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> Italians are not any more entitled to Caesar's Legacy than the Japanese If the Japanese settled in Italy in the 500s AD and lived there for 1500 years tellin

> Italians are not any more entitled to Caesar's Legacy than the Japanese If the Japanese settled in Italy in the 500s AD and lived there for 1500 years telling stories about Caesar and spent centuries adopting him as an honorary forefather, yeah, I'd say they were entitled to his legacy. It's not like he's around to mind. The modern French identify strongly with the Gauls (to the point where most Gallic scholarship is in French) even though their language is of Latin descent and they're mostly descended from the Germanic tribes that came later. The modern English identify strongly with the early Britons (to the point where their largest folk hero is the King of the Britons) even though they're mostly descended from the very people who displaced them. This is just a pattern applied across the world every time nations migrate. I'm going to need a better explanation than a Japanese straw man for why the North Macedonians shouldn't be entitled to the same kind of folk-hero appropriation that the English are.

drexlspivey 2y ago
Slav's didn't spend 1500 years telling stories about Alexander the Great, they have their own heritage. The first claim to the heritage of Alexander came from Northern Macedonia (formerly a province of Yugoslavia) in the 1990s for the reasons the article states. > This is just a pattern applied across the world every time nations migrate. So then I guess if you were a Native American and modern Americans claimed to be descendents of Geronimo you wouldn't find it ridiculous? It's factually wrong.
- zozbot234 2y ago
  > Slav's didn't spend 1500 years telling stories about Alexander the Great It seems that they did, as much as anyone else in Europe at that time. Slavic versions of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Romance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Romance (which was the main way the story of Alexander the Great was known in folklore) appear quite early.

drexlspivey 2y ago

Slav's didn't spend 1500 years telling stories about Alexander the Great, they have their own heritage. The first claim to the heritage of Alexander came from Northern Macedonia (formerly a province of Yugoslavia) in the 1990s for the reasons the article states. > This is just a pattern applied across the world every time nations migrate. So then I guess if you were a Native American and modern Americans claimed to be descendents of Geronimo you wouldn't find it ridiculous? It's factually wrong.

zozbot234 2y ago
> Slav's didn't spend 1500 years telling stories about Alexander the Great It seems that they did, as much as anyone else in Europe at that time. Slavic versions of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Romance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Romance (which was the main way the story of Alexander the Great was known in folklore) appear quite early.