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[Viewpoint]

Why do you people just continue to make excuses? There is an underlying threat in a united Cyprus which we are trying to point out, what will you do if these incidents occur against TCs and the police take no actions will you still be making excuses or turning a blind eye?

That's the very problem... you're trying too hard!

Trying to hard to point out our concerns? if we dont who will? you GCs are prone to ignoring or turning the other cheek when others are in danger so we have to try has hard as we can to make you see how wrong you are in the hope that you will change, but from your responses not much chance of that, maybe another 100 years of division might just might do the trick.

[Bananiot]

Andreas Demetriou, Education Minister:

The incident had powerful elements of racism and aggression. As a society, our mentality is very wrong. Schools are part of the problem. If you cultivate in children that we are the superior race, it affects their acceptance of multiculturalism.

Well done Minister! At last, now that the problem has been identified we can deal with it.

[Piratis]

Andreas Demetriou, Education Minister:

The incident had powerful elements of racism and aggression. As a society, our mentality is very wrong. Schools are part of the problem. If you cultivate in children that we are the superior race, it affects their acceptance of multiculturalism.

Well done Minister! At last, now that the problem has been identified we can deal with it.

I wonder how they teach such thing in our schools, apart for the obvious admiration to the Greek civilization, which is admired all over the world and not only here.

What is certain is that we do not have an equivalent to things like "One Turk equals the whole world" and similar racist remarks of Ataturk, who his sayings are followed religiously by the Turks.

[Bananiot]

Can we deal with our own problems first and then perhaps we can take a serious look at the situation in Timpaktu and elsewhere.

[Oracle]

I wish the Turks would go to Timbuktu (sorry to the people of Mali) and leave our country alone and free from their brand of overt racism which has deprived our people of their homes and history.

[Piratis]

Can we deal with our own problems first and then perhaps we can take a serious look at the situation in Timpaktu and elsewhere.

That is exactly what I am saying too. The Turk who started this thread should first look at the far worst problems of Turkey and its illegal puppet state which is created based on racism, ethnic cleansing and human rights violations, and we will deal with our own problems.

If they want to talk about our problems then surely we also have the right to talk about their, far worst, problems.

Turkey is a country build on nationalism and racism, where nothing different is tolerated. Those who are different were either genocided (Armenians, Greeks etc), or oppressed and ignored (Kurds). Those people who dare talk about racism in Turkey face prosecution, exile and they are often murdered. All these is done by the racist Turkish state.

On the other hand, our racism problem is no worst than aany other country. Our journalists are free to write about it and condemn it, and our government is doing everything it can to stop such phenomena.

So the racist Turks should look at their own State supported racism, and the human rights violations they inflict on 100s of thousands and millions of people just because they are Greek Cypriots, Kurds Armenians etc, and then come here to accuse Cyprus of racism because we have a few racist incidents by some criminal individuals.

[Bananiot]

So, you agree with our Minister but you are also concerned that worst things happen elsewhere. This attitude, I am sorry to say, is only observed when one tries to justify the culprit. This makes you just as bad as those you accuse of being grand racist.

[Piratis]

So, you agree with our Minister but you are also concerned that worst things happen elsewhere.

No, I don't agree with the specific of what he said. Racists exist everywhere, so are we going to come to the conclusion that everywhere the education system is flowed? We don't have any more problem than they have in any other EU country.

This attitude, I am sorry to say, is only observed when one tries to justify the culprit. This makes you just as bad as those you accuse of being grand racist.

And were did I justify them? Racist actions are criminal actions like any other criminal action. Every country has its criminals, and there is no kind of education system or society that can produce only perfect citizens.

I simply stated the fact that those who accuse Cyprus of racism in this thread are way worst themselves, and in fact they started this thread to excuse their own racist actions against 100s of thousands of innocent people.

[Bananiot]

The democratically elected government through the appropriate Minister has accused the education system of producing sick racists. Why should we believe you Piratis?

[Viewpoint]

Andreas Demetriou, Education Minister:

The incident had powerful elements of racism and aggression. As a society, our mentality is very wrong. Schools are part of the problem. If you cultivate in children that we are the superior race, it affects their acceptance of multiculturalism.

Well done Minister! At last, now that the problem has been identified we can deal with it.

I wonder how they teach such thing in our schools, apart for the obvious admiration to the Greek civilization, which is admired all over the world and not only here.

What is certain is that we do not have an equivalent to things like "One Turk equals the whole world" and similar racist remarks of Ataturk, who his sayings are followed religiously by the Turks.

Total crap Piratis and you know it....you are excusing you own misfuctions and racists nurturing education system with something that doesnt exsist, Ataturk said that just when his soliders we going to die in battle. You are so ignorant that you take it out of context and use it as an excuse for your own wrongs.