No matter what the daily way of life is in Serbia for an individual, life tends
to revolve around family, which is why most people work in the first place. Most
evenings and weekends (Saturday-Sunday) are spent with family, either around the
dinner table or elsewhere. This is especially true in more rural areas where entertainment
options are lacking. In the cities there are plenty of ways to entertain one's
self and the social scenes in these places is quickly growing as friends are hugely
important and more time is spent with friend than family among many people.
Identity
Serbs are proud of being Serbs and identify as such, but
what it means to be a Serb is changing. This identity is primarily defined by being
an ethnic Serb, but also implies the person speaks Serbian and is a Serbian Orthodox
Christian. Citizenship and other cultural aspects of Serbs may also be included
in the definition to varying degrees. Among the ethnic minorities in Serbia, most
also identify first with their ethnicity, however in the case of the Bosniaks and
Croatians the biggest difference between the groups is religion. Although all three
argue each has a distinct ethnicity and language, others would argue all three are
ethnically and linguistically identical, meaning their biggest difference is in
terms of religion and perception, both of which strongly influence culture. Today
there is no doubt all of these people have distinct differences that expand beyond
just religious differences and well into the cultural realm.