[tied] Re: Indo-Iranian

George, I the meanwhile I got the flu. You will get your replies
tomorrow. But you know what, your questions imply a lot of
interpretation and not so much restating of the facts. I guess
what you expect is my personal opinion and not some
generalization on what Bulgarians think about it? I could not
possibly read thoughts, nor can I (or you, for that matter) read the
thoughts of Macedonians. We can only theoretize on the subject.
I hope this is clear.

Eva


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...>
wrote:

>
> --- fortuna11111 <fortuna11111@...> wrote:
> >
> > .(GK) However, I don't think that
> > > Macedonians and Bulgarians are the same people,
> > > ethnically Bulgarian, and currently organized as
> > > distinct states. I think (and so does Eva
> > actually)
> > > that they are different nationalities, even if
> > closely
> > > related at the level of language.*****
> >
> > George,
> >
> > I am not sure you got me right. I meant, it is not
> > my business to
> > say what ethnicity they are. Up to 1945 they had a
> > predominantly
> > Bulgarian national consciousness.
>
> *****GK: So what happened in 1945? What caused this
> switch? I gather that there is no "Bulgarian
> liberation movement" in Macedonia?****
>
> The Ottoman
> > archives
> > describe the population of Macedonia as ethnically
> > Bulgarian to
> > its larger part. For centuries they had been
> > calling themselves
> > Bulgarian (and everyone else called them so). But
> > if something
> > happens and they decide they are no longer
> > Bulgarians, this is
> > their business.
>
> *****GK: I'm rather curious about this "something"...
> Would you believe that it is possible they called
> themselves "Bulgarians" earlier because they had quite
> different perceptions of what it meant to be
> "Bulgarian" than did your Bulgarians?******
>
> I just don't want them to start
> > rewriting my
> > history, writing Macedonian instead of Bulgarian
> > everywhere (I
> > am sure Vaptsarov turned over in his grave when they
> > called him
> > a Macedonian). I understand the political reasons
> > standing
> > behind this, yet I find it is a lie and a wrong
> > attitude to history.
>
> *****GK: Why would you consider the history of the
> territory of contemporary Macedonia to be Bulgarian
> history just because of an earlier common use of the
> term?*****
> >
> > Btw, nationality and ethnicity are not the same
> > thing to me. They
> > could be ethnically Bulgarian and call themselves
> > Macedonians.
> > Perfectly okay with me.
> >
> > Eva
> >
> >
>
>
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