Why do so many Bulgarians on this page consider themselves ethnically slavic?

[Florin2000]

Bulgarians are literally closer to Greeks than Poles genetically and are also less genetically slavic than us.

Also for example, a half south italian and half north german is half med half germanic. On other hand, average Bulgarian "slav" is more med than slavic genetically.

[Ion Basescul]

Why wouldn't they? No Slavic group is purely ethnically Slavic. All are mixed.

[Vožd]

You ask why are they ethnically Slavic, while talking about genetics. Bulgarians speak Slavic language, have Slavic names and surnames, have a lot of Slavic traditions etc. so they are ethnically Slavic.

[Florin2000]

Why wouldn't they? No Slavic group is purely ethnically Slavic. All are mixed.

a lot of Czechians consider themselves germanic or germanic-slavic. You never see bulgarians claiming anything other than slavic, it's weird.

[Florin2000]

You ask why are they ethnically Slavic, while talking about genetics. Bulgarians speak Slavic language, have Slavic names and surnames, have a lot of Slavic traditions etc. so they are ethnically Slavic.

So nigerians and black americans are anglos because they speak english? And senegalese are french? And all the 3rd generation africans living in France are french?? Mutts are french, english too?? Ahahha. Ethnicity=Genetics, and you damn well know that my fellow balkanite

[Abriekman]

It is all about language, but many Bulgarians, who know genetics identify themselves as Mediterraneans, because non-Slavic part is quite southern. If there were not Bulgarian samples on genetic calculators they would be modelled as 50% Sicilian/Cypriot/Jewish + 50% Polish/Ukrainian in mixed mode results.

[Rethel]

Why do so many Bulgarians on this page consider themselves ethnically slavic?

Becasue in huge majority they are Slavs and slavicized since forgotten times people.

[Ion Basescul]

a lot of Czechians consider themselves germanic or germanic-slavic. You never see bulgarians claiming anything other than slavic, it's weird.

I heard Thracian and Thraco-Slavic irl

[Vožd]

So nigerians and black americans are anglos because they speak english? And senegalese are french? And all the 3rd generation africans living in France are french?? Mutts are french, english too?? Ahahha. Ethnicity=Genetics, and you damn well know that my fellow balkanite

But Bulgarians are half Slavic genetically, or at least over 1/3.

[pelikarski]

You never see bulgarians claiming anything other than slavic, it's weird.

Are you stupid?