"Milos Rancic" millosh@mutualaid.org wrote: [snip]
Also, majority of people from those countries feel that the name "Serbo-Croatian" is offensive term. If you say to someone from this area that (s)he talks Serbo-Croatian, it is almost the same as you say to some African American that (s)he is a Nigger.
This has to be a relatively recent development, because we had some very good friends when I was small (about 30 years ago now :-) and the husband was quite happy to say that he was, and spoke, Serbo-Croat: he was proud of it IIRC.
I'm not aware that the term "nigger" has ever been quite so acceptable to those to whom it has been applied in a pejorative way.
I'm also not aware that the term "Serbo-Croat" has ever been used as an actual hate term in the same way as "nigger", but I'm happy to be educated if you can provide sources...