Who are these "easterners" that think we are not European? Bulgaria is the founder of the Orthodox-Slavic Civilization. We are the fountain from which most of Eastern Europe (which is Slavic) can be thankful for.
Bulgarians came to the Balkans and settled inside the then greatest power in the world, the Roman Empire. Defeated them in war and in the centuries to come won the majority of the Bulgarian-Roman Empire wars. Each contribution that Eastern Europeans take for granted are the result of annihilated Roman armies that opposed what we wanted to bring to the world. In contrast US is the result of western Europe as a whole, not one single nation. Instead of a vast powerful empire like the Romans, they fought natives stone age people with bows and arrows... while the US is protected by two oceans, they still couldn't break free from Britain if it weren't for the help of France, even though your circumstances were much more favorable due to all European immigration n industrialism that followed, that is just, pathetic. Without France you would have the queen on your dollar :)
US is an idiocracy country of trash culture! Created by opportunists, selfish individuals that couldn't see a greater whole and that very "foundation" is the worst if one wants a lasting country. I asked you, have you learned to speak Spanish, you didn't answer my question. Opportunism doesn't favor country but looks where the wind blows. During the Ottoman empire most Bulgarians held true to their identity, culture, language, refused to give in during the centuries. The muslims offered incentives for conversion, economics, by the very nature of opportunity I think we know you Americans would never pass the test that we Bulgarians did if you would have been faced with similar situation. The question whether we are Europeans, we have answered loud and clear.
By your name, Russophobe, I guess you have at least a hate for orthodox christians and I wonder if you consider them all non-Europeans? The Orthodox church is the same church that ALL of Europe had before the great rift. Does that mean western Europe wasn't European during that time?
Don't complain about Chalga, as bad as that music is, well in comparison to your Justin Bieber? Ha ha ha, it's the height of culture. Bulgarian music is much more than just Chalga.
Speaking of US corruption,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/12/hsbc-prosecution-fine-money-laundering
Too bad most Americans are too stupid to understand,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1E9MiUECXU
xD,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovb7Q8apJ3k
The end of US,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/us/whites-account-for-under-half-of-births-in-us.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
With the foundation of pure greed and disregard for your fellow American, you won't last as the country you were. Please, don't ask what Bulgaria has done for the world, in a hundred years you won't even be around to compare yourself to anyone.