Original sentence: The decisive factor in Gorals' auto-identification is not ethnic but territorial: Gorals living in areas with a long tradition of belonging to the Polish state identify themselves as Polish, while those living in the former area of Upper Hungary identify themselves as Slovak.This controversy surfaces from time time when the Polish government in 1918 said:,,They are Polish", while the Gorals in Slovakia have considered themselves Slovak since the 18th century
Edited sentence: Hopefully in the future people will realize that the terms 'Polish' and 'Slovak' are not mututally exclusive and the the Gorals are both Polish and Slovak.Poles and Slovaks use different rationales to support their claim that the Gorals are exclusively Polish or Slovak.Slovaks will point out that both Polish and Slovak are mutually intelligible and will highlight the extensive links and parallels with Slovak folk culture as well as the long tradition of the area as part of Upper Hungary the former name of Slovakia.The Poles highlight that the language of Gorals is a dialect of Polish, something that has been accepted by the academic world outside of Slovakia and the extensive colonization of the area by colonists from Poland.The decisive factor in Goral's auto identification is not ethnic but territorial: Gorals living in areas with a long tradition of belonging to the Polish state identify themselves as Polish, while those living in the former area of Upper Hungary will usually identify themselves as Slovak.This controversy surfaces from time time when the Polish government in 1918 said:,,They are Polish", while Slovaks have considered Gorals Slovak since the 18th century