Oracle wrote:Get Real! wrote:Get Real! wrote: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.
What a beautiful piece I wrote back then...
Well done dear ....
(Do you usually go around re-reading your old stuff)
Only when I need a hard on...
