Scurtă introducere în paremiologia muntenegreană din perspectiva stereotipurilor şi prejudecăţilor sud-slave
Brief introduction to Montenegrin paremiology from the perspective of South Slavic stereotypes and prejudices

Summary/Abstract: In most of these sayings, words of wisdom and proverbs attributed to Montenegrin population, they are described as: self-sufficient, uneducated, lazy, vain, demanding, primitive, reductionist, traditionalists and stingy. However, these traits and characteristics are only ethnic stereotypes and prejudices or typical aspects applied of their neighbors to them. The analysis of such "folk" Montenegrins are placed in terms of Balkan ethno-psychological behavior with: Bosnian, Albanian and Cretans, and into a large European context with: Scottish, Welsh and Swiss. Placing us in a neutral position and unapproved the point view of the above, we believe that every people has qualities, all together forming its specific ethno-cultural and ethno-psychological matrix in that case a mixture of Slavic-Albano-Wallach population organized under the principle of clans, large families or tribes whose single purpose was to preserve at all costs their ruled territory and transmission through oral history the tribe genealogy and its heroic struggle. Sheltered by terrain and own tribe on the one hand and the cultural traditions deep rooted in the collective mind, on the other hand, they consider themselves to were unique. Perhaps of these psychological qualities, others regarded them with awe, admiration, contempt and curiosity. However, these ethno-psychological qualities and many other specific to the highlander populations were well preserved until the beginning of the XX century, but these are missing meantime because Montenegrin society had supported such very profound mutations during modernization. This modernization shock made them unable to answer on their particular manner, offering their neighbors an unexpected rematch to ridicule and taunt their behavior.

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