Sotos wrote:
So you are Armenian Cypriot Kafenes? A cousin of mine had a relationship with an AC (Armenian Cypriot ) girl some years ago but her parents broke them up because they insisted that their daughter should marry only another AC.
Yes I am. Nowadays they're not that strict. A lot of mixed marriages between GC and AC lately. If my son or daughter said to me they met someone they love and want to get married, the last thing on my mind would be their race. My late wife (married in 1978 in Larnaca) was Australian and my parents adored her like their own daughter and never had any race conflict.
Going back to the picture, my grandfather would tell me stories of Asia Minor when they weren't allowed to practice their language, religion or music, so had to be done secretly. I wonder if this kind of things still go on in the world today.