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Aleksandra Dulic
Serbia – MontenegroGALLERYCONVERSATION
Much of my personal and university education happened through peaceful walks around the streets of Belgrade with my professors, where, we...
I decided to leave my country, to leave the chaos. Many young men and women that found themselves in a middle of this chaos, which no one really wanted, inspired this decision. Now, most of my school and university friends are spread around the globe. This drain of young and educated people is another loss my country has had to deal with.
My grandparents lived in Serbia before I came to this world. The generation of my grandparents suffered from world wars in first half of twentieth century. However, my parents had peaceful upbringing and youth. In many ways they had many more opportunities.
I grew up in a communist country, where I got my university education for free. My mother had her education in architecture for free. My grandmother was a physicists, she got her education even before the communism. But communism definitely brought equality between men and women. So as a woman I never really needed to fight with men for equality.
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