Impact of Surviving ERE on Greek Identity?

Simple question: how will Greeks view themselves if the Eastern Roman Empire survives, especially if/when nationalism comes up?
 

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Romans, plain and simple. The ERE would probably wouldn't care much, if at all about ethnicity and would try to promote a cultural identity first and foremost. In the words of someone here (who said it I apologize for forgetting) "You could be half Ethiopian-Half Mongolian, but if you're Orthodox, speak Greek and act Roman, you're Roman."
 
Romans, plain and simple. The ERE would probably wouldn't care much, if at all about ethnicity and would try to promote a cultural identity first and foremost. In the words of someone here (who said it I apologize for forgetting) "You could be half Ethiopian-Half Mongolian, but if you're Orthodox, speak Greek and act Roman, you're Roman."
How would this mesh with actual Romans, though? Would Italians claim to be the "true Rome"? What if the rise of nationalism fractures the empire along ethnic lines? What happens once the empire is mainly isolated to Greece?
 

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How would this mesh with actual Romans, though? Would Italians claim to be the "true Rome"? What if the rise of nationalism fractures the empire along ethnic lines? What happens once the empire is mainly isolated to Greece?
That depends on what the state of Italy at the time. Is it a mess of balkanized states or a unified state?

Why would the Empire be isolated to only Greece? Its far more likely for them to permanently lose Greece instead of Anatolia.
 
That depends on what the state of Italy at the time. Is it a mess of balkanized states or a unified state?

Why would the Empire be isolated to only Greece? Its far more likely for them to permanently lose Greece instead of Anatolia.
So then what would happen to non-Roman Greeks, if Greece itself were lost? Would they develop a separate ethnic identity to Roman Greeks, or would that only happen in the case that somehow Greece was converted to another religion?
 

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So then what would happen to non-Roman Greeks, if Greece itself were lost? Would they develop a separate ethnic identity to Roman Greeks, or would that only happen in the case that somehow Greece was converted to another religion?
Possibly; more likely if they were converted. They could just see themselves as subjected Romans. More likely the latter if there is no religious conversion as there would still be a vibrant Greek community across the Marmara in Anatolia, primarily concentrated in the West and in the Pontic coast.
 
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