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[DT.]

DT, do you need a louder example which shows our third world mentality than the unfolding saga of Anorthosis? The accusers have now withdrawn their accusations because Panteli has resigned! They also refused to give more evidence to the police and now the case is as good as closed.

its a small community Bananiot. The same thing happens in Lausanne, does that make Switzerland an african country?.

I take your point on the improvement angle you give but thats no way to make constructive criticism about your country. You can't claim your country is a banana republic, insult all its citizens and then claim that you are doing it for their own good so that they "try" to better themselves. Who made you everyone's therapist?

[Nikitas]

Bananiot said:

"The point about Cyprus being a third world country has to do with the mentality of most Cypriots -"

There is no such thing as a "national mentality". If you think about it you will realise that the invocation of any collective mentality is a racist statement. I can give you academic examples if you are interested but it should not be necessary.

There might be a prevailing way of doing things, but this is not the same thing as a natinonal mentality.

Over the years of living in Greece, where the phrase "Elliniki nootropia" (Greek mentality) is used by high ranking civil servants and politicians as an excuse not to do for the Greeks what their EU counterparts do for their citizens, I have come to see the racism in this phrase.

[Nikitas]

Kala re Bananiot,

Dont you read the papers? Listen to the radio? Footbal corruption scandals are rocking Germany right now, where have you been to tell them that they are displaying "Cypriot mentality"!

[Bananiot]

Nikita (re?) in Europe the perpetrators pay for their crimes, here they are rewarded ... but hold your horses on the Cypriot mentality or the mentality of the Cypriots. I think most people understand exactly what I mean.

[Piratis]

Nikita (re?) in Europe the perpetrators pay for their crimes, here they are rewarded ...

Isn't this the same thing you want for your Turkish friends? Not only that they should not pay for their crimes but that they should be rewarded on top of that?

If there is anything "Banana" in Cyprus, that is the British Bases and the "guarantor rights" that were forced on us in 1960. And now Bananiot wants to make Cyprus a complete Banana republic by making the whole of it a protectorate of Turkey just so he will satisfy his Turkish friends.

[Nikitas]

Bananiot,

I have seen this "national mentality" game play out often. One such manifestation was to say that Greeks cheat the EU and defraud funds.

Well, the EU antifraud service, OLAF, keeps statistics and they prove beyond doubt that the biggest cheats in EU are from the firt rank countries- Germany, UK, Italy, while Greece and other small counties are way down in the league.

There is no such thing as a national mentality. People adapt to the circumstances they face, and these circumstances result from choices and practices of the big player in the game, the government. Once these people face different circumstances, like they do when the emigrate, they adapt and do really well. It is ironic to see a Cypriot from Paphos do exemplary work as the leading doctor in a German town, when in Cyprus we talk about Paphites being the worst examples of "Cypriot mentality".