Like good god so many Arvanites HATE Albanians even more than normie-Greeks. It’s bizarre. While there is certainly a disconnect between Arbërs and Shqiptars, at least we acknowledge that we are Albanians.
They also really love claiming us as Greeks as well. It’s weird, sure we’re related but please stop saying every Albanian poet was Arbër, therefore Greek.
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Because they assimilated. Arvanites were orthodox, greeks were orthodox as well so the bareer to assimilation was lower. The arbereshe of Italy were orthodox as well (for the most part) but they were surrounded by catholic italians which helped them to distinguish themselves as arbereshe. The arbereshe in Italy also lived in relatively isolated places.
The Arvanites played a huge role in the Greek revolution, and them being Orthodox made them susceptible to assimilation by the Greeks, whose core identity especially at that time was Eastern Orthodoxy. They were basically told they were “spicy Greeks” with a unique language descended from “Homeric Greek”. Any similarity with Albanian is just disregarded as “they stole the words”. Some still believe that shit to this day, while others simply have an identity complex and go, as you said, more ultranationalist than Greeks. Thracian Arvanites do not have this as they emigrated much much later to the region.
Arvanites anti-Albanian? To be honest this is the first time a hear this.
How did you got in this conclusion? Can you provide any evidence? TIA.