Inverse nationalism against Republika Srpska

The introduction explains the concept of inverse nationalism, then the first part of the paper lists some characteristic examples of inverse nationalism towards Republika Srpska, and the second part of the paper explains the context and the function of inverse nationalism towards Republika Srpska. All those factors that otherwise produce inverse nationalism in Serbia also operate in the case of the stigmatization of Republika Srpska in a part of our public opinion. The comparador intellectual and media elite, normalizing the (neo)colonial subjugation of Serbia in all domains of life, takes the supposedly endemic and (self)destructive "Serbian nationalism", and especially the "Serbian crimes" committed in the 1990s war, as the original sin that justifies the paternalism of (neo)colonial centers towards Serbia. Republika Srpska is a convenient subject within such an auto colonial narrative, as it unites the mythical "original sin" ("the Srebrenica genocide") with the main current ideological enemy - "Serbian nationalism" - as characterized by the pronounced national self-consciousness of the majority of Republika Srpska citizens.