Re: What is Slavic?
Unlike others here, I wouldn't banalize Slavic at a level of just a language group - there are people who speak some Slavic language from the day they were born, like certain Gypsies, Armenians, Uyghurs, Kazakhs etc, but that still does not make them Slavs.
What makes us Slavs is something that is inside of us, something that is much older than nations and nation-states - an ethno-psychic constant, it's something that can't be taught, it can't be explained, it can only be felt.
It materializes itself in numerous ways - it's the tune that shepherds play under the Carpathian, or in the Dinaric mountains, or by the shore of Volga river, it's the dance of the girls on Ohrid lake, Wisla river, streets of Kiev, it's the same pattern that 2 women sew, one in Novgorod and other one in Niš, it's the symbol cut in the tree in Bulgaria, and the stone at the Baltic coast...
We don't have to be of the same anthropological type to be the same. Two members of the same nation don't have to be of the same type to feel the same way, why should then it be any different to meta-ethnicity?
Why should we take that typical shallow materialistic Anglo-Saxon view?
R1a my arse... Pakis have 40% of population with R1a group, more than all of southern Slavs... does that make them Slavs???
Slavic is meta-ethnicity, that's only thing that is important, and no thing can change that, no racial theories or genetic researches, no brachycephaly or dolichocephaly, blond or brown hair, Baltic, Siberia or the Balkans, absolutely nothing can change that.
Because at the end it's only the heart and soul that matters, and it's Slavic!
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