they? Secondly, there is a grain of truth in this preconception about organisational skills. I know some people who experienced serious problems with organising their daily routine. Nonetheless, there are much more people I know who have some kind of ability, or a natural talent, to organise their day in segments, so that they can divide it into time for work and time for pleasure. Finally, I'd like to say something about business part. Not everyone in this world, of course, is a natural born businessman. Some nations are better in economic respect than others, which is probably due to mentality and socio-cultural factors. However, there are many examples which shatter this kind of stereotype. Myriads of people with Serbian origin made their name in extremely lucrative professions, such as Carl Malden, Mila Jovovich, Peter Bogdanovich, Vlade Divac, Holly Valance and many others. Additionally, variety of Serbs across the globe contribute to the development of culture, business and industry of countries they live in (unfortunately for Serbia, but that's the way things are). As you can see, Serbian people can cope with business of various kinds very well.
To sum up, Serbs do tend to be lazy and without motivation for work. Nevertheless, Serbs are, on most occasions, good and industrious workers, who are persistant to achieve what they want. Given that Serbs were enslaved by different conquerors for centuries, they certainly know what it's like to strive for achieving important goal, and it's tenacity along with agility that helps them to accomplish what they set out to do.

6 comments:

  1. Sorry man, we haven't been enslaved, never in our history. The ting is that we had to pay taxes to the Ottoman rulers at the time when our lands have been occupied. There's also a stereotype that whole of the Serbian people have been under the Ottoman rule, which is a nonsense. Regions of central and western Serbia, Šumadija and Mačvansko-Kolubarski region had a privilege to be autonomous Serbian provinces throughout most of the Ottoman rule. Another nonsense is that many people say that we've been besieged for about 500 years, but the fact is that our lands have been under the Ottomans less than 350 years, and like I've said, not every regions of our land has been ruled by the Turks.

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    1. Serbian are arrogant, aggressive, temperamental, selfish and controversial. Most of the Serbian felt the world owe them life. And most importantly, Serbian man are womanizer, dishonest & with no integrity. This review is done based on the Serbian man I met in Asia. Serbian are smart but self-centered, know how to uses other for their own benefit. I'm an Asian and these are my finding.

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    3. Huey, Im Serbian... I agree with you. Even do im form serbia I agree that our men are terrible. They are narrow minded, most of them are low educated, narrow minded and never saw the rest if the world but they still think that they are the smartest. I couldn't be with a serbian guy because they are ignorant, racis and have no respect for women whatsoever.

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  2. Im serbian and I agree. Serbian boys are proper shit and they have a brain size of a peanut. The saddest thing is that they act like they smart but they just ig idnorant fools who never payed a dinner for a girl... I lived in serbia till I was 17 years old so I know how full of bullshit they are. They have no respect and integrity whatsoever. Most of them aren't to a girls knee. They have poor parenting

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    1. Poor parenting??? Really and guess who is a mother of Serbian man a Serbian WOMAN. You really have some issues, don't you

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