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Grecomans (Bulgarian: Гъркомани, Garkomani, Macedonian: Гркомани, Grkomani, Romanian: Grecomani, Albanian: Grekomanë) is a pejorative term used in Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Romania and Albania for Greeks of perceived Albanian, Aromanian or Slavic origin, according to non-Greeks. The term generally means "pretending to be a Greek" and implies a non-Greek origin. Another meaning of the term is fanatic Greek.
It should be noted that the term is considered highly offensive, particularly by bilingual Slavophone Greeks (because it implies controversy of their Greek origin), when used by Macedonian Slavs both in the Republic of Macedonia as well as in transnational communities (e.g. in Australia and Canada) to refer to the indigenous people from the wider geographical Macedonia region as well as Macedonia in Greece with a Greek national and ethnic identity "in a variety of uncomplementary names".
See also
- Bulgarophiles
- Serbomans
- Minorities in Greece
- Hellenisation
- Cultural assimilation
- Daniel Mоscopolites
References
- Trudgill (2000: 255)
- Curta, Florin and Stephenson, Paul. Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250. Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 0521815398
- Fields of wheat, hills of blood: passages to nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990, Anastasia N. Karakasidou, University of Chicago Press, 1997, ISBN 0226424944.
- Macedonia: the politics of identity and difference, Jane K. Cowan, Pluto Press, 2000 ISBN 0745315895, p. 40.
- Van Boeschoten, Riki. 2006. "Code-switching, linguistic jokes and ethnic identity: Reading hidden transcripts in a cross-cultural context." Journal of Greek Studies 24:347-377.
- THE MACEDONIAN AFFAIR - A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE ATTEMPTS TO CREATE A COUNTERFEIT NATION - Institute of International and Strategic Studies. Athens, Greece.
- Danforth, L. M. (1995) The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational World, Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-04356-6, p. 221.