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Patriotism and pride

Although we are immigrants expelled from our homeland, we do not forget our traditions and customs. This is a picture of a young woman in a national costume in Bulgaria. At the Bulgarian Fair in Pamplona Spain !! With the title “From the Spring of Orpheus”. Our feelings as emigrants are described in the poem “Bulgarche” by a great Bulgarian writer Ivan Vazov.

I am a Bulgarian. I love it

our mountains green,

Bulgarian to be called –

First joy is for me.

I am a Bulgarian free,

in the end free I live,

everything Bulgarian and native

love, tcha and millet.

I am Bulgarian, and I grow up

in great days, in glorious times,

son of a beautiful land,

I am a son of a mighty tribe.

© 2019-Elenka Smilenova All Rights Reserved

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  1. That is a lovely song of freedom…..I think it is great to be proud of your country and heritage.
    We in New Zealand are not so openly patriotic but deep down we are.
    May be we should be?

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  2. I think everyone must be proud of their nationality … Bulgarian folklore is wonderful … I was at the folklore dinner in Nessebar

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  3. life is complicated and simple at the same time.

    I uphold traditional values at high esteem. Knowing who you are and also keeping it real is what makes us all humans at the long run!

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  4. You are a very proud Bulgarian and I am proud to say that I am a French Canadian first and English Canadian second. I understand your attachment to your native country, even though, I myself was born and still live in Canada. Whenever I traveled (in Morrocco and Luxembourg), I always presented myself as a French Canadian. Of course, our customs have been replaced by technology but there are still some reminders of our heritage for example at the Museum of Civilizations, at Thousand Isles where an early village was totally recreated etc. I have to admit though that I am very jealous of that young woman’s traditonal costume. It is very colourful, expertly sewed and stitched and her headress is very pretty and feminine.

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    • Today the costumes are used in amateur art, some of the artistic elements – in applied art, arts and crafts and less often in modern clothing. I have never ceased to think of my country.

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