Mixed marriages in the Balkans

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Stverghame@reddit

Some of my relatives have partial Hungarian, while others have partial Greek heritage. I think for Serbs generally most common non-homogenous marriage would be Serb-Hungarian and Serb-Croat.

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Intelligent_Pizza776@reddit

im dating albanian guy lol pray for me my fam still doesn’t know🤣🤣idc us two are doing extremely well

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My sister met her first boyfriend when she was 15. He is an Albanian guy. We are Serbs from Bosnia. My sister unfortuatley died a month ago from cancer at age 31. He was with her for 6 years during her fight. So it doesnt matter where hes from if hes a good giy hes a good guy.

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Archaeopteryx111@reddit

Sorry for your loss.

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Aulawabe@reddit

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floare_salbatica@reddit

I'm sorry for your loss. 🥹

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Aulawabe@reddit

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Substratas@reddit

Oh man 😭 I am so sorry for your loss ❤️🫶

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Aulawabe@reddit

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Suspicious-Bug1994@reddit

My wife is Serbian, and she has two friends who are with Russians. So quite common I guess, or at least becoming more common?

However, if you watch one of those silly youtube videos, almost all the women say the prefer serbian guys. So either they found a particular group of women, or they were all lying 😂

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True-Blacksmith4235@reddit

Most marriages in Serbia are ethnically homogeneous, so it doesn’t have to mean that they were lying.

That might be their initial preference, but if the relationship with someone from another country happens, it wouldn’t really be a big deal.

In my experience.

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Successful_Neck_4731@reddit

Serbian/Brazilian child here 🇧🇷🇷🇸 It happens, not too frequently, but yeah, we exist. I know of Turkish/Serbian marriages, then some Russian/Serbian, Arab/Serbian and East African/Serbian. Not too many of us, but we are here. 😎

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Hefty_Jaguar4305@reddit

My relatives in the Balkans are all of mixed heritage.

Everything after World War II, through the marriage of Danube Swabian women from my family to Croatian, Serbian, and Hungarian relatives, was assimilated.

The Swabian ancestry is now far back in their family tree.

And well, me... having a Balkan Turk for a father with darker skin... isn't exactly great...

I hate it when people associate me with Roma.

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Adventurous-Sport-45@reddit

Imagine how the Roma feel when people associate them with you. ;)

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Hefty_Jaguar4305@reddit

No christian roma do not associate the turkish speaking gypsys with them...they call them simple turks.

if you would be a person from the balkans you know it. but it seems you amerikano

https://ge.xhamster.desi/videos/turkish-guys-having-sex-on-cam-xhw7LYY

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Adventurous-Sport-45@reddit

I'm talking about other people associating you with the Roma, not Roma associating themselves with you. I'm saying "if you don't want to be associated with them, they probably don't want to be associated with you either."

I'm not sure why you posted a sex video link there, either.

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Suspicious-Bug1994@reddit

What has happened here 😂 Turkish guys having s*x on cam in the url

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LaVeriteEstDansLeVin@reddit

Every albanian I speak to tells me that they have a cousin that is married to a greek.

Mixed marriages are more popular since so many people left when the crisis started.

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Substratas@reddit

Every albanian I speak to tells me that they have a cousin that is married to a greek.

Yupp, I have several half-Greek cousins.

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Substratas@reddit

My husband is Swedish.

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Substratas@reddit

My husband is Swedish.

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Young_Owl99@reddit

Generally with other Turkic nations and Russians/Ukrainians for brides and middle eastern and western European countries for grooms. The statistics are from Turkish Statistical Institute.

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Archaeopteryx111@reddit

Is it considered taboo for Turkish women to marry European foreigners?

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Young_Owl99@reddit

Also you might misunderstood my comment so I fixed it. The amount of European marriges among Turkish women and European men is higher.

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Young_Owl99@reddit

Unless her family is a religious conservative, not at all. Then the issue become religion not being European. I mean at that point they wouldn’t allow their daughter to marry a secular non Muslim Turk either.

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True-Blacksmith4235@reddit

In Serbia, Serbs and Hungarians. By a long shot.

Presumably, historically as well.

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Glittery_Marshmallow@reddit

There are a lot of marriages with Macedonias, Montenegrins (if you would classify that as mixed), Greeks. Met a few that are married to Bosniaks, both older and younger generation, again, if that would even count as proper mixed all things considering. Also a pretty decent number married to Slovenias. And then there is that weird thing with Albanian mail-order brides.

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True-Blacksmith4235@reddit

I would consider all that marriages mixed, yes. You are right and members of my family have married Montenegrins.

But on a national level, the gap in numbers between Serbs and Hungarians’ marriages and all the others is big. And i think that was what the OP asked.

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crw122@reddit

Yup, I’m one of them.

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LenaLena93@reddit

Currently yes.

Historically I would think people from Ex YU countries.

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floare_salbatica@reddit

I guess it's rather my algorithm than really high numbers, but I see more Romanians coupled with Indonesian and filipinas. I must admit that my first thought when I see them is: passport bros.

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Archaeopteryx111@reddit

Muslim Indonesians?

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floare_salbatica@reddit

Nu știu, dar nu cred, mă refeream ce mai văd pe social media. Niciuna dintre ele nu are capul acoperit, deci presupun că nu.

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BeaAlighieri@reddit

Yeah it's icky, not "enlightened".

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Adventurous_Year9991@reddit

Any 40+ Serbian guy here?

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Glittery_Marshmallow@reddit

Where are you from?

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rawrr9@reddit

Does 39 count?

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amazingamy19@reddit (OP)

I hope your inbox is full with middle aged Serbs now. Good luck lol.

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ab3lla@reddit

i’m mixed (romanian and albanian) but i live in the west. in romania/albania i don’t think that they’re that popular

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cikeZ00@reddit

uhm,, hi lol

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Ok-Letter3775@reddit

I am married to a Bulgarian woman from Burgas. We get along well, our parents get along well, even though there are big language barriers.

The trends of mixed marriages is pretty new in Albania, however after the 90s it started getting more normal since alot of us migrated.

Nowadays only the incel part of the nationalistic parties (so pretty much everyone of them) would have anything against it.

As per which Balkan nationality we would preferably date, there is no right answer to that. However what I can say is that I would defo be surprised if someone from Albania would say they were dating someone from Serbia :D

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Big-Waltz5204@reddit

Happens. I have one aunt in my family that married a Serb. He is pretty cool chill guy though, I don't have a problem. In areas where people are still mixed it happens. Rare but it happens.

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GrogmarktheRag@reddit

Very common with other Balkan countries, and the former Eastern bloc in general. In particular the most common I'd say are Albanians, Serbians, Poles and Russians. There are of course more rare combinations too, but in general these are the most common.

In the Cyclades you can also find many Catholic-Orthodox marriages.

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