Nikitas wrote:Alexis,
I find his arrogance fairly typical and echoing superficial but widely held views such as "we will take Cyprus", or other comments derogatory of Turkish Cypriots. Once I asked a former high ranking military man who was in the "we will take Cyprus" mode who he was going to take it from and who he was going to give it to and he called me half breed saracen.
The "we will take Cyprus" mentality belongs to a minority of far-right undereducated misanthropes, the likes of which can easily be met everywhere in the world, including Greece, Turkey or Cyprus, thus it's not an exclusively Greek trait.
Nikitas wrote:Parallel to this chauvinistic arrogacne there is a mysterious anti Greek racism practiced by the Greeks themselves
That is true, but this attitude is neither chauvinistic nor arrogant.
Nikitas wrote:just think of the word Koloellina (asshole Greek) used by Greeks towards each other. There was even a pop song with that title!
You should not take this word out of the context that Savvopoulos put it in. Its purpose is to satirize the mentality of some "misbehaving" Greeks, not to apply a generalization that serves anti-Greek purposes.
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Nikitas wrote:Now read again SNs posts and see if these tendencies are not reflected there.
They are not