ABSTRACT
This chapter reveals the distant view related to a series of issues such as the manipulation of the past, the power of religious symbolism and so on. It also reveals that the emphasis on ethno-national myths, simple exaggerations, self-praise, invented ethno-national identifications, the role of political parties and the power of symbolic expressions are necessary to establish a framework for understanding diaspora-based nationalist discourses. The 'distant view' allows these processes to follow a different development from similar ones in the homeland. The chapter intends to answer the question: how and to what extent are second generation individuals of Croatian and Slovenian backgrounds challenged by the ethno-nationalist ideas of the diaspora settings. In the diaspora, one of the most controversial of such symbols is the picture of Ante Pavelic, its leader; he is commonly referred to in relation to genocidal practices, mainly against the Serbs, during the existence of the Independent State of Croatia.
