Translation for "serbofilia" to english
Serbofilia
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En él se encuentra un fondo de la serbofilia tradicional francesa, que por otra parte era la de Mitterrand (Jean Dutourd: «¿Qué ganará Francia peleándose con viejos camaradas —los serbios—, en favor de gente con la que nada le une, los bosnios, los kosovares, y que no se lo agradecerá en absoluto?») y, para los jóvenes, sus argumentos se resumen así: he ido a Belgrado, las chicas son guapas, la slivóvitza corre a raudales, se canta hasta altas horas de la noche, la población no es en absoluto bárbara sino orgullosa, púdica, ofendida porque la mira mal todo el mundo, empezando por los franceses, a los que siempre han considerado amigos.
It contains a good dose of traditional French Serbophilia (Jean Dutourd: “What advantage will France gain from running afoul of its old comrades—the Serbs—to the benefit of people who mean nothing to it and will show no gratitude—Bosnians, Kosovars?”), while the arguments of the younger writers came down to: I was in Belgrade, the women are beautiful, the slivovitz flows like water, they sing late into the night, the people aren’t barbarians at all but proud, modest, and pained by the knowledge that everyone thinks ill of them, starting with the French, whom they’ve always considered their friends. Okay, I’d thought, but that’s not the issue. And if I’m going to be impressed by the argument “I was there,”
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