{"id":4683,"date":"2017-10-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-12T15:12:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T19:12:46","slug":"so-your-character-is-from-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriagracehowell.com\/staging\/6258\/so-your-character-is-from-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"So Your Character is from Serbia … Featuring Norah @ Bookish Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nIt’s time for this week’s So Your Character is … Post! This is a weekly segment where I interview lovely volunteers from around the world to give you a firsthand account of being a citizen of their respective country or having a disability. I’m hoping to encourage international diversity, break stereotypes, and give writers a crash course on how to write a character from these different places on our planet. If you haven’t checked out last week’s  So Your Character is from Bulgaria …<\/a> be sure to hop on over there and give it a read!<\/span>
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<\/span> Disclaimer: The content below may be culturally shocking to some. Each of these posts are as uncensored as possible to preserve the authenticity of the cultures of each of the interviewees.<\/span>
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Hi, my name is Norah Una Sumner. I was born and raised in a really small town in Serbia. My mother introduced me to the phenomenal world of books and my father introduced me to the amazing feeling of learning new languages. So, here I am now \u2013 studying Scandinavian languages and reading books almost every day. I\u2019m currently obsessed with SKAM, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Penny Reid.<\/span>
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\nWhat do you feel is unique to your country? Landmarks? Celebrations?<\/b><\/span>
\nI\u2019ve been told by many people that Serbian people are very welcoming, generous, and always ready to make a good joke. I have to agree. I\u2019ve grown up in a small town with beautiful nature surrounding it so I have to mention that Serbia really does have many breath-taking landscapes such as Uvac Canyon or \u0110avolja Varo\u0161. Our celebrations mostly revolve around upcoming Easter, Christmas, and our Statehood Day that occurs every February 15.<\/span>
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\nTell me about your country’s environment. What are some of your favorite places?<\/b><\/span>
\nMy favorite place has to be my hometown! It\u2019s situated under the Mountain Zlatar and it takes only ten minutes to get to Zlatar Lake and a bit more to get to Uvac Lake. The view is beautiful. It seems like I can never get enough of it. In Serbia, there are around 60\u201365 pairs of griffon vultures in the western parts of the country, especially around Zlatar Mountain \u2013 they are gorgeous creatures!<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/b> Tell me about your country’s food. What are some of your favorite dishes?<\/b><\/span>
\nOur food has definitely been influenced by Turkish dishes, which is not surprising since Serbia has been under the Turskih dominance for about five centuries. What can often be found in the cuisines of the Balkans is sarma (dish of grape, cabbage, monk’s rhubarb or chard leaves rolled around a filling usually based on minced meat) and punjena paprika (dish made of peppers, stuffed with a mix of meat and rice in tomato sauce). However, Serbia\u2019s special\/traditional dish is prebranac (Serbian baked beans) which I adore!<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nTell me about any different speech patterns in your country. Slang? Idioms?Words for things such as \u201cbiscuits\u201d instead of \u201ccookies\u201d?<\/b><\/span>
\nSerbian language has a few different dialects but we can mostly understand each other perfectly. Slang definitely exists but I feel like it\u2019s not as developed as it is in the English language. Cookies and biscuits are called keks. Slang is mostly used by younger inhabitants of Serbia or local groups but is often criticized. The first example that pops into my mind is slang word for mom and dad \u2013 the actual word is majka<\/i> and otac<\/i>, but the slang version is keva and \u0107ale. <\/span>
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