These are a people who still practice blood feuds for crying out loud--and you're going to tell me they are some kind of superior cosmopolitans?!?! Gimmee a friggin' break!!!!
Sorry--I meant this for someone else.
superior cosmopolitans?? who said that....? if you plan on earning a living in Germany, France, U.S......etc...what would you do? If the entire support of your family, which is large, depends on you or you sending a family member to another country, and....it has been a practice that is generations old, what do you think? Superior cosmopolitians???? has nothing to do with it. I challenge you to talk to 10 Americans that have not visited Europe or been overseas, or even have for that matter and ask them about the history, current events or whatever about the Balkans. Then find a few Albanians if you can, and try it yourself.
Americans have always been isolationist.....Our education system is also in bad shape......otherwise, I'm moving on here. :)
What has blood feuds got to do with geography, history and surviving......in a world where your livelihood depends on working in other countries and picking the right one.....that works.
Its a matter of culture........and surviving not being a "cosmo"....:))