Slav Macedonians

[ZAS]

The only thing we can do in this case is send in massive emails and letters to big time newspapers, magazines, and news stations that continue this nonsense. Shall we post contact info for the major media sources and begin to protest this use of "slav" being in front of the word Macedonian?

No,
the only thing that we can do is stop people like STEFOV and his hard line SLAVISTS from trying to brainwash the proper Macedonian folk as well as OUTSIDERS and WESTERNERS, into maintaining that we are slavs and nothing else.

[Risto the Great]

I think we need to ask them which "slav Macedonian" are they referring to and whether they realise how much confusion they are causing by not referring to ethnic Macedonians.

[TrueMacedonian]

The only thing we can do in this case is send in massive emails and letters to big time newspapers, magazines, and news stations that continue this nonsense. Shall we post contact info for the major media sources and begin to protest this use of "slav" being in front of the word Macedonian?

[Soldier of Macedon]

Agreed, it is like saying a Slavic Albanian, who could be either an ethnic Macedonian, ethnic Montenegrin or ethnic Serb from Albania.

There is only one reason they do this, and that is Greece. I would never accept such a term, where in this day and age it only serves to reduce the unique significance of the ethnic Macedonian, no Macedonian would.

[Risto the Great]

I keep reading this term used by Western media for ethnic Macedonians. As much as it angers me, it also confuses me. Especially when it attempts to describe ethnic Macedonians in the Republic of Macedonia.

What purpose does it serve? There is only one ethnic Macedonian group and yet there are quite a few Slavic Macedonians. If we are to subscribe to this moniker, then the confusion would rest quite heavily on the many slavic speaking ethnicities in Macedonia. We could be describing citizens of Macedonia who are ethnically Macedonians, Serbs, Bulgars, Croatians, Torbeshi etc. when we say "Slav Macedonians".

Yet Albanians are afforded simple descriptors like Albanians (shock, horror). Does it really have to be this hard for ethnic Macedonians?

A slavic Macedonian can be one of a number of ethnicities and many journalists are either too ignorant to understand this or have a systematic policy of undermining the Macedonian ethnicity and identity. Either way, they are not helping their reader in any way whatsoever. Enough is enough.