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"The boundaries among religions were not completely permeable, however, and coexistence did not mean toleration. "The Armenian (and the Greek) were dogs and pigs... to be spat upon," notes a British ethnographer in the late nineteenth century. Even before then, members of the ruling religion were often contemptuous in daily speech of the "infidel dogs." Travelers were impressed by the variety of insults in general use:"
The Balkans - A Short Story. Mark Mazower 

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