Hi SoM,
Yes, I wasn’t suggesting that the essential ‘Macedonian’ identity is artificial, rather that human rights norms (as I understand them - happy to be told otherwise) perhaps afford the individual a right to self identify as belonging to that identity. Of course, the (my) assumption is that such a ‘Macedonian’ identity exists regardless of peoples different conceptual understandings of its progenitor features.
Yes, I wasn’t suggesting that the essential ‘Macedonian’ identity is artificial, rather that human rights norms (as I understand them - happy to be told otherwise) perhaps afford the individual a right to self identify as belonging to that identity. Of course, the (my) assumption is that such a ‘Macedonian’ identity exists regardless of peoples different conceptual understandings of its progenitor features.
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