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To: GeraldP; Lion in Winter; jb6
Imagine a person being born of Irish father and English mother in Great Britain in 1774 and never living in the U.S.A. being heralded as "the honor of our American nation"

It would be sheer nonsense.

Yet, when Albanians appropriate Mother Theresa or Skenderbey it is called history.

Mother Theresa was born in Skopje, Macedonia in 1910. Albania was created in 1912 and Macedonia was not part of it.

Her father was a Tzintzar, not an Albanian. Mother Theresa made her career in India. Albanians may be proud of her because of her maternal lineage, but she can not be a distinguished figure of Albanian nation . She can be only distinguished figure of Shqip people. And this is not the same. German J.S. Bach can not be Austrian national figure, although Austrians can be proud of him as an example of German genius.

Appropriation of Mother Theresa as an "Albanian national figure" is an example of brazen theft of history.

33 posted on 03/30/2006 12:59:18 PM PST by DTA
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To: DTA
Appropriation of Mother Theresa as an "Albanian national figure" is an example of brazen theft of history.

Uh-oh. Don't be calling Mother Theresa a liar:

“By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.”

36 posted on 03/30/2006 2:57:29 PM PST by mark502inf
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