Which country are you from?

aapatsos wrote: felixxx wrote: aapatsos wrote: Bulgaria/Romania/Macedonia/Moldova Although I am against this naming of the country (for people who are familiar with history, Macedonia was the state ruled by Alexander the Great), it seems that we must accept it in Greece as part of the 'international conventions' , nothing wrong with the citizens there   NO WAY MAN! It has a name for the international convention, it's F.Y.R.O.M! Just because the bush recognised this country as Macedonia it doesn't mean that we will accept it I have the same opinion with you but all new maps refer to them as Macedonia

Oh, crap. Former Ottoman district of Greece? Former British colony of Ireland? Former Soviet republic of Estonia?

C'mon people, get a picture! They are MACEDONIANS, they speak Macedonian, they live in Macedonia!

How should they call themeselves? Martians? Jupiterians? BetweenAlbaniansAndBulgarians?

We all know that they got nothing to do with old famous Greek Macedonia and Alexander the Great! That is sheer GREEK heritage, and Im sure Greeks are proud of it. I know I would be.

It's not the Macedonians fault that they got the name hundreds of years ago, most probably by some Byzanthian historian. They are Slavic nation with Slavic roots and language, along with Serbs, Russians etc...they are writing Cyrilic letters, not Greek, etc etc.

What, citizens of Rome shouldn't be called "Roman" bc of some ancient empire? What about Egyptians??? Hello, Egyptians!!?? Should they be Present Arabic State on a Space of Former Ancient Egyptian Empire, PASSFAEE....

I can understand that Greeks are annoyed by the name, but that is not Macedonians fault. We can't really expect that some country will be named with stupid acronyms untill the end of the word.


Peace and respect to everyone,

Moris
Croatia

Hacketeer wrote: fandango wrote: I have to be honest, I'm also rather uneasy about the first grouping, where you include us in with the Welsh...     It's being in the same grouping as the Irish that bothers me!

Nope – it's the Welsh that turn my stomach.

I was born in England but grew up in Southern Africa – the country that is now that great, glowing beacon of human rights, freedom and democracy: Zimbabwe. It was called Rhodesia most of the time I lived there. I still consider myself a stateless Rhodesian.

I have also lived in Saudi Arabia, Zambia, Spain and Sweden.

So where was the poll button for "Stateless International"?

worst-conceived poll ever?

Let's put it out of its misery.