Romans —“Romaioi” or “Romioi” — was our most common term of self-designation and endonym from the 3rd century A.D., more or less, until my grandparents’ generation in the early 20th century. The exonym “Greeks” is what the West has called us since the Romans and still calls us and is fine with me. The new “Hellenes” is another sad pandering, an embarrassing, nationalist, neologism. And a lie.
Confusing. More soon…
Some tweets:
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comment: nikobakos@gmail.com
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Me, I'm Nicholas Bakos, a.k.a. "NikoBako." I'm Greek (Roman really, but when I say that in English some five people in the world today understand what I'm talking about, so I use "Greek" for shorthand). I'm from New York. I live all over the place these days. The rest should become obvious from the blog.
See "JADDE: THE MISSION AND STARTING OFF, the blog's first entry below, and JADDE: THE NAME OF THIS BLOG for my general agenda:
Please contact me with comments, questions, complaints or -- please -- corrections at: nikobakos@gmail.com and on Twitter: @jaddeyekabir
Jadde: from Bosnia to Bengal
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