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So all this brings us to the conclusion that Macedonians can't be Bulgarian tribe....especially since they don't see themselves as Bulgarians and that is what is important.
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I personally determine such thinks by looking at both entities and looking at the differences inside and between them.
If doing so its clear that in Bulgaria itself groups exist which are further away than Macedonians and the same is true for the Macedonian population.
Furthermore such identities can change and changed quite often, especially such people form a rather traditional society know the small group organisation (i.e. clan etc.) first and being dominated by them, so its rather a political question to form artificial identities.
If you look at the ethnic-linguistic background, you can just consider the Slavic Macedonians being nearest to Bulgarians, no matter how they define themselves at the moment.
There are stupid identities around born out of various political structures around the globe, as one correctly stated.
In Moldova they try to change the vocabulary and to invent new words either...dialect if just small differences are there, doesnt mean that the ethnic great group or folk isnt still there.
As I said, it wouldnt change to much if Macedonia would come to Bulgaria now. Similar with Austria, at the moment I wouldnt really care about the German-Austrian issue since there are political problems bigger than that and the BRD is so degenerated that it wouldnt be a pleasure anyway.
So there are two things: The nationalistic ideal of an ethnic state and the political and social reality.
Usually I can just agree that it makes more often sense to look at things from the second perspective first...with the exception of extreme cultural-racial differences, but I wouldnt see that on the Balkans with some exceptions...