However there is a very small part of the Greek Cypriot population that mainly due to the events of 1974 has distanced itself from Hellenism and is struggling to persuade the rest that it is impossible to be a Greek Cypriot and that we Cypriots are a different breed of people. In addition they label us as fascists and nationalists because we have accepted the truth that we the 80% of the population of the island are Greeks and we are the lucky ones from the other islanders of the Aegean to have our own sovereign recognized state!
In addition there is the general belief that whatever Greek or of Greek origin adopted by our society, including simple things like using only those Latin characters that are common on the Greek alphabet for our car number plates and getting rid of the idiotic "ΛΤΔ" for the Turkish or Greek equivalent, is going to harm our fragile relationship with those who have supported the ethnic cleansing and massacre of thousands of Cypriots.
