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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Dao Bog da se ne vratio! (God Forbids You Return!)
When I emigrated from Croatia long time ago, and my father visited me, he asked me whether I had heard the expression: "God forbids you return!". I didn't know the saying.
Its origin is from Dalmatia, Croatia. People there were so poor that when somebody succeeded to buy a ship ticket, or got the job at one so he would be able to leave the place, their parents and everybody who wished him well would wish him to stay there, not to return ever in this misery and poverty.
It is hard to understand all the connotations here, but everybody who is a parent knows the feeling when their daughter or son leaves the home let alone the country. And those uneducated, simple people, who did not have any background to hide there feelings, would wish that to their only child.
I came back in Croatia three years ago. I wish my father told me the saying before I have decided to come back.
Its origin is from Dalmatia, Croatia. People there were so poor that when somebody succeeded to buy a ship ticket, or got the job at one so he would be able to leave the place, their parents and everybody who wished him well would wish him to stay there, not to return ever in this misery and poverty.
It is hard to understand all the connotations here, but everybody who is a parent knows the feeling when their daughter or son leaves the home let alone the country. And those uneducated, simple people, who did not have any background to hide there feelings, would wish that to their only child.
I came back in Croatia three years ago. I wish my father told me the saying before I have decided to come back.
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