Reflections on the Newly Independent Kosovo

"How much blood has been spilt because one 'ethnic team' felt it was superior to another, because they felt entitled to a certain stretch of land or whatever? It's pretty silly to begin with, that anyone would take up arms over the fact that someone else in their backyard speaks with different-sounding words and believes in a different man in the sky and has different social habits and customs. It's even sillier when you dress these things up and make them into 'nationalities' and 'ethnicities,' and then stake their whole identity on it. It's collectivist and has about as much sense as Giants and Patriots fans waging war in the streets...." Column by Marcel Votlucka.