RMK wrote:
stefanos.gr wrote:
maknews wrote:
What's wrong if a Greek speaker of Arvanite or Vlach heritage says they are Greek of Arvanite or Vlach heritage? Why are people in Greece so self-loathing that they can't even do something as simple as this?
Why do the Macedonians in Greece refer to their cousins and uncles and aunts in Macedonia as "Serbs" and "Slavs"? Who taught these people to be so stupid that they don't even know the heritage of their own blood relatives?
If we are ethnic Macedonians it is because we have been living continuously in Macedonia for the last 1500 years. You can't say the same thing about the prosfyges who have only been in Macedonia for 80 years or less.
I acknowledge that the prosfyges and their offspring have acquired a Greek national identity, but I don't for a second accept the nonsensical history that the Greek government attributes to these new immigrants.
Lubi, most arvanites i know and all the vlachs i know, are proud for their arvanite or vlach heritage. They elders also use to sing and dance their folklor songs. The key is that they do not accept that being arvanite or vlach, is something that differentiates you ethnically. Of course the pontians are very proud as well for their pontian origin and they got mad if you claim they are n't ethnic greeks being pontians.
FUNNY HERE (CANADA) THEY CLAIM ETHNIC MACEDONIAN AND GREEK ! THEY TEND TO FORGET TO FILL IN THE GAPS BY CHOICE !
Living abroad you will be very often questioned of what's your ethnicity, where are you from, whats your origin etc. Living in your own country you may wont be questioned for years.
Anyway, i never heard anyone to say "i am macedonian" or "greek macedonian". When a greek asks another one where is he from he means which part of the country.
"Kritikos ise re? Kala to katalava". (r u a cretan. i knew it)
"Peloponisios e? Hamutzis?"
or you can hear "Pontios ise?" (r u pontian)