I think that the ordinary Serbian is in fact barely interested in Kosovo, unless you specifically stimulate him. The problem of Kosovo is that the reality was long ago replaced by a mythical story that seeks no confirmation in reality. Serbians rarely travel to Kosovo. They barely know it, and when they talk about it they take their conclusions from a fund of myths that compensates for the lack of information on what is actually happening there. This irrationality had greatly invaded everyday speech in the months before the proclamation of independence, when the whole political scene was insisting that this would never happen, because Kosovo was part of Serbia. These stories never referred to the fact that over ninety per cent of the population living there are Albanians who refuse to accept the future that Serbia has planned for them. I would say that the average citizen remains to be acquainted with Kosovo.
