balkanism
Noun
Meaning
A word, phrase or other linguistic or cultural feature originating or being geographically confined to the region of Balkans.
(politics) Discourse promoting the pejorative political and cultural stereotype of the Balkans.
balkanism (countable and uncountable, plural balkanisms)
Alternative letter-case form of Balkanism
Examples
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.