Associations for every country

[Matt]

football/soccer
Pizza
Pasta
Lasagna
Rome
Pisa
Venice
colosseum
hairy men
Mafia
healthy skin color
Fashion

 

[vatroslav_cro]

Ok. I think now it would be a term for hr

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

Croatia

Natural beauty
Coastline
Yugoslavia
Balkan
Dubrovnik
Split
Adriatic
Tourism
Jukica
Isabella
Dora
South Eastern Europe
European Union candidate

 

[PeterLPZ]

Isabella
Zagreb
Dora
wonderful country
sea
mountains
wonderful Croatian language, which I try to learn since many months
Balkan
Ivica Kostelic
Dubrovnic
Dinamo Zagreb
Hajduk Split
Osijek
Zagrebacki odrezak
beautiful people
Antena Zagreb
Handball
Football
Dalmacia
Sport Plus
Nacional - Neovisni news magazin
Kulen
Strukli
Sarma
I hope in EU soon.
Tourism

 

[goktengri]

EU candidate
Dinamo Zagreb, Hajduk Split
Ivica Olić
Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Split
Ex-yu country
Slavic
Josip Broz Tito
Adriatic Sea
Jukica, Isabella
Balkans
NATO Member
has nice flag
Battle of Mohács
Catholic country
Sisak Bridge
Croatian War of Independence
beautiful coastal places

 

[Interrail]

^My association: All this what Adam, Peter and Altug already said... + Ivo Josipović, Vedrana Rudan, Hloverka Novak Srzić, Ivica Kostelić, Blanka Vlašić, Robert Prosinečkixrockout, Irena Grobnik (Bitange i Princeze)...

 

[Darko]

Hrvatska:

Zagreb
Italian - when i went to Zagreb 3 out of the 4 people i talked could speak Italian
Dinamo Zagreb
Pleso airport
Waterfalls - can't remember their names
Beaches
Wonderful music
Stunning landscapes
Nikola Tesla
Yugoslavia
Josep Broz Tito
Istria
Pula
Rijeka
Vukovar
Dalmatia
Split
Zadar
Dubrovnik
Baska Voda
KARKOVACKO.... OH MY GODDESSKuna
Oliver Dragojevic (what a singer...!)
Hladno Pivo
Dino
Severina
Jadrolinija (or smth like this)
European Union candidate - actually the next one to join!
Hrvatski jezik


Those were just some of the associations I made in a random order

 

[Isabella]

You guys rock

 

[vatroslav_cro]

This is really nice to see those associations, but why on Earth most of you still mention YUGOSLAVIA and why still that association? I cannot believe! It has gone 20 years ago! Hallo??

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

Because it's part of your history and it's commonplace for people over here to still call that area 'Yugoslavia' like it still exists . It's name lives on in the official title of one of the country's!

 

[vatroslav_cro]

You still call this "Yugoslavia"...well....."good for you"! I cannot believe Great, I am shocked now!
well that's because you don't know there what we suffered here because of that state! I wish it never was created!:ugeek:

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

I dont call it Yugoslavia personally, I say some people here do. I dont know much about the state of Yugoslavia, I didnt intend to cause any offense =//.
This is a game about associations. Associations can be anything true or false, good or bad. I didnt see any German people getting offended by me writing Hitler for Germany... nor did I get offended when people wrote colonialists etc. for the United Kingdom.

 

[vatroslav_cro]

I dont call it Yugoslavia personally, I say some people here do. I dont know much about the state of Yugoslavia, I didnt intend to cause any offense =//.
This is a game about associations. Associations can be anything true or false, good or bad. I didnt see any German people getting offended by me writing Hitler for Germany...

No, no Adam it is not your fault, I just said I am shocked that some people still don't know some facts....I mean, where ever the people are educated, such things should be known And 20 years isn't a short period!

 

[Darko]

BTW, I forgot to say: Colonia - "za tvoje snene oci"

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

No, no Adam it is not your fault, I just said I am shocked that some people still don't know some facts....I mean, where ever the people are educated, such things should be known And 20 years isn't a short period!

Oh okayy. Im glad I havent upset you!
Well it's not so much that people dont know that Yugoslavia has split up, it's just they choose to be ignorant.

 

[Isabella]

I don't see any problem or offense here
We are not Yugoslavia anymore, but we used to be part of it. It's our history and unfortanetly, we can't change it

 

[goktengri]

I can see Vatroslav, cause I feel same when someone mentions Ottoman Empire, many people think that we still live with ottoman culture, we still wear fez, write in arabic alphabet etc. although it's been around 80 years since we left them.

But I'm also agree with Isabella, cause I should accept ( although it's so hard ) that we were a part of this empire and lived with such nasty culture for 600 years... And consequently, Thoughts don't change so fast. ( so, 20 years is a short period actually, considering our situation )

 

[vatroslav_cro]

I can see Vatroslav, cause I feel same when someone mentions Ottoman Empire, many people think that we still live with ottoman culture, we still wear fez, write in arabic alphabet etc. although it's been around 80 years since we left them.

But I'm also agree with Isabella, cause I should accept ( although it's so hard ) that we were a part of this empire and lived with such nasty culture for 600 years... And consequently, Thoughts don't change so fast. ( so, 20 years is a short period actually, considering our situation )

Well Altug, I know for your situation and of course I know reality today. I don't think you are Ottomans, however you don't were headscarfs etc etc.
Isabella, of course I know that it is the unhappy part of our history, we still feel the consequences from that era...but ok, let's go back to the topic.
So, anybody else has some associations about our nice country???

 

[Milos-BC]

I also don't see the fuss with Yugoslavia. If it is bad or not, we can talk in a different topic (this isn't the right place to do it), it is a fact that it had it's good as well as it's bad sides. I don't know why should I be ashamed or angry if someone connects me with Yugoslavia. It was our common country before. I personally can say that I lived in three countries so far I was born in Yugoslavia, I lived in Serbia and Montenegro, and now I live in Serbia I also don't think it is something we should be ashamed of. It is true that politicians ruined it and made our people hate each other, which is totally wrong IMO. However, from today's perspective, and under these circumstances, it would've been better if it was never created indeed. But for me all people of ex-yu (especially Serbs and Croats) are almost the same people. We have the same origins, but we are separated by religion and by faith. And now by the politicians as well. Not COMPLETELY the same people, but the same structure. Even our tempers are the same

@goktengri: Indeed, most people in , at least in my neighborhood still connect Turkey with Ottoman Empire . Everyone say "We were under Turks for 500 years"

 

[vatroslav_cro]

ok people, please let's go back to the theme. I think it will be better for all. So Miloš, your associations? And the rest of you?