[Leica] A daily photo project (Slobodan Dimitrov)

[ljkapner at cox.net (Leonard J Kapner)]

Slobodan,

I suspect his self-identification is correct, especially since his last name
easily could be derived from "XPOBAT" in Cyrillic which means Croat in their
language...

Len
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From: lug-bounces+ljkapner=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+ljkapner=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Slobodan
Dimitrov
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 7:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] A daily photo project (Slobodan Dimitrov) 

Well, actually he identifies himself as a Croat. Although I'm of the opinion
that he's a slavonized Italian, or ?. Probably from an earlier era when
families changed identities, and moved to the marches, to escape to tax man,
or ignoble family histories.
France practices ex-parentis, one is forever the nationality of one's
father, as most European countries do, although citizenship can acquired,
but not without some difficulty.
Having lived there for 5 years myself as a child, I consider France my
intellectual and artistic home. My mother took my sister and I to various
cultural sites, and a deep dose of the Louvre, when one price accessed all,
semimonthly for a number of years. It was education that no amount of
institutional effort has been able to replicate.
S. Dimitrov


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