He of course fell back on the deeply racist premise of different "cultures."
Carrol
From the Zizek guy.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v21/n06/zize2106.htm
>...But there is also a 'reflexive', politically correct racism: the
liberal, multiculturalist perception of the Balkans as a site of ethnic
horrors and intolerance, of primitive, tribal, irrational passions, as
opposed to the reasonableness of post-nation-state conflict resolution by
negotiation and compromise. Racism is a disease of the Balkan Other, while
we in the West are merely observers, neutral, benevolent and righteously
dismayed.
Michael Pugliese