Thanks for participating in this discussion everyone, I do appreciate it and I'll tell you of my reasons behind the topic of this thread.
At this point I would like to use the term "People" interchangeably with "Macedonians". When I say "People" I will always mean "Macedonians". Not Greeks, nor Bulgarians, nor Albanians, Roma, Turks, Vlah or any other ethnicity. This thread is strictly about the Macedonian Ethnicity.
So this is where my ignorance comes in. To simply call everyone "Macedonians", yes tells me that you are Macedonians, but it fails to tell me anything about, for an example the people of Strumica and how they see the People from Florina, How the people of Florina see those is Strumica and those in Skopje? You are all Macedonians, but amongst yourselves how do you see the others?
My inquiry is legitimate and I'm not trying to screw with you guys, so I'll get to the reason I started this thread.
I'm one of those Grutsi, Yunanlilars, "Albanians converts", "Turkish Christians", who thought I new who you were as a people. In my minds eye there was not much more to understand until my wife and I visited my friend and his wife.
His wife told us about a Macedonian young girl at her workplace. The young girl's family originates from Florina and they are Macedonians. The young girl calls herself Macedonian, not Greek, speaks Macedonian, does not understand a word of Greek. Now here is what she apparently said that floored all of us. In explaining here weekend, my friend's wife, told us that the young girl described one of her Macedonian girlfriends as a "SKI".
My friends wife had to ask the girl, what is a "SKI", which she explained are the people from the Republic of Macedonia.
As I typed that last sentence, I'm thinking that you may remove me from this forum, which is obviously up to you, I don't know how you will receive it, but it is honestly what I'm told the young girl said. She in now way said that those identified as "SKI"s are not Macedonian.
We talked about the term "SKI" and my friend, his wife, my wife and I were completely ignorant to it and that it is how the Macedonians of Florina see the Macedonians from the republic.
I'm not trying to sow divisions between you, I'm only trying to better understand you. I think you can understand how I would not know of anything like this.
At this point I would like to use the term "People" interchangeably with "Macedonians". When I say "People" I will always mean "Macedonians". Not Greeks, nor Bulgarians, nor Albanians, Roma, Turks, Vlah or any other ethnicity. This thread is strictly about the Macedonian Ethnicity.
So this is where my ignorance comes in. To simply call everyone "Macedonians", yes tells me that you are Macedonians, but it fails to tell me anything about, for an example the people of Strumica and how they see the People from Florina, How the people of Florina see those is Strumica and those in Skopje? You are all Macedonians, but amongst yourselves how do you see the others?
My inquiry is legitimate and I'm not trying to screw with you guys, so I'll get to the reason I started this thread.
I'm one of those Grutsi, Yunanlilars, "Albanians converts", "Turkish Christians", who thought I new who you were as a people. In my minds eye there was not much more to understand until my wife and I visited my friend and his wife.
His wife told us about a Macedonian young girl at her workplace. The young girl's family originates from Florina and they are Macedonians. The young girl calls herself Macedonian, not Greek, speaks Macedonian, does not understand a word of Greek. Now here is what she apparently said that floored all of us. In explaining here weekend, my friend's wife, told us that the young girl described one of her Macedonian girlfriends as a "SKI".
My friends wife had to ask the girl, what is a "SKI", which she explained are the people from the Republic of Macedonia.
As I typed that last sentence, I'm thinking that you may remove me from this forum, which is obviously up to you, I don't know how you will receive it, but it is honestly what I'm told the young girl said. She in now way said that those identified as "SKI"s are not Macedonian.
We talked about the term "SKI" and my friend, his wife, my wife and I were completely ignorant to it and that it is how the Macedonians of Florina see the Macedonians from the republic.
I'm not trying to sow divisions between you, I'm only trying to better understand you. I think you can understand how I would not know of anything like this.
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