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Cope, and I fuck Albos.Maybe it was different for Albania but there was never any connection with the Turks because even the local rulers were Albanian. Add to that our lose connection to islam it didn't affect us. I would think it should have affected you less because of the religion. So you get this vague mass of people who barely have any contact with Turks or Europeans to be influenced on for centuries. People went by instinct so that didn't allow for outside influences. The Albanian monarchy who came after Ottoman Empire tried to be European but with a local flavor nonetheless. So did communism, we were isolated except for a brief period in the 50s with the Soviet Union so not a chance to be influenced much.
All this being said, we were different with one another as well. I see a big difference in lifestyle and mentality between neighboring regions of central Albania, the ghegs just above the river Shkumbin and the tosks just below it. And forget about differences with Kosovo after they emerged from ex Yugoslavia.
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