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[magikthrill]

Piratis im only airing my honest opinion.

Nobody said otherwise vp. All were saying is that your honest opinion is a racist opinion.

[MicAtCyp]

garbitsch you can marry a GC up to you but you will pollut the TC race and this will give GCs what they want no TCs on the face of the earth

Polute what race VP? Jeez you will consider MY children a polution of my or your race instread of half of me half of my spouce, and a product of our sincere commitment in life? Or perhaps you consider your children a copy of yourself? They are NOT.

By the way notice the law of tature says "the different get attracted to each other". Sexually I beleive there is no TC who wouldn’t love to do it with a GC of the opposite sex, and vice-versa. You included VP!

[Piratis]

Sexually I beleive there is no TC who wouldn’t love to do it with a GC of the opposite sex, and vice-versa. You included VP!

Ok, no need to exaggerate here

Problems do exist between such kind of marriages, lets not hide it.

For example what will be the first language of the child? Sure it can learn both, but in most cases the child will learn one language a bit more than the other. For me this is the main problem. However, this is a general problem that would exist with all non Greek/Turkish speaking people and it didn't stop thousands of Cypriots to marry people that speak a different language.

Religion introduces several other problems, thats why it would be much better if we were all atheists

[Viewpoint]

Turkish Cypriot Marries Greek Cypriot they have a child, what is it??? TurkGek Cypriot or Grek-Turk Cypriot, one confused child, forget it lets all stick to our own, if it means being a racist in this issue, then so be it.

[erolz]

Turkish Cypriot Marries Greek Cypriot they have a child, what is it??? TurkGek Cypriot or Grek-Turk Cypriot, one confused child, forget it lets all stick to our own, if it means being a racist in this issue, then so be it.

TC marries and english person, they have a child. What is it? It is me. I am not confused. I am not less than anybody else and yes the aversion to mixed marriages is classicaly racist in it foundation (imho).

[Viewpoint]

erolz with all due respects you are neither one or the other, you are a fusion of cultures and many children of mix marriages rebel against one ethnic origin its is a classical symptom of identification crisis and in many English/Turkish children living in the UK, the Turkish Cypriot identity is rejected for that of the English one due to environment and peer pressure. Add to this the bad blood between GCs and TCs what do you get a confused and potentially mentally effected confused and placed in limbo with regards to belonging to one or the other parents origin. I dont want this for my offspring, however racists this may sound its a choice I myself took by marrying a TC lady and in a free democratic world I feel I have this right, my children have the right to marry who they want but they have shown absoulutly no signs of choosing outside of their own ethnic origin. Its very weird they have known GCs for many years even before the restrictions were removed and have never commented on even the slightest possibility of considering GCs as a potential spouse. Before you comment that I have brain washed them into hating GCs you cannot be further from the truth, I have never discussed this issue with them.

[erolz]

erolz with all due respects you are neither one or the other, you are a fusion of cultures

and all the better for it as far as I am concerned

and many children of mix marriages rebel against one ethnic origin its is a classical symptom of identification crisis and in many English/Turkish children living in the UK, the Turkish Cypriot identity is rejected for that of the English one due to environment and peer pressure.

I do not deny or reble against eithe my Britishness or my Cypriotness. I embrace both equally.

Add to this the bad blood between GCs and TCs what do you get a confused and potentially mentally effected confused and placed in limbo with regards to belonging to one or the other parents origin.

I am as sane and as un mentally affected by my mixed race background as any mono race person - as far as I am concerned.

I dont want this for my offspring, however racists this may sound its a choice I myself took by marrying a TC lady and in a free democratic world I feel I have this right,

Of course you have the right to marry who you want. This is exactly the point. If a GC wants to marry a TC and the TC wants to marry them then who is anyone to say that is wrong?

my children have the right to marry who they want but they have shown absoulutly no signs of choosing outside of their own ethnic origin. Its very weird they have known GCs for many years even before the restrictions were removed and have never commented on even the slightest possibility of considering GCs as a potential spouse. Before you comment that I have brain washed them into hating GCs you cannot be further from the truth, I have never discussed this issue with them.

Thats fine and good. The difficult question for you however is how you would behave IF they decided they wanted to marry outside the TC community? Would you forbid it? Would you 'boycott' such a union. Or would you accept it and trust you childs judgement. You can say this would never happen but the real point is how would you behave if it DID happen?

[Viewpoint]

have to be honest if it were any nationality outside TCs i would be very disappointed.

[uzan]

I dont know what you are talking about, it was law gc couldnt marry tc until I think last year.

[garbitsch]

That law (in RoC) was prohibiting the marriage between Christians and Muslims, I think. It is abolished now.