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**sandracuk** · 11-02-2010, 10:43 AM

And I share my faith with them and can bond with them as kindred spirits.

It's a very complicated question, eh?

I truly feel for the Christian Albanians who came to Sicily and to Southern Italy to flee Islam. On the surface one would have surmised that they had chosen their religion, and yet they have managed to kept their ethnicity, whereas they compromised on their Orthodox faith and became Catholics, while they remain Albanians, five hundred years later... and yet, they can't really go back to Albania now. It's not their homeland anymore.

I concur.

there are many many many Christian Albanians in Albania and Kosova and 2ice as more as there are in Italy and they don't have any problems and no one is discriminating them.

So you feel kindred to the people that have your same religion and you would intermix with them ( Marriage, friendship etc.. ) which automatically falls in contradiction what Ethnicity stands for ( preserving your linguistic, cultural, racial, traditional values ).

isn't this somehow messed up???

11-02-2010, 10:43 AM	#21
sandracuk Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 674 Senior Member	And I share my faith with them and can bond with them as kindred spirits. It's a very complicated question, eh? I truly feel for the Christian Albanians who came to Sicily and to Southern Italy to flee Islam. On the surface one would have surmised that they had chosen their religion, and yet they have managed to kept their ethnicity, whereas they compromised on their Orthodox faith and became Catholics, while they remain Albanians, five hundred years later... and yet, they can't really go back to Albania now. It's not their homeland anymore. I concur. there are many many many Christian Albanians in Albania and Kosova and 2ice as more as there are in Italy and they don't have any problems and no one is discriminating them. So you feel kindred to the people that have your same religion and you would intermix with them ( Marriage, friendship etc.. ) which automatically falls in contradiction what Ethnicity stands for ( preserving your linguistic, cultural, racial, traditional values ). isn't this somehow messed up???
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