Silver, I must agree with alot of what you had to say, but not on the criticism of some of the forum members.
We talk about nationalism, we are not nationalistic at all and the worst part is that we only have ourselves to blame and i'll give a few examples to that.
I dont want to turn this into a political debate but lets mention the statues for a moment. When the list came out of all the statues that were to be put in the city square of Skopje, the first thing the people did was say that it was an empty promise based on nationalism and sparking tensions. Once we saw the statues being put up, the first ones where Goce Delcev and Dame Gruev people then started saying how we were poor and that it was a disgrace to spend money on statues because our people were starving. I will give another example, the Visa Liberalization... for years, decades the komunjari were saying how we are a closed country with a Schengen wall we couldnt go anywhere we couldnt travel,we couldnt go on holidays once we got Visa Liberalization then people still said that we were poor and we couldnt travel anywhere because we didnt have money so whatever happens to us even if its good we have cowards who are there waiting to hit us over the head with a sledge hammer even if for one moment something good is happening to us.
Look at Bulgaria and Greece they pride themselves with nationalism, as soon as you cross the border into Egejska Makedonija there is a big blue sign saying Welcome to Macedonia then another that says Macedonia is Greek this is on our land too, the Bulgarians are doing it in Pirinska Makedonija aswell. We are being accused by the west of being nationalists when nearly 20 years ago the Solun Airport was renamed to Macedonia now all of the sudden the Skopje Airport cant be called Aleksander the Great? We have traitors in the media who openly persue other interests just to nail us to the ground, when in reality our neighbors are far more nationalistic then we are and they are occupires of our territory.
We are by far the most tolerant country in the Balkans, we respect our minorities more then we respect ourselves for that matter. Nationalism is a good thing, its good to be proud of who you are,where you come from,our traditions,our food,our cities,our villages,our people,our culture,our music,our history,our national heroes but at the same time we need to respect others and their cultures which we do anyways so i see no reason why we should be bowing our heads down when in reality we have not done any harm to anybody.
Just like Nikola Gruevski said in Meckin Kamen a few days ago:
If our neighbors said the same thing i would be very happy, but as the old saying goes, God gave us a wonderful country but he also gave us terrible neighbors.
We talk about nationalism, we are not nationalistic at all and the worst part is that we only have ourselves to blame and i'll give a few examples to that.
I dont want to turn this into a political debate but lets mention the statues for a moment. When the list came out of all the statues that were to be put in the city square of Skopje, the first thing the people did was say that it was an empty promise based on nationalism and sparking tensions. Once we saw the statues being put up, the first ones where Goce Delcev and Dame Gruev people then started saying how we were poor and that it was a disgrace to spend money on statues because our people were starving. I will give another example, the Visa Liberalization... for years, decades the komunjari were saying how we are a closed country with a Schengen wall we couldnt go anywhere we couldnt travel,we couldnt go on holidays once we got Visa Liberalization then people still said that we were poor and we couldnt travel anywhere because we didnt have money so whatever happens to us even if its good we have cowards who are there waiting to hit us over the head with a sledge hammer even if for one moment something good is happening to us.
Look at Bulgaria and Greece they pride themselves with nationalism, as soon as you cross the border into Egejska Makedonija there is a big blue sign saying Welcome to Macedonia then another that says Macedonia is Greek this is on our land too, the Bulgarians are doing it in Pirinska Makedonija aswell. We are being accused by the west of being nationalists when nearly 20 years ago the Solun Airport was renamed to Macedonia now all of the sudden the Skopje Airport cant be called Aleksander the Great? We have traitors in the media who openly persue other interests just to nail us to the ground, when in reality our neighbors are far more nationalistic then we are and they are occupires of our territory.
We are by far the most tolerant country in the Balkans, we respect our minorities more then we respect ourselves for that matter. Nationalism is a good thing, its good to be proud of who you are,where you come from,our traditions,our food,our cities,our villages,our people,our culture,our music,our history,our national heroes but at the same time we need to respect others and their cultures which we do anyways so i see no reason why we should be bowing our heads down when in reality we have not done any harm to anybody.
Just like Nikola Gruevski said in Meckin Kamen a few days ago:
"We respect all our neighbors and we want to cooperate with all of them, as we are already doing. We do not want to take away anything from anyone, be it territory, culture, history etc. However, we do not want anything taken away from us too. We are a tolerant and peaceful nation"
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