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(2/5) As a bilingual Croatian/Brit, studying classical and foreign languages has both broadened my outlook. But in my Croatian case, it had an ironic twist—it left me a bit alienated from Croatians, and now I sometimes feel like a foreigner in both countries, lol 😆

(3/5) I grew up in Yugoslavia under communism, so I know democracy isn’t the only model. What strikes me is how little Yugoslav history gets studied in Oxbridge circles. Beyond Rory Yeomans, few engage with it—even though its collapse shows how complex internal dynamics can undo a state.

(4/5) Storytelling really is key. While Australian First Nations sustained oral traditions for millennia, Croatians—with historically low literacy rates—became champions of collective amnesia. In Croatia history is still treated as a dry handbook of facts, not as a living narrative.