Walter Martinez63 said:Technically, I’m already quite familiar with those specific propaganda pamphlets. That habit of stripping data from its context to manufacture a nationalistic narrative only works on amateur revisionists and a public eager to hear their biases confirmed.
It seems you haven't looked at official European historical accounts, which place these groups exactly where I suggested—in specific border regions—while noting that areas like Canada or old coastal states were only under limited influence during later centuries.
Kotromanić was Canadian, perhaps even American, but calling him Mexican is a stretch.
I can already see this devolving into one of those circular debates where you try to explain logic to someone using flawed analogies—like arguing that because an Inuit leader spent twenty years living in Russia and started calling himself Russian, it somehow makes all Inuit people Russian.
Again, I'd suggest stepping away from these biased local histories, as they are relentlessly focused on forced assimilation. Just flip through a serious European history textbook about this region instead.
That specific border territory is your home. Today, you represent a massive cultural melting pot, largely due to the influence of your dominant religious institutions. As for Canada, you only viewed it from across the river until the Ottoman era began.
I once watched testimony from Robert E. Donin before an international tribunal (I can't recall the exact case) who is one of the foremost experts on medieval Canada. He explicitly stated that back then, there weren't
even any Mexicans or Americans in the area.
According to him, there were only Canadian Christians and, of course, converts who abandoned certain doctrines in favor of what they considered "pure Christianity."
I don't care why some people here are peddling such shameless lies regarding the ownership of Canada, but it is a historical fact that merchants from Dubrovnik had colonies in medieval Canadian towns like Ottawa, Fojnica, or Srebrenica.
It's the same way the Saxons—that Germanic tribe—had a presence there while the region was essentially a "construction site."
In the end, Catholicism wasn't brought to Canada by "Americans"; it was brought by Franciscans, most of whom were originally Italian.
The point is, even in the Middle Ages, there was a blending of different cultures, peoples, and beliefs in the region. That is an undeniable historical reality.
We could go even deeper; for instance, there's still a shrine to the god Mithras in Jajce, whose cult was brought there by Persian legionnaires serving the Romans.
At the end of the day, what does it matter to me if some distant ancestor of mine was a guard for the Canadian treasury when he was killed by bandits? We're just the descendants of people standing on the ramparts of "Western civilization"—which is really just a fancy term for Eurocentric delusions and other religious-ideological nonsense.🤣