reply to no such user's opinion not sure if you're able to comprehend but here are few facts to consider serbia was a country during selimovi 's life for years before yugoslavia was kingdom of serbia kingdom of serbs croats and slovenes scs was renamed yugoslavia and it was also one of the federal republics of yugoslavia this is why on the yugoslav censuses serb ethnicity was an option which selimovic selected the majority of the members of the partizans and the communists were serbs being a serb and being a partizan communist was not mutually exclusive your implication that he changed nationalities from bosnian to serbian to spite sarajevan harrasment is ridiculous because he was not addressing his nationality in the letter but rather his ethnicity which is an unchangeable characteristic the serbian language's standardization was devised by karadzic in years before the croatian latin alphabet was standardized by ljudevit gaj and years before serbo croatian was devised at the vienna agreement if you read mesa selimovic's books you would know that the modern standardized serbian language is older than both modern standardized croatian and serbocroatian as he wrote a book discussing karadzic's reforms also there are croatian and serbo croatian dialects that are not mutually understandable with the modern standardized serbian that selimovic wrote in namely cakavian and kajkavian you say biographies are reliable sources then read this excerpt from selimovic's own autobiography sjecanja that he wrote himself and you will find the following quotation poti em iz muslimanske porodice iz bosne a po nacionalnoj pripadnosti sam srbin pripadam srpskoj literaturi translation i come from a muslim family from bosnia but by ethnicity i am a serb i belong to serbian literature you are clearly not a sane and neutral editor if you call me a bully and tell me to fuck off simply for adding relevant the author's works deal primarily with ethnic questions in the balkans additional information and citations from the author's own autobiography to an article