Viewpoint wrote:Get Real! wrote:Viewpoint wrote:Do you understand why we feel this newly found "Cypriotism" peddled by GCs is a risk and just another name for osmosis, that's why we are unable to accept what you say. You are trying to get to last stage when we have not yet taken the first steps towards trusting each other, Cypriotism will only developed over time it cannot be forced.
That Cypriotism has ALWAYS existed is common sense and not some newfound theory, but that the "Turkish Cypriot" people belong to it is another story...
You wanted to be Greeks at one stage, thats why we are in the current situation, make your minds up.You never gave Cypriotism a chance, only in 1960 did we have anything to work on and we all know what happened there.
The fact that some people believed that they were not Cypriot but “Greek” over a relatively miniscule period of this island’s 10,000 year history, does not alter or eliminate their TRUE and NATURAL identity being none other than Cypriot, but simply adds a bizarre period to this island’s history whereby many Cypriots were SUCCESSFULLY BRAINWASHED mainly by the Orthodox Church, into denying the obvious!
A constitution, and in this case the London/Zurich agreements of 1959, is NOT what determines “ethnicity” or the derivation of a people’s origin but the fact that they have ORIGINATED FROM and even made FIRST CONTACT with this island (indigenousness).
To deny that “Cypriotness” exists is no sillier than to deny that “Greekness” in Greece or “Englishness” in England exists.
Therefore, one can conclude that the Greek Cypriots AUTOMATICALLY inherited Cypriotism whereas all other settlers such as the Ottomans had to ACQUIRE Cypriotism via CITIZENSHIP and this is what the 1960 constitution offered to the Turkish Cypriots which they chose to abandon.