Title: Kaplan is a great writer yet has his own prjudice
Product review: Many praise Kaplan for "revealing the truth" about the Balkans, but what he really does is to perpetuate old myths and stereotypes of the Balkans. There are no ancient hatreds, all hatreds are modern creations of the past hundred or so years. Kaplan's mystical presentation of the Balkans only serves to continue long held and inaccurate and pejorative notions of the Balkan people. In the final analysis what Kaplan produces is part and parcel of a long ethnocentric tradition of negative western writting about the Balkans.
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