Serbs can't be all bad, can they?

It's looking more and more likely that I'll be spending the next two years in Serbia or the Serb part of Bosnia working with old ladies who hate war and patriarchy or college students who love trees and rivers.

My primary concern right now is my own prejudices and ignorance. Most of my knowledge of the Serbs comes from decade-old news reports and other accounts of the ethnic conflict during Yugoslavia's disentigration. In all of that, Serbs, especially Bosnian Serbs, are the bad guys. They raped and murdered and pillaged. And I might be living and working with them.

So I'm trying to find a book, movie, etc. that can reassure me that Serbs are not all bad guys. I went to the library in search of such things yesterday and was not too successful. Everything about Serbia is about the war. All of it is about how the Serbs were bad, their collective guilt, etc., etc., etc. I did find a book about how the Serbs really aren't responsible at all for the massacre of Bosnian Muslims. That isn't what I'm after either.

I just need to find something about how Serbs love their mothers and don't kick puppies too often. Something that will reassure me that I can live amongst them, successfully find some friends. I've decided that fiction might be most promising. I put a collection of Serbian short stories on hold.