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Ivynn posted...

The original Macedonians weren't a Slavic people. North Macedonia today has nothing in common with historical Macedonia.

Not much is know about the Macedonian people since no works from them survive. Instead what remains is what other people wrote about them like the Greeks and Romans. Nevertheless the modern Greek and Macedonian states are in a battle over appropriating the past for the sake of nation building. But as I wanted to highlight in my last post there is no long, unbroken line connecting modern people to ancient people and what it means to be a Hellene in the 3rd century BC is totally different than what it means to be one in the 21st century AD.

KINDERFELD posted...

None of us created the 1 drop rule and you can't have it both ways. There are many non-white ethnicities that look and have white features.
However, not white = black or a person of color.

With that understanding, Cleopatra was black.

The issue is transplanting modern ideas of race that arose from a post-slavery and post-colonial world unto the past and that doesn't really work. Ancient people didn't have a concept of race like modern people do.