Do you think Greeks are the lest disliked Balkaners in the West?

>Your language is radically different from ancient Greek that there’s little to none mutual intelligibility. You're better off talking about the language to a linguistic scholar but what they will tell you is that it's under the same family of languages. Nobody said it's the exact same language, but it's much closer than Italian is to Roman. You can probably relate it more like 16th century Italian to Roman. Or middle English to modern English. The fact that the word for iron is exactly the same in Homer's Collins and at the back of my cereal box is good enough for me to believe that I speak a very close language to ancient Greeks. >You don’t produce philosophy or democracy. Or you don’t have slavery Ancient Greeks had a golden century where they produced. Great works of philosophy and came up with the idea of democracy. It doesn't mean that the only people identifying as ancient Greeks had democracy. Or produced philosophy. There were ancient Greeks that were tyrants and had no interest in the Arts or mathematics. If your argument is that modern Greeks don't produce philosophy (which they do but anyways) and that means they are not related to ancient Greeks.... I think you understand how silly that sounds. And seen Greece covered a period of 18 centuries. Philosophy, theater democracy was 1 of those centuries. >Modern Greeks and ancient Greeks are ethnically, culturally, linguistically completely different people. You can’t just pretend to represent them. I'm not sure if I claimed anywhere that I represent the ancient Greeks. Sure, there are differences but I think we can all safely say modern Greeks are the closest thing to ancient Greeks. How you determine if we are the same people and how I determine if I identify as a Greek and view them as my ancestors that's completely subjective. Ethnically genetically there is no possibility that someone can claim to be the exact same person as someone from 2,000 years ago. Unless they lived in an isolated island and never came into contact with the outside world. Linguistically we have a language that has evolved. From Anson Greek. The ancient macedonians were speaking a different language that the answer Greeks, but it was definitely based on the Greek language. Some linguists classify it. Ask the same language and some classified as a dialect. Regardless, it is just a sign of how languages evolve even within that same time period. The fact that the people of North Macedonia that speak a Slavic language called their language Macedonian is infuriating. I don't mind if they identify as macedonians. So do some Greeks and so do other people of other countries. But we know for a fact that the ants in Macedonian language was under the Greek family of languages. Why is the current Slavic language having the name Macedonian in it? Anyways, I'm digressing.