Why We're proud to be Greek
1) Because we buy whole watermelons and not in slices
2) Because we buy whole lambs and not in pieces
3) Because nights in Greece and Cyprus finish in the morning
4) Because we take our coffee slowly, while smoking and not in "shots"
5) Because flirting is our national hobby
6) Because sex is our national sport
7) Because we always moan about the public sector and everyone seeks to
get a job in it
Because we are not puritans
9) Because we are not racists
10) Because we cheat openly, without trying to hide it
11) Because we go out almost every night even if we are penniless
12) Because we know how to spend better than we know how to save
13) Because we never visit others empty handed
14) Because there is no way to explain to foreigners what "kapsoura" is
(burning desire for someones love)
15) Because in Greece and Cyprus family is still something valuable
16) Because we do not share the petrol with those we take in our cars
17) Because we always make it, albeit in the last moment
18) Because we were slaves of the Muslim Turks for 400 years yet never
bring that up as an excuse for our current state
19) Because for the sake of a woman we made war for 10 years (Trojan
war)
20) Because we are everywhere around the planet
21) Because we love and hate with passion
22) Because the word/concept "filotimo" ( "friend of honour" ie. helping
someone because it is a shame not to help out ) does not exist in any
other language
23) Because whenever foreigners cannot find a word, they use one of ours
24) Because we spend our bad and low times with our friends and family,
not with shrinks
25) Because Socrates, Pluto and Aristotle were Greek
26) Because we invented theatre and chemistry
27) Because we gave birth to Democracy and Philosophy
28) Because we discovered logic and mathematics
29) Because we jumpstarted science and physics
30) Because we are proud of our culture, not of our wars
31) Because when others were discovering meat, we already had
cholesterol
32) Because when we were building the Parthenon, the others were still
sleeping on trees
3) Because we gave the academic light to all these leaders who are
"striving" for peace by making wars
34) Because we can give anything up just to make love
35) Because hundreds of women travel to Greece and Cyprus every summer just to get
laid
36) Because we have a distinction between Eros (falling in love) and
Agapi (innocent love), while we feel both of them passionately
37) Because Eros was a Greek God
38) Because we change our cars every three years, our mobile phones
every year and our lover every three days
39) Because when others used to be clothed with wolf skin were weaving
see-through linen
40) Because in warfare "Greeks do not fight as heroes, heroes fight like
Greeks" (Winston Churchill, 1941)
41) Because we don't use ketchup with our food - it tastes good anyway
42) Because we gave our ancient alphabet to the Romans and our medieval
alphabet to the Slavs
43) Because we converted all of Eastern Europe into Christians
44) Because we get angry quickly but we forget all about it even quicker
45) Because we are not ashamed to cry
46) Because we dance when we are sad
47) Because we work to live and we do not live to work
48) Because 97% of the stars' in the heavens names are Greek
49) Because although we know danger well, we dare
50) Because when you shout "brother" in the streets everyone turns
around
51) Because we always talk about getting in a diet after we had our meal
52) Because we speak loudly and laugh even louder
53) Because we do not know what anxiety is
54) Because, although we smoke more than anyone in the world and eat the
most red meat in Europe - we live the longest in the world.
55) Because we are starting with "just a coffee" early afternoon and end
up off our heads in the morning
56) Because we walk in the streets at 2:00 in the morning and there are
traffic jams
57) Because we walk in the streets at 4:00 in the morning and there are
traffic jams
58) Because girls are not scared to walk alone in the streets at 2:00 or
4:00 o'clock in the morning
59) Because the inside of all our churches are not dark, but full of
light
60) Because we are direct
61) Because we know how to cheat
62) Because we never report people who cheat
63) Because we always have a solution to problems, even if usually
indirect or illegal
64) Because we have tendencies to extremity
65) Because our parents do not forget that we exist when we reach 18
66) Because when we want to sunbathe, we go to the beach, we don't crawl
on grass or jump into fountains
67) Because we confront every difficulty with humour
68) Because the Olympic games were born here
69) Because, with our (Olympic) light, we unite the world and pass the
message of peace
70) Because we live permanently in the country that foreigners dream to
visit for a week
71) Because our sky is blue, not grey
72) Because we have the cleanest seas on the planet
73) Because 40% of Oxford dictionary is made up with Greek words
74) Because we are a poor country with very rich citizens
75) Because we really know what "Kefi" (propensity to fun) means
76) Because we like to spend money and eat fish while they are still
fresh
77) Because Homer wrote "The Iliad" 3500 years ago and Hollywood turned
it into a movie (Troy) just recently
Because in Greece nobody is hungry
79) Because in Greece nobody is homeless
80) Because we speak foreign languages - who learns Greek?
81) Because Tsikoudia from Crete is the strongest drink in Europe (85%
alcohol)
82) Because we grow hallucigenic weed without biological engineering!!
83) Because our "model for life" has many curves
84) Because we wear sandals without socks
85) Because we get paid on Friday and we end up owing money by Monday
morning
86) Because we gave the world the oath "Freedom or Death"
87) Because God did not choose us as His favourite people, but we chose
God
88) Because we are European Champions in football
89) Because we have a small, poor country full of people with big hearts
90) Because, only in Greece and Cyprus, the guy who prepares the souvlaki asks the
young lady: "What shall I put in?" And she happily replies
"Please,everything!"
