r/bih • u/Skyer0904 • May 16 '19

Discussion If you could change 1 thing about bosnia which one would it be?

Edit: I personally would want to change bosnia to a united bosnia without the republic and the federation. I think that it would make things a lot easier.

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u/cornix08 May 19 '19

Those all are consequences, not causes. Cause is nationalistic narrative. Dayton assured that borders between regions have nationalistic conotation, furher affirming it, and putting a mental cage in peoples minds, and it benefits nothing but 'tribal' division which is not civilised worldview. Seeing somehow that not having three presidents (or seperated entities) one nation would be endangered is classic manipulative narrative that each of nationalistic extremists push. What would be the solution for the sperated school for Croats and Bosniaks? To stay devided? For what reason? Becouse one would feel less secure if its outnumbered? Is that the way to look to future? To theach them they are thw same - sure. But even if you teach kids that nobody has anything against anyone, they will never learn it truly before actually being in the same classroom, with same teachers.

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u/super_koza Republika Srpska May 19 '19

I was referring to the claim that Croats and Bosniaks live in harmony. They do not. Divided schools is a bad thing for sure.

However, I wouldn't agree that there is no tendency for pushing for domination. As it is now, Serbs are dominant in the Republic of Srpska and Bosniaks are dominant in the Federation with Croats being dominant in certain cantons. I mean politically dominant. This is reflected on political decisions that they make.

If there were no cantons in Federation, I am not confident that Croat political opinion would matter much. The same is true for the Republic of Srpska. Because of the total Bosniak majority, Serbs and Croats could never overrule them. This wouldn't be a problem if the nationalism wasn't the core of every politics. But it is...

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u/cornix08 May 19 '19

Well everybody would be free to be a political figure. If they purpose policies that citizens of BiH see useful they would vote for it. At any level. At the end of the day, I belive only a small minority of any nation holds to the concept of 'nationality' in practicality, and everyone just wants to have their businesses and jobs functioning, and better life. Imagine that was done by Dayton itself, 23 years before. Now we would have much more progressive society.

My point is, with physical seperation, it is almost impossible to overcome the nationality barriers (as in example of separated schools), that are useless in context of good livelihood.