who do you feel closer to? Your linguistic relatives, or your neighbours?

[Dušan]

The pattern in this thread...
The Slavic, Romanian nations are picking religion
The Germanic, Albanian and Greek nations are picking linguistics...

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What lingiustic family could Albanians choose, when you are like lonely island with no relatives?

[Blondie]

B) French, Czechs, Poles, and Italians (Germany's non Germanic neighbours)

I forgot this part. I don't feel brothership with these nations maybe except France because of Frankish Empire and common statehood. Czechs are neutral, i like Slovakia and Croatia because i've been there many times (only once in Croatia) and i have good memories there. Poles were always friendly with me when i met with them in Budapest (i think just because they thought i'm hungarian ). Italy is neutral or maybe positive, i like their history and Roman Empire but their habit is totally strange for me. Serbs, ukrainians are also neutral.

[catgeorge]

Greek Islanders, Anatolian Greeks and anyone in the old very large Greek world that identifies themselves as such mostly in the new world now.

[valentinavalley2]

What lingiustic family could Albanians choose, when you are like lonely island with no relatives?

True we don’t have relatives, we can say Arberesh of Italy, but technically they are Albanians... or Arvanites of Greece, due to a shared language, but they’ve wronged us in the past, and consider themselves Greek so I don’t feel close to them.


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[Dušan]

There's no highway between any medium-sized city in Romania mate, something connecting us to a different country sounds more like from an utopic dimension.

You have built some highways recently, and connect with Hungary. We built highway Belgrade-Čačak recently and, there is plan to build toward Sarajevo and Banja Luka.

[Pribislav]

I feel close to Hungarians, but not to Italians.
And generally I feel close to other Slavs.

Hungary is natural because of my family, being there, speaking the language, but also mostly very positive common past. I feel very at home in HU.
In Italy (especially northern), I always felt very foreign. Don't know why, especially because my hometown has tons of (north) Italian influence. I feel closer to southern Italians, than to northern.

You are not real Dalmatian if you like more Hungarians than Italians.

You and me know what means these Dalmatian local words: domižana, kamara, kapula, brokva, čava, praska, marenda, katriga, ura, pijat, dota, škure, kušin, šugaman, gradele, šporko, drito, škale, šimatorija, šetemana, pržun, dišpet, murva... There is a to s of Italian origin words in Dalmatia even in part which is 50 km from the coast like my area. On the other hand there is no Hungarian origin words in Dalmatia.

[Aldaris]

Language, but only because it's link with ethnicity, so there are exceptions. That is, I wouldn't consider some Amerindian Bolivian to be my bro just because he speaks Spanish. Generally, when we talk about Slavs, Iberians, Germanics, etc, we don't consider them to be just a bunch of people, speaking related languages. The connection goes way deeper than that.

[Jana]

You are not real Dalmatian if you like more Hungarians than Italians.

You and me know what means these Dalmatian local words: domižana, kamara, kapula, brokva, čava, praska, marenda, katriga, ura, pijat, dota, škure, kušin, šugaman, gradele, šporko, drito, škale, šimatorija, šetemana, pržun, dišpet, murva... There is a to s of Italian origin words in Dalmatia even in part which is 50 km from the coast like my area. On the other hand there is no Hungarian origin words in Dalmatia.

There is: varoš

I feel no closeness exactly because Dalmatians are different planet compared to Venetians and Friulians. I am foreigner to my own city, which is basically like poor extension of northeast Italy.
North Adriatic region, where I grew up, is different world to Dalmatia. They are mentally much closer to Slovenians, Austrians and North Italians.

I generally don't feel closeness with Croats of North Adriatic either.
Dalmatians are much more like south Italians from Campania and Sicily, than like north Italians. Napoli is like gigantic Split. To them I feel some closeness although historically we were never in contact, unlike with Venetians.

Also I must mention I am mentally and culturally not pure Dalmatian (but that side predominates by far), as I was deeply influenced by my father, who is total Central European, born in Zagreb, grew up in Karlovac and Prague. I am big conflict of different cultures that clashed in me. And I also have Balkanic element my father passed on (he is as I said, classic Austro-Hunagrian man, but still loves Bosniak sevdah). My mother is mix of Med Islander and Balkan Vlach mentallity, but Vlach/Vlaj is strong in her and she takes biggest pride in it.

[Genovefa]

The only things that Romanians get from living in Italy are Gucci clothes and " como se dice *. Sometimes a superiority syndrome by feeling "more civilized" than us plebs. Can't take the Balkans out of us and that's proof enough for me.

Haha pretty much what my family tells me, "look, here we have a lot of money, the people are more civilized than Romanian peasants!! Isn't it better than that shithole, huh, huh???"

[Aldaris]

Haha pretty much what my family tells me, "look, here we have a lot of money, the people are more civilized than Romanian peasants!! Isn't it better than that shithole, huh, huh???"

Sounds kinda like self-hate, whether they realize it or not, tbh.