>>Whaddya mean with "not socially acceptable"?
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>I worked with an engineer from what was then Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. My wife had friends from Medjugorje,Yugoslavia. When Yugoslavia divided into several countries I learned something, as did my wife.
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>If someone said they were from Yugoslavia, and either of us mentioned knowing someone from there we would receive an immediate response: “Are they Muslim” or “Are they Christian”! The people asking these questions were instantly aroused to a point of extreme anger and acted very threatening. We would just say that “I do not know”, and avoid that person.

Ah... that's something that didn't happen much in the country I remember. I had much more trouble for my long hair than for any nationality issue. Actually, we were raised to ignore nationality, specially in my heavily mixed area.

Sarajevo used to be very metropolitan - it had a specific culture, and was a great source of good rock'n'roll bands. In retrospect, all of these bands were also heavily mixed, which we actually didn't know until their members were forced to take sides. IOW, specially there nationality didn't matter until 1990s, when it became a matter of life, death or exile.

Međugorje, however... heavily Catholic and with a nasty history, from what I heard. That area supported the Ustashe quisling forces, that's where some of the prominent terrorists of 1970s were from. I don't know anyone from there (though I knew a lot of people from all parts of the country), so I wouldn't know how deep and how wide do those feelings go there.

OTOH, I heard of the ex-Yugo community in New Zealand - where they just decided to not give a damn about any nationality, they're all Yugos there, period. Just like it once was.