[ALBSA-Info] Fwd: [balkans] ALBANOHELLENICA

[Albi Qeli]

the way I see it, an arvanite who is a damn good hellene is a person who is
albanian by blood and greek by belief, (in other words a hybrid, a kind of
sea-diving eagle or a kind of flying fish);

>>This Kostas Giakoumis is an Arvanite and a damn good Helene! I've had a
>>long
>>conversation with him regarding the issue of what is it that makes one
>>Albanian. My view was that it is only the Albanian language and obviously
>>Arvanites would be defined as proper Albanians under this premise. Of
>>course
>>our albanophone friend opposed saying that one is whatever one feels to
be.
>>So if an Albanian all of a sudden starts feeling Greek that that's
>>precisely
>>what he is ...a Greek. I don't know whether
>>this view stems from their X chromosome or whether
>>these Helenes are "touchy/feely" people for whom feelings come first
>>...reason second.