Touring the Vlach Villages of Greece

[Tauromachos]

Singer is Vlach from eastern Serbia. He looks stereotipically Romanian.

He looks like the Luciano Pavarotti of Balkans

[The Great Uniter]

I have some Aromanian ancestry, it's hard to tell how much.
My father's ancestors migrated to Romania prior the Balkan wars, more than 100 years ago.

I am technically half but still I am aware my paternal genetics were very dominant so I will put me up to 70%-75%~. I didn't inherited any of my mother's physical traits, not even her small-narrow forehead. I even have bigger and wider forehead than my father. Glad I didn't, my mother is lame and her ancestry (half of it) is lame and genetically regressive af.

[Pribislav]

He looks like the Luciano Pavarotti of Balkans

Proof that Romanians are real Latins!

[Dna8]

Note that this song is in Romanian, not Aromanian.

It's to be expected that a Serbian Vlach's singing sounds more Romanian than Aromanian..

[Dna8]

Seamen are not nomadic just because they work far away from home.
In the same way, you cannot call Vlachs nomadic only because men worked up the mountain in the summer.

Populations are nomadic only if the whole family is on the move.
Let's not repeat 19th century propagandistic bullshit. Vlachs were never nomadic.

The majority of Vlachs in the Balkans were transhumanists.. to call them nomadic carries inaccurate connotations..

The Megleno Vlachs in Macedonia were notable exceptions, being sedentary agriculturalists.

[Seya]

The majority of Vlachs in the Balkans were transhumanists.. to call them nomadic carries inaccurate connotations..

The Megleno Vlachs in Macedonia were notable exceptions, being sedentary agriculturalists.

here people still live like this in the mountainous areas and not only. shepherds take the sheep in early spring and bring them to the mountains where are the pastures. around late september the flocks start descending the mountain. they can travel up to 2 months to get there. it takes like 1000-1500km cose they can't take shortcuts. A flocks or a herds has a few thousand sheep. it's easier to come back cose the sheep are well fed and they are mostly descending.

[The Great Uniter]

here people still live like this in the mountainous areas and not only. shepherds take the sheep in early spring and bring them to the mountains where are the pastures. around late september the flocks start descending the mountain. they can travel up to 2 months to get there. it takes like 1000-1500km cose they can't take shortcuts. A flocks or a herds has a few thousand sheep. it's easier to come back cose the sheep are well fed and they are mostly descending.

How does this contribute to the thread?

[Dna8]

here people still live like this in the mountainous areas and not only. shepherds take the sheep in early spring and bring them to the mountains where are the pastures. around late september the flocks start descending the mountain. they can travel up to 2 months to get there. it takes like 1000-1500km cose they can't take shortcuts. A flocks or a herds has a few thousand sheep. it's easier to come back cose the sheep are well fed and they are mostly descending.

Exactly. That's why it is inaccurate when people here often describe Vlachs as nomadic. Transhumanists is a much better description.

[The Great Uniter]

Exactly. That's why it is inaccurate when people here often describe Vlachs as nomadic. Transhumanists is a much better description.

Dude, as a Vlach... I dedicately aim for transhumanism by my natural tendencies since this specifically speaks to me in so many levels. According to Wikipedia transhumanism is defined as "an international philosophical movement that advocates for the transformation of the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellect and physiology". I guess it's in our DNA-genetics (of some of us) to transcend our human weaknesses, fragilities, vulnarabilities and concretely achieve new enchanced states of both mind and body. I TRANSCEND MY OWN HUMANITY, JOJO!!!

[mustasiipi]

I think the word Dna8 was looking for is transhumance=the action or practice of moving livestock from one grazing ground to another in a seasonal cycle, typically to lowlands in winter and highlands in summer.