The battle over the Macedonian identity is being fought all over the world - in Macedonia they don't have to deal with the humiliating and derogatory language being used against Macedonians in the West.
It did not occur to me quite so vividly but he is very right about the fact that Macedonians from the Republic do not have to listen to this trash talk in their everyday lives. These abuses of rights are usually the concerns of older people and those who bother reading the small print in their newspapers.
If the Macedonians of the Republic had to endure on a daily basis what drivel we have to put up with in Australia (for example) ... I suspect they would be suicide bombing in Greece by now.
Do any Macedonians from the Republic have any comments in relation to this. I have always admired their deep sense of self-identification and wondered how they do not even question anything about their identities ... it is so "matter of fact" .... then it occurred to me much later in life that they never had been denied the right to their identity like we in the West have.
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