tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30426821.post7207098633647396283..comments2023-10-30T12:05:05.664+01:00Comments on Yugowife's (and family) bits and bobs: Double-sided "inat"Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06922320158164728213noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30426821.post-6501193405681736952007-05-19T08:36:00.000+02:002007-05-19T08:36:00.000+02:00I think your comments are comprehensive and overal...I think your comments are comprehensive and overall very accurate...I also really liked reading "blackbirds" comments as well...Thank you very much for posting...<BR/><BR/>I think I myself came to a significant realization of inat during the bombing/aggression/etc. against Serbia...I am born and bred American (but otherwise a 100% Serbian ;) but during the bombing when there were people on a bridge or encircling a factory and protecting it I was one with them and at that time truly understood what INAT is all about...A minuscule country such as our own resisted (and some would say very successfully based on observations after the fact) the amassed force of the most powerful country(ies) in the world...that is INAT...As someone who is very conscious of social justice/injustice inat has been my reservoir of resistance, my unbreakable and invincible reserve against the seeming insurmountability of such apparently intractable problems of war, "globalization"/neoliberalism/TINA, etc., etc. It has become something I think of daily and apply to even the most routine things...Now sure I have to agree sometime I will admit inat can be petty as when I am told to do something (which I was already doing or about to do) but which after being told/commanded/etc. will not simply uz inat ;)...I conclude however that inat to me is being Serbian and to be Serbian is inat...<BR/><BR/>To everyone else who may be scratching their heads in puzzlement and incomprehension right now I will say, paraphrasing somewhat awkwardly, "Its a Serbian thang, you wouldn't understand" ;)...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05044165752026101359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30426821.post-64501667597890068712007-04-06T20:46:00.000+02:002007-04-06T20:46:00.000+02:00As salaam alaikum.I am a Canadian Muslim writer --...As salaam alaikum.<BR/><BR/>I am a Canadian Muslim writer -- I just happened to surf onto your site today.<BR/><BR/>Come by my blog insha'Allah if you have an interest in poetry, reflections, fiction etc...<BR/><BR/>Ma'as salaama,<BR/><BR/>nuh ibnnuh ibn zbigniew gondekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02367991646220822545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30426821.post-14580923563118726192007-03-08T14:34:00.000+01:002007-03-08T14:34:00.000+01:00Huh! We lived down the street from the tourist-y ...Huh! We lived down the street from the tourist-y Sarajevan/Bosnian restaurant, Inat Kuca, and I can't even tell you how facinated we expats were with this word. Thanks for the ever-not-so-concise response!J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17260511461647296081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30426821.post-48264069215502696272007-02-10T20:11:00.000+01:002007-02-10T20:11:00.000+01:00How the hell is opposing a land grab not in one's ...How the hell is opposing a land grab not in one's own interests?! Are you mad!<BR/><BR/>This land grab has been going on for many decades, marked by many years of oppression against the Serbs in Kosovo by the Albanians that overpopulated it by a deliberate policy to take over, and it is only the corruption of late western governments that has played into the hands of the thieves that would take what has never been theirs and in the process allow them to destroy everything meaningful to the Serbian people on that land. And the general public that doesn't have the brains to find anything out but regurgitates the propaganda of those corrupt governments that are pulling the strings. <BR/><BR/>I suppose you would be just fine with the U.S. giving up California without a fight. I'd like to see that one! If any part of the world has a case, which Kosovo doesn't, for being given up to another people, it's California to be given up to the Mexicans that will soon overrun it, or at least the southern half of California -- after all California was taken from Mexico. However, the Mexicans have not yet shown the kind of vicious nature that the Albanians have shown to Serbs. <BR/><BR/>The Serbs have been too tolerant for their own good all through history. That's another version of inat -- believing that the truth will out, even though you might suffer until it does and then you are pushed to the point of having to push back, because it never does , because there are people who don't care about the truth - they just want what they want, like the criminals they are. Serbian tolerance is evident to anyone with the ability to see or read -- the only multicultural part of the former Yugoslavia is Serbia -- with 30+ different nationalities living in peace, including Albanians, Croats, Bosnians, Gypsies, etc., etc., etc... <BR/><BR/>"If Kosovo is not ours, why are they asking us to give it up? If it is theirs, why are they taking it by force? And if they can take it by force, why they are so circumspect about it?" Serbian Poet, 2005.<BR/><BR/>Yeah.Blackbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11532860600303960591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30426821.post-7473848888634390022007-02-10T17:18:00.000+01:002007-02-10T17:18:00.000+01:00Thinking of Kosovo perhaps? Inat is certainly pla...Thinking of Kosovo perhaps? Inat is certainly playing a role in terms of not letting that one go - when it's obviously long lost and you keep hanging on... I think that should easily qualify. Talk about stubborness to the detriment of everyone else or even oneself...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30426821.post-47561122080784732972007-02-09T18:58:00.000+01:002007-02-09T18:58:00.000+01:00Everything you say is true, Sandra, and thanks for...Everything you say is true, Sandra, and thanks for elaborating on and broadening the subject of "inat." A wider discussion can only be a good thing.<BR/><BR/>The irony is that even though inat may not be regarded by other nationalities as a sympathique trait, it is precisely their inat that makes most Serbs not care about that! Yes, it DID pull Serbs through so much adversity and naturally those that survived because of inat have that in their natures, the natures they passed down to future generations. So no wonder it's still a prevalent characteristic among Serbs. <BR/><BR/>I would just add that even though it sometimes works against Serbs, as when other powers would prefer to see Serbs grovel rather than show their inat, there is more nurishment in dignity than bread. The exceptions to that thought are when small children are affected, etc., and when inat perhaps needs to be temporarily put aside.<BR/><BR/>On the whole, I regard inat as a feeling of defiance against injustice, as opposed to compliance for the sake of expediency that we so often see now in the Serbian government, the call for compliance that has lately been shoved down Serbians' throats by both their government and the Western powers that have their boots on that government. Therefore, I like possessing inat myself and will be glad if I've passed it on to my own children.<BR/><BR/>Those who understand inat could discuss it endlessly it seems!Blackbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11532860600303960591noreply@blogger.com