Originally Posted by
Aspar
Than who has anything to do with Macedonia?
Greeks only?
Just because they speak Greek?
How do we define the relationship with Macedonia?
Is it only on cultural level or should we take another factors as well in account?
Not to mention that the Greek Macedonians and the Slavic Macedonians are genetically undistinguishable(at least those Slavic Macedonians with roots from Greek Macedonia or the southern parts of today's Rep. Of Macedonia).
Also do you know how many Greek speaking people were assimilated after they moved in our country when the Communists lost in Greece?
Or how many Aromanians are assimilated in our ethnos as well?
For example, I already knew about some Aromanian heritage of mine, but I didn't know that my paternal line is also of Aromanian origin...
All my close matches are Aromanians.
The point I am trying to say is that doesn't matter the language we are speaking, we are all Macedonians because we are born in Macedonia and have Macedonian blood.
The cultural divide is only a reflection of the past, as the Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantine Empire were exchanging rule in Macedonia, and both have applied assimilatory politics that were ongoing even until the last century when many Slavic speaking Macedonians in Greece, were prohibited of speaking their own language!
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