Ja_Ja wrote:To da su Bosanci donijeli kriminal i smece je najblaze receno netacno. Bosanci su revitalizirali cijelu juznu stranu (south side) od nje napravili jedan od najlijepsih dijelova grada za zivot. Stopa kriminala je relativno niska a cistoca nasih ljudi DALLEKKOO poznata. Ukoliko se provozas St. Louisom sigurno mozes da prepoznas kuce u kojim zive nasi ljudi jer su sve od reda uredno sredjene, sa lijepim vrtovima i cvijecem dok za nase domacine se ne moze bash isto tvrditi. Od jedne rusevne zone (South City) s prosjecnom cijenom kuce od $30.000 (1999 godine), Bosanci su napravili jednu prosperitetnu eriju gdje je danas srednja vrijednost kuce $132.000.
Uglavnom ukoliko mislish na djecu neces puno razmisljati o preseljenju jer ovdje imas sve uslove da ti malisani odrastaju u jednoj atmosferi koja je priblizna onoj u kojoj smo mi odrastali kao djeca u BiH.
To sam i ja cuo.
Inace, malo poguglao i nasao ovo:
Bosnian paper finds its people are here
By Eun Kyung Kim
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
02/09/2006
When Sukrija Dzidzovic came to St. Louis last summer to survey the Bosnian community, he chatted up business owners and their patrons, trying to decide whether to transfer his own company to the area. By the end of his two-week visit, it was a no-brainer.
"St. Louis has the largest Bosnian community," said Dzidzovic, founder and publisher of SabaH, the largest U.S.-based Bosnian language newspaper. "We want to be closer to our people, our community."
Within a month, Dzidzovic moved his staff from New York City to the Bevo Mill neighborhood, the heart of the Bosnian community.
SabaH becomes the third Bosnian-language newspaper based in St. Louis and the latest addition to a growing list of Bosnian-language media in the area. Those include a handful of radio shows and a local cable television program. Their presence reinforces what St. Louis Bosnians have been saying for years: They are part of the world's largest Bosnian population outside of Europe.
SabaH, which means "sunrise," joins Peta Strana Svijeta ("Fifth Side of the World") and Dijaspora Bosnjacka (Bosnian Diaspora), the only paper of the three that originated in St. Louis.
Political news from the Balkans is the main staple of all three newspapers, although an increasing number of pages are being filled with coverage of events in Chicago, New York, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Mich., and other cities with large Bosnian populations.
Murat Muratovic, Dijaspora's publisher, pointed out that while many American newspapers include major news from Bosnia, day-to-day information is harder to find.
"They are so hungry for information in Bosnia," Muratovic said. "The war in Bosnia - yeah, it's stopped, but a political solution never came, and almost every day there is some new information. It's very important to know what's going on."
All three newspapers are distributed throughout the United States and in Canada. According to their publishers, the circulation for SabaH, the only weekly publication, is 15,000; for Peta Strana Svijeta, which publishes every other week, is 10,000; and for the monthly Dijaspora is 5,000.
Amir Hotich, marketing director and a frequent contributor for Peta Strana Svijeta, said he views the popularity of Bosnian media, particularly the radio shows, as a sign of a healthy community no longer isolated in their adopted home.
"They don't feel lonely anymore. They have something to hope for during the day, during the week, during the weekend," said Hotich, who owns a south St. Louis travel agency and hosts a radio show on Sundays. "When we first came to this country, we had no papers, we had no radio, we had nothing. Now we have matured as a community."
Ajlina Karamehic, an assistant professor at St. Louis University's School of Public Health, said she frequently advertises in Dijaspora when she needs to recruit research subjects or publicize a health-related event. She said the ads often generate a great response.
Bosnian newspapers provide "U.S.-based information, but also news from Bosnia. It's definitely a mixture of both, and that's what makes it interesting," she said. "It's a way of staying in touch with your culture, while at the same time, staying involved in life here, in the Bosnian activities here."
Dzidzovic, a refugee who settled in New York in 1995, founded his newspaper two years after his arrival as a way to connect a burgeoning Bosnian population. With $50 and a borrowed scanner, he ran the business out of a bedroom in his Astoria, N.Y., apartment. He intended to publish a paper strictly for New York and New Jersey residents, but demand quickly spread to other states.
"This surprised me. The newspaper just overgrew me," said Dzidzovic, a photographer by trade.
Dzidzovic said when he visited St. Louis last July, he was struck by the city's lower cost of living and the ability to "go anywhere within 15 minutes" by car. He also said St. Louis is within a four-hour driving radius of other cities with major Bosnian populations.
Dzidzovic knows his relocation means he is operating in a more competitive environment, but he welcomes the challenge.
"I'd be glad to see one more weekly. It will push me up," he said. "If you don't have competition, you lay down on the job."
Bosnian refugees in St. Louis
On Feb. 23, 1993, the first of what would become a flood of Bosnian refugees arrived in St. Louis seeking to escape a war that was tearing apart the former Yugoslavia. Local refugee resettlement agencies eventually sponsored more than 11,000 Bosnian refugees to St. Louis, one of about two dozen cities designated by the U.S. State Department as a resettlement site for those fleeing the Balkans conflict.
As time passed, many resettled Bosnians moved to St. Louis from New York, Chicago and other cities. Reasons given were to be nearer friends and family and for more affordable housing and better jobs.
The 2000 Census reported that there were 5,000 Bosnians in St. Louis. But community and refugee experts estimate the St. Louis Bosnian population anywhere from 35,000 to 60,000, which would make the city home to one of the largest concentrations of Bosnians outside of Europe.
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