Was Alexander an ethnic greek?

ok, here you go ...

In tracing the emergence of the Macedonian kingdom from its origins as a Balkan backwater to a major European and Asian power, Eugene Borza offers to specialists and lay readers alike a revealing account of a relatively unexplored segment of ancient history. He draws from recent archaeological discoveries and an enhanced understanding of historical geography to form a narrative that provides a material-culture setting for political events. Examining the dynamics of Macedonian relations with the Greek city-states, he suggests that the Macedonians, although they gradually incorporated aspects of Greek culture into their own society, maintained a distinct ethnicity as a Balkan people.

Source:

Princeton University:
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/4547.html

More on the ethnicity of Macedonians:

Harvard University:
E. Badian, Department of History, Harvard University


The University of California:
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/sale/pages/5597.html

Some books:

Ancient Macedonians: Differences Between the Ancient Macedonians and the Ancient Greeks
by J S Gandeto


Macedonia and Greece: The Struggle to Define a New Balkan Nation
by John Shea

This is untrue.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4687276.stm

What happened when Alexander of Macedon applied to race in the Olympics?

B. Greek athletes protested, saying they would not run with a barbarian

Please, note the difference between greek/hellenic and hellenisitic. There is no doubt that the Ancient Greeks had one of the most advanced cultures and civilizations in the middle east. Many people of different ethnicies such as the Romans, Thracians, etc. tried to immitate this culture, and they were all part of the hellenistic world. Alexander, and the Macedonians in general were also part of the Hellenistic world, but ethnically they were a distinct people. 

Oh please! What did Alexander have to do with the Byzantine world? This is such a contradiction. Byzantium was the complete opposite of Ancient Greece in almost every aspect - christianity versus having many gods, progress in science and knowledge versus a christian dogma, etc ...

In any case if you want to adore a person who enslaved and invaded your ancestors, a person whom your ancestors hated and despised, and jealously guarded their hellenic heritage from, this is entirely your own choice. Only postmortum, when his achievment became clear, did the greeks accept him as their own.

yes, ancien macedonians were not ethnically greek.Bu they adopted some greek customs, and they viewed greek culture as a superior one.

As the macedonians themselves were not greek, naturally their kings werent either.

The decendants of the Macedonians are both the people of the Macedonian province in greece and the Republic of Macedonia.

It is well known that slavs arrived in the region much later, and linguistically or culturally they have hardly any association with the ancient macedonians, as do many of the greeks in the rest of Macedonia, many of whom are not indgenous to macedonia but anatolian settlers from the greco-turkish war. They have no macedonian roots.

There is no evidence they spoke an ancient greek dialect. This is still very much under dispute. What is undisputable is that they used the greek script, as did the Thracians, because that was the only script of the time.

They may have worshipped greek gods, Thracians too worshipped some greek gods like for instance Ares/Mars, the god of war.

They did not participate in the Olympic games. Greek participants refused to compete with barbarians.

Yes, you are right these were the views of Borza before 1990, but now he has changed them, and according to the material I have posted above his views are that while Macedonians were influenced by hellenic culture, they were an ethnically distinct group from the Greeks.

Fact is that Alexander was half Macedonian half Molossian.

His mother Olympias, was daughter of Neoptolemus, king of Epirus. The members of the Molossian royal house were called Aeacidae and claimed descent from Achilles. They considered themselves Greeks and were seen as Greeks by others. Due to this mother's ancestry, Alexander faced accusations of non-macedonian purity from his enemies as the biggest deterring for not getting Macedonian Throne.

His father's Philip lineage was called Argeadae or Temenidae and claimed descent from Hercules. On the pretty convincing weight of evidence both Molossian and Macedonian royal houses were viewed as Greeks and claimed themselves to be so.

There you go! Now you have the answer to your question.