Serbian Nationalism is Homegrown and not Foreign backed

Oj Srbi! Ne Oj Slave..Oj Srbi! Kosovo Je Srbija! Živeli Srbija zauvek!

Those are my favorite Serbian nationalistic phrases. I am myself despite being a foreigner and just known more of it's people in just 3 years. I mean, i am not even a Balkan man but i knew a lot, thanks to my research and some people who told me about the countries there, especially in Srbija.

When did Srbija stood up against the Ottomans? The Banat Uprising of 1594, were it ended after the Turks burned the incorruptible relics of Saint Sava in Beograd. But it doesn't stop there. Numerous revolts till the two Serbian uprisings that would be one of the precursors of Serbian independence eventually.

The World Wars came, making Srbija lose it's citizens in a war they fought at first alone but winning everything till the enemies united against a tiny Serbia. Retreating through the mountains till they found haven in Greece and the island Corfu, they reassembled and managed to regain back their homeland. The next world war was a disaster through extermination by the Hrvati NDH and losing their homeland to communists for the next 45 years.

Despite these events, the Serbs still kept their nationalism intact, devoid of any foreign backed money, even from their Russian brothers or other neighbors that are sympathetic to the Serbian Nationalism. It is also evident now by the people themselves, from the internet to mass demonstrations and feeling they need to change the system than what their government wants. Truly a homegrown nationalism.

Moja Nacionalizam Definicija

When i was a kid, i am thought that patriotism and nationalism is one. Nothing wrong in the term called nationalism since it was to protect a country from any external influence or foreign interventions. Ya, no wonder i was a proud Filipinac back when i am a kid.

Fast-forward, i am hearing these news in CNN that ultranationalists in Ukrajina are killing the Russian minorities and Pro-Russian Ukranians in the sense of nationalism. Now i know why the Western media is depicting them as nationalists despite being a foreign trained mercenaries and dependent on dollars and Saudi oil, made possible by the dreadded National Endownment for Democracy.

For me, nationalism is a strong national policy of binding the state together through patriotism and unity in diversity. The main ethnic group and minorities functioning as one regardless of group, religion and internal political factionalism when it comes to internal stability and external freedom. That alone said, it is not foreign backed and neither communism nor fascism even democracy but by the will of the people for their common good as a one state.