Nationalism in this case is not based in what state they live in, rather that of what ethnicity they belong to. “Ethnicity is a form of identification or distinctiveness that is usually rooted in a common biological ancestry in a distant past, or more accurately a people’s belief in a common biological ancestry.” (Sodaro 145) Animosity between the ethnic groups of the Serbs and the Albanians have stemmed from ancient times. It has escalated for centuries into some of the most horrible fighting known to man. As Campbell explains “being passionate about history is one thing, but to burst suddenly into a killing frenzy that knows no moral bounds because some Serbian prince name Lazar failed to defend his homeland against invading Turkish hordes in 1389” (55) This quote

“In fact (the Serbs) are a fine and warm-hearted people in many circumstances, they’re only sin is being suckered into hate-mongering propaganda. They have been told that they were in mortal danger of anyone other than Serbs (Campbell 97). This sort of brainwashing by the media would scare anyone into fighting. Kill them before they kill us became their mentality. The idea of nationalism brings people together, it is hypernationalism that brings people together against another group. The same type of propaganda nationalism can be seen during the time of Hitler and the Nazi regime.

o far, when it is, that is called hypernationalism.

Yugoslavia explained “The media’s terror campaign established ethnic solidarity on the basis of an enemy that they both feared and hated” (Campbell 101) The government figured, and they were right, that they could scare their people into believing that another culture was threatening them, so that they took solace in their own ethnic group. In effect they were propagandizing nationalism. If one did not support their group, then they were themselves an enemy and were treated as such, either killed or worse.

“Nationalism can assume an arrogant stance that regards other countries with contempt, at times unleashing unprovoked aggression” (Sodaro 147) The Serbs held the Albanians in deep contempt and began to ethnically cleanse Albanians from the state of Kosovo. Ethnic cleansing, it is the politically correct term for the violent extermination of an entire culture.

Soon after Milosevec came into power he addressed a huge prong of Serbs on the site of Kosovo Polo, the “Field of Blackbirds” where the Serbian army had been defeated by the Turks exactly six hundred years earlier. Milosevic’s fiery speech promised

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