User talk:Amikrop

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As for the FYROM naming issue, though, please don't insist on changing things to FYROM. We have a very very hard-earned consensus here, after long debates by many people, that we follow the common English practice and the country's own choices in calling it Republic of Macedonia, and its language Macedonian. Everybody here is very well aware that Greek readers don't like it that way, so there's no need to re-state all the arguments you guys have for the Greek position (we've heard them a million times); this is just the community consensus that has emerged. Hope you'll understand. Fut.Perf. ☼ 19:06, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

The problem is that "the country's own choices" are historically incorrect. Such actions contribute to the abuse and stealing of another country's history and culture. Just because Skopjans don't have their own history and feel threatened by the Albanian minority, that doesn't mean they should proceed to such historical harassments. Slavic people made their appearance during the Byzantine period, a lot after Alexander the Great, so all their arguments are false. Pella, the town Alexander the Great was born in, always was and still is, in Greece. So, I really wonder what the Skopjans are even talking about...