Geographical limit between Balkan and Central Europe
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- čas přidán 8. 08. 2008
- Slavoj Zizek shows us the official geographical limit between Balkan and Central Europe!
From 'Liebe Dein Symptom wie Dich selbst':
• Liebe Dein Symptom wie... - Komedie
The fact that his English did not improve a single bit in 14 years is quite impressive.
And it shall never improve it's part of his character at this point
He probably absorbed all his English through the movies he binged for like 6 months and was like, "Yeah, good enough" and it never changed
@@MM-vs2et What do you mean? His English is perfect. Are you guys just ripping on his accent or what?
no one need to speek english without accent if theyre not required for formal companies
@@jamesevans2507 Yes of course. His english is miles better than native speakers. It's just that he still sounds like that today.
Fun fact: Wherever you go in the ex-Yugoslavia people will tell you their city is the last Central European city and everything southeast is Balkan.
Can confirm, I'm from croatia, and I say that
Tbf a lot of cities are on the rivers that mark the boundary. Ljubljana, Belgrade, Zagreb, Novi Sad, all of them are on the boundaries
Almost. Its called South-East Europe, and Greece and part Italy would be south Europe. I would call all ex yu countries Balkan countries though, even though Slovenia is nothing like Serbia or Albania for example. Id say Slovenia gets a Balkan pass, and the mentality of both Croatian and Serbians is pretty much the same- both are horrible. Im croatian.
@@ludwigvonn9889 there is actually a video where zizek himself explains this, you can search for "where is balkan".
@@ludwigvonn9889half of slovenia is geographically in the balkans. Their wanted city, Trieste also lies in the balkans. Out of all of the balkan people they are the most progressive and sophisticated. But they still have the balkan temper, and are not as boring or cold as czechs, slovaks or germans.
To me they are balkan, but with one foot in the balkans and the other foot in central europw
*"It looks like Paris - green leaves etc."*
-Slavoj Zizek 1996
"Nothing special"
@@VersusARCHHonestly Paris isn't that special. Coming from Germany it's just another city.
@@cyan_oxy6734 coming from germany you call paris "just another city"? lol.
@@musicnlove911 Paris is indeed just another city. Rome did it better.
@@DevonMiniFlicks Absolutely. Cope
Back when he said "Et cetera" and not "And so on"
0:16 “on both sides, nice old houses, nothing special” 🤣
and what? is that incorrect?
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Back when his nose hadn't given up on live
Before he start sniffing coke.
The limit between Balcon and Mittle Europa, of course!
I prefer chillin on my balcon
it s not the border...it s the limit
@Davide Graffieti *Mitteleuropa
So if i jump from one side of the river to the water, am i doing some Balconing? xdd
Отсылка к кайзеррейху?
Whenever I get depressed and/or (spontaneously) consider suicide
I watch this video, so I remember there is always a bridge between the balkon and mittle europa
At times you may feel like the Balkans, but always remember: Central Europe is just a bridge away.
@@Reichsritter MITTEL EVROPA
Limit, not bridge
imagine jumping off the bridge between balkon and mittle europa. not even to die just to have a nice little swim down there
Hear hear
Almost forgot to watch this today. Greetings from Balkon!
Ah, a civilized balkon discussion
@@madmasseur6422 only in balkon :)
Have a good week!
@Abraham Villalobos well, technically almost half of Serbia is within mitteleuropa, a the other half is "balcon" LOL
Del balcón??? Pero qué dices???
"nothing special EEH!! but you are wronk"
W-r-r-ronk
One of the most beautiful views in Ljubljana, green leaves, looks like Paris, nice old houses - nothing special 😂
Vronk !
@@VersusARCHParis? More like berries 🍇🍓🫐🍒
4 years later that EEH!! still cracks me up
I live in Ljubljana and it's true. I rarely dare cross the river.
You live on Europe, civilization side? 😂
@@AliceDiableaux
What then, indeed.
@Enes GÜLER Ljubljanica river
@Enes GÜLER it's called Šentjakobski most
So you're saying you like it?
This man is the modern equivalent of Diogenes.
he realy is
and Daffy Duck.
Diogenes was based this guy is a clown for anyone with over 120 iq .
He isn't. Diogenes liked to live outside society. This man however does love to get busy with societal issues
@@entelektuel.yolculuk Diogenes lived in society as well, he lived as a street dog but he lived in society nonetheless.
any off the grid man today was less part of society than Diogenes
Betwen Balkon and mittle evropa
@Stingy Jew
Don't forgetti*
Can i know history of your avatar plox???
He speaks London very well
And there's a "Translate to English" option LOL
Which translats Balkon to balcony!😂@@manwiththeredface7821
Today I finally visited Ljubljana and found this bridge, it really looks like Paris, with green leafs and beautiful old houses😂 Thank you Zizek for showing us this wonderful place and explaining its meaning😂
Where is this bridge? Thanks
@@asafcassuto9152 It's called the St. James Bridge
@@stormcrown96 Thank you very much
@@stormcrown96 Nope, It's St. Jakob's Bridge (Šentjakobski in Slovene).
@@asafcassuto9152 It's in Ljubljana
This is peak comedy
@Søren Cast Thank you, I was going for a Days of Thunder kinda look. Honestly too lazy to change it.
It's like they say the truth makes the greatest jokes.
Charles G fuck yeah my mans
@@livedandletdie it's not the truth. that's the exact opposite, he satirizes the western orientalism
This view is still held unironically today by so many Europeans. This joke might never get old.
Balkan isnt Europe
@@karlscher5170 I am afraid I have news for you, and you aren't gonna like it.
@@darklordbingus8705 EU isnt Europe. Europe is a culture and a mentality not present in Balkan.
@@karlscher5170 Thank god for that
@@karlscher5170 Actually Europe is a continent located on the Eurasian plate. What you are speaking of is Western European philosophy, which isn't exactly as homogenous as you are making it out to be. The Spanish have quite a different philosophy and mentality as the French as the German etc. Implying that the Western European set of philosophies and the Balkan set of philosophies are irreconcilable with each other is exactly what holds both sides of this ideological conflict back.
So I basically walk from central europe to the balkans every work day.
Felipe Motta A
Schrödinger’s European.
Hahaha.
You work on Mad Max's Wasteland but lives in Wonderland.
@@fmotta4 in today's setting this and everything else he says could be said for Istanbul and could still be relevant, lol
Another Middle-European work migrant clogging our glorious Balkans job market xD
He didn’t touch his nose one single time...
Almost didn't recognize him
And it was cold as fuck. How does that make sense?
His tics are getting worse as he ages.
No drink for you
It's in the outtakes. 4 straight hours of him touching his face.
The music in the ending makes me uncomfortable
90s serial killer documentary
Is the interval
Nah man, that’s the comfy Slav mystery music during cheesy Soviet era TV.
@@ivyssauro123 one semitone higher...
Its a tritonus
Me in 2019:
CZcams: Hey, wanna watch this video from 2008 about the geographic limit of Balkan and middle Europe?
*Balcon and "Mittel"europa
Me in 2019:
Some random moron: writes an original comment about youtube recommendation
hhahahaahha🤣
Thank you youtube recommendation
Why complain, when the answer was obviously yes? 🤣
Next destination Balkon
The ottomans in the 12th century be like:
No no, not you again piss off lol
@@bya22666
Even Balkan women are disgusted by dirty polluted Turks.
Balkon means balcony in Germany 😂
Hidden in this funny commentary is a good idea that Zizek would expand upon later: “Balkan-ness” is largely a matter of self-perception. The Balkans is by now basically a shorthand for chaos and dysfunction and no one wants to be characterized by those things. In this video he implicitly points out the absurdity of having a fixed geographical border demarcate such a fluid cultural designation - as if the river in Ljubljana actually splits civilization from barbarism
I feel like he's also commenting on the ubiquity of patriarchal oppression and how it's present even in supposedly civilized countries
@@user-mb9rh2iz5l true, the part about women getting raped and liking it/not liking it does seem to be ironically pointing out that things aren’t actually that different between the two cultural spheres
nothing at all in his delivery hints at satire or irony
@@treyebillups8602 While you are right that it does, it also links it back to the original comment with how it's a matter of self perception since there are a lot of implications regarding one's view of self dignity and self perception with chaos and exploitation in the balkan modern zeitgeist. He craftily delineates the line between reality and what we commonly accept as reality in cultural perceptions. If anything, it becomes far too easy to defer chaos, dysfunction and instability to one geo-social region on the European continent, and pretend the rest of it is faultless. It's amazing and terrible what centuries of social, economic, cultural and historical clashing can have on a region of people once modern states became a thing and they were forced to try to live with each other.
we saw the video bro
This might be my favorite video on all of youtube.
Hey baby, take a walk on the wild side!
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose.
I said hey honey
Brown side
@@ehonda7831 The non-retarded side.
isthat loureed？
*I wish I had a great geography teacher like Žižek. Slava, Slavoj! ;)*
I wish I had a great teacher like you. You could teach anything you want to me.
@@Yetipfote
Really? Awww, thanks. You are really sweet. But according to my students I am a *strict* teacher, so you should be careful with your wishes. ;)
@@RoseRoseRoseRoseRoseRose I deserve your harsh strictness, Ms. teacher! It will be just right for me!
@@Yetipfote
Are you sure?
Then sit down!!!!!!! 😂
@@RoseRoseRoseRoseRoseRose *sits down immediately*
0:42 Slavoj smirks
слава титек
And I'm wet
he's so cute
😳
at the end, look how pleased he is with himself as he rushes off with the microphone :)))
I saw the thumbnail and thought: "What is Mark Hamil doing there?"
Same
His distinction between the two... "on this side women get beaten and raped and they like it... on this side women get beaten amd raped and they dont like it." 😂😂😂
Makes you wonder which is really better 🤔
@@Agustin_LealClearly, at least the women in the Balkans are enjoying themselves.
My favorite part of the video
I love Zizek because of his autheticity, if there wasn't any zizek, we would have to invent him ahahah
@Richard Kuklinski ma volim i sise. Ali stvarno? Hahaha
@Richard Kuklinski sisić, siska hahaha, hvala na enlightmentu 😅
I always wondered what would it be like if Zizek had confronted the invading Arabs.
"On this side women get beaten and raped but don't like"
I'm...this is...the epitome of poetry
My favorite part of the video
This is a good irony on western orintalism.
Amazing, that comment is 14 years old!
@tudormardare66 it's a museum piece
Amazing . Pure ideology
Do you understand sarcasm? He made fun of all the western propaganda about Balkan.
DataLog you asking me if I understand sarcasm after the comment I made is the most ironic thing . Take your time and work it out, don’t hurt yourself 😂
@@lityerambidextrous3668 Your comment closely resembled average Peterson's fanboy, it was an honest mistake.
DataLog quite taking yourself so seriously mate 😂 we’re just havin fun here
@@DataLog lmao i'm a peterson fanboy and knew immediately it was a joke lol that is in no way related to anything peterson says. maybe it's just you that's a moron
So he actually explained Andrew Tate's reasoning to choosing where to live huh
ikr
Bruh
Lmao Romania isn’t entailed Balkan though. Culturally it’s a lot more like Central Europe. So good try 😂
@@sikerslalatm3147 culturaly its defenetly more balkan
@@sikerslalatm3147 Are you stupid?
I finally visited Ljubljana this year. This is my favorite city. No kidding. I was on this bridge. It changed a lot in a good way. Very beatiful!
Hvala za topel sprejem!
... But no femboys right.
I am a Turk and if you ask an average Istanbulite they'll explain the strait exactly like this video except Mitteleuropa is replaced with Thrace and Balkan replaced with Asia
Aferin ülkene laf çaktın ödül kazandın
@@ahskal8592 Knk türkiye sadece istanbuldan ibaret değil istanbullular öle sansada
selam kardeşim
batıya doğru domal bakalım
"EÄÄH!, But you are wrong!" gets me every time 😂😂
*vronk
If i weren't Alexander, i would have wished to be Zizek.
well spoken
If Zizek weren't Zizek, he would also want to be Zizek
Now move, you're blocking my sun.
Nice
I came here looking for copper and I found gold
This video has a Woody Allen feel to it.
Agreed
Well both read Kierkegaard...
@@Nowhy and Lacan
Communist Woody Allen?
Wow Zizek looks so young! I’ve never seen him this young before!!!!!
Žižek is like your parents or grandparents when you're a kid and the thought that they were once young(er) never even crosses your mind and you're totally blown away when you see a picture of their young selves for the first time
"Nothing special eh! But you are wrong..." 😂
*vronk
Any german heard that he accidentally said „Balkon“ = „Balcony“ instead of „Balkan“. Since he speaks many languages he probably confused them.
Балкон in Russian sounds similar, but he said it like some kind of French accent, while the second word was German one, so it was a bit strange
It's also balcony in Serbo-Croatian and I assume his native tongue of Slovenian since it's very similar and he speaks both languages
He also said the German term Mitteleuropa instead of "Central Europe"
@@Dikkeganzenclub Also, in German it would be pronounced mittel Oi-ropa.
@@CugnoBrasso Yeah but he's not German so it's no wonder he's mispronouncing it. Mitteleuropa could just be the standard scientific term in the field he's familiar with. It's not as if, for example, Common Law jurists pronounce "Rechtsstaat" correctly, but they do use the word.
Balcon!
I lived right next to this river on both sides, but never knew that this is the “border” :)
There are multiple border
Croats have their own for instance rivers Korana and Sava
Why does CZcams keep recommending me raccoon videos?
Because you're a fucking moron
I'm just here for Momoi.
What did she do that would lead you here?
Through that bridge we can escape in the paradise, dont give up Balkan people, one day we can all afford new Opel!!!
BALKANS UNITE!
New Opel's! That's too much man.
One side its basically fucked shit
While the other its newly fucked shit
no need for new opel when you can steal a mercedes
@@bahadrozturk2086 Opel, singular. May be possible one day if you pool your money.
This is my favorite video on the internet right now
Best Geography lesson. I've ever had 😅
Philosopher Borat Explores Europe
Lmao
the dude beat peterson in a debate and he acts like a 70s sitcom character
2008: No
2009: No
2010: No
2011: No
2012: No
2013: No
2014: No
2015: No
2016: No
2017: No
2018: No
2019: Sure, why not?
ikr?
Maybe you just watched Jordan Peterson?
It trended before a few years ago
I love this comment. So unique and original. Wow!
@@DeckerBens thanks :3
this is Zizek's best video
how can you not love him?
Because amplified mouthful of saliva strongly interferes whatever he wants to communicate
I'm surprised that he walks off towards Mitteleuropa :)
t. Slomemia
hehpillt28 haha ebin X--D
8int reunion
Thanks for the geography lesson 👍
Danke Slavoj, höchst gekühlt.
😂 I actually appreciate this being in my suggested tab.
im so happy to see that Zizek has enjoyed us for like 15 years on youtube😊
Needed this
Ein typischer europäischer Intellektueller der alles vom Leben weiß insbesondere über das zwischenmenschliche, über Frauen und Männer. Alle Bücher hat er gelesen.
Nice one
Its the rendering limit, similar to morrowind
I'm happy this guy waited until 2019 to show me this, I wouldn't have been ready any other time
That "we can begin" tho 😂
Thank you for this very clear and useful presentation.
When he's not talking of Lacan he talks of Balcan, casuality or causality?
He's talking about the causality of caucasian caucusses.
I was initially very confused to see Zizek hosting a travel show, but now I understand. I understand everything.
I watch this every day for some reason ever since finding this video
Best clip on this entire site!
I couldn't forget that
Balkon.
*No one:*
*CZcams:* Slavoj explains geographic limit between Balkan and Eastern Europe, with commentary on social differences
Central...
EH! But you are wrong!
@@user-li8wj3lt2l CENTRAL
It's a commentary on western orientalism, not "social differences"
@@TheManinBlack9054 > western orientalism
I looked for this video to explain western "intellectuals" who believe that Ukraine was tricked into Maidan and NATO application that eastern europeans are people with agency and drive too.
Orientalism is not dead.
Very informative
This man would never get canceled
because he never contests anything real
aged like milk @@theokingshango
@@sero662what happened?
they tried to cancel him because of what he said at he frankfurter book fair@@romawar
Balkan ("Balcon") and Mitteleuropa ("Mittleuropa") are the German Words for Balkan and Central Europe
I don't recall ever saying Balkon
No germans call it Balkan too
In german Balkon means balcony and Balkan means Balkan
If I'm not mistaken Germans say Mitteleuropa*
Balkong (pronounced like in the video) is the Swedish word for "balcony".
amazing vibes
This is so great
Danke für die deutschen Untertitel.
Thx for the German subtitles.
Awesome respect 👍 for all of our Europe i am Portuguese from Portugal .I visit balkan peninsula / southeast Europe and they are like chill people and their sense of humour is also great .
That outro was epic
"It looks like Paris, green leaves, etc., on both sides, old houses, nothing special..."
when i'm sad i watch this video and it helps!
Certified hood classic
CZcams suggestions have made quite a different approach and i already like it...
I bet he knows Tommy wiseau from the European balcon.
You are just a chicken, cheep cheep cheep cheep
What balkan is he from? I guess Moldava, but all I know is he ain’t albanian, for sure.
I love this man.
That’s when his nose hadn’t started to irritate him yet
Why do we keep getting recommended videos from so long ago but they’re always good?
😂😂😂
Excellent 👌
Zizek 🛐
EH, bat yew arr wrongk!
Every Zizek clip I watch gets increasingly more deranged and I love it
Alright, this is officially my favorite piecie of Źiźek's activity now.
Thanks youtube, now I have another video in my favourites to look at when I'm feeling down
Wow_mao bros unite
I fucking love this guy.
Thanks for recommending this to me youtube
im moving to ljubljana in january. i/ve been waiting nearly a decade to cross this bridge
I had watched this video a couple of years ago and had no clue this dude was famous
*_Holy shit. That's Slavoj Zizek!_*
I like the slavoj zizek jingle at the end
Notice how he looked around to make sure no one can hear him.