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Anybody with any sense can see past your romanticizing of hatred, and see where this is going.

Huh??? My entire post was about how I don't hate anybody, no matter what has been done to my family, yet I've experienced hatred directed at me just for being a Serb long before 1989.

My phobia is not toward a race, it is toward a people I feel to be deeply indoctrinated with hate.

Aw hell no. While there are plenty of Serbs from Kosovo that truly do hate Albanians and there are plenty of Serbs from Krajina that truly do hate Croats, this "indoctrination" stems from the fact that the Serbs in those areas have been at the receiving end of the violence and they've had enough. I'm not saying this hatred is right. I'm just telling you where it's coming from.

These past 15 years I've been in a position to meet people from all over the world and I've yet to meet one single person from any country that likes Albanians. Why is this? I'm not saying that universal dislike of Albanians is right, as a matter of fact I've already told you that I happen to truly admire the Albanians that I do know, so I'm actually at the top of my list of non-Albanians that likes Albanians. Whenever I ask these people of various ethnic groups why they don't like Albanians, I get a barrage of different answers. They must think that because I'm of Serbian ancestry they've found a sympathetic ear. I'm curious as to why you think there is this universal dislike of Albanians.

>>>I'm curious as to why you think there is this universal dislike of Albanians.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092895/posts

Basically this is as a results of the political, economic situation in Albania and Kosova. The instability (again both political and economic) has spawned organized crime, and being that Albanians are good at practically anything they try their hand at, the people who have tried their hand at crime have managed to take over practically all branches of organized crime in Europe, in the process managing to also give the rest of us a bad name. Once the situation back home calms down and the economies start improving, the Albanian "mafia" will fade away along with certain people's dislike of Albanians.

There's a book in Italian I read over the Christmas break, its' called "L'Orda: quando gli Albanesi eramo noi." translated "The Horde: when the Albanians were we". Basically it discusses how in the early 20th century something like 30million Italians emigrated all over the world, and all the stereotypes that are placed on Albanians sometimes today were at the time used toward Italians.