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Abstract A cartoon appeared a couple of years ago in my local newspaper, purporting to explain ethnic violence in Eastern Europe. In it, a Western-suited man (Gorbachev) stands helplessly by as men in loose peasant blouses and cummerbunds (the ’Zugs’) massacre each other in the street. ’Why do we kill each other?’ reads the legend below, ’Because it’s our nature!’ In this cartoon, bloodshed is explained in terms of instinct, or ’nature’, and the violent men are obviously denizens of a Europe that does not fit into the cartoonist’s conception of Western civilization. They are peas ants, rural folk who have not grasped modernity’s message of reason.
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