YFred wrote:DT. wrote:denizaksulu wrote:Get Real! wrote:denizaksulu wrote:Get Real! wrote:I must say, our Macedonian friends at the MakNews forum, UTTERLY DEMOLISH modern Greece’s mythologies with an overwhelming collection of damning evidence from a multitude of authors, from all over the world including Greeks! Truly fascinating stuff!
I strongly encourage everyone to read through all 5 pages of posts of that thread. My goodness…
GR, why cant these forumers see your sense of humour? Put them out of their misery and tell them its a wind-up.
How can it possibly be a wind up Deniz? Dozens of authors from all over the world have conducted their independent research and end up agreeing that modern Greeks are full of shit about so many things…
All these experts who have nothing to gain are wrong yet the Greeks who have so much to lose are right?
I was not disagreeing with you DT. I am assuming GR is winding you lot up. I hate to see him further humiliated. After all, he is my fellow Chiroikhitian.
The fraternity of Chirokoitians is eccentric enough to be able to confuse itself sometimes in its quest for a different approach to maintaining an identity on this island.
On the one hand there is a need to halt repetitive mistakes of the past with associating itself with the mother countries and on the other by dissasociating itself it is providing ammunition to the little ticky-birds that plague this forum.
On the GC side this is a much easier task since it is done in conjunction with Greece's "i don't wanna know" attitude (ran by Karamanlis) regarding Cyprus. Not so for the TC side were apart from an educated Istanbulian elite who'd be happy to loosen ties with Cyprus in favour of an EU path, the grasp on the TC's is very much strong.
So a GC Chirokoitian casting Greece away is seen as less of a traitor and more of an eccentric than a TC doing the same.
GR! can post what he likes for his own amusement and if he digs deep his issue is with an image of Hellenism as personified with certain people he knows rather than his background. The betrayal in 1974 of the Cypriots by the Junta will never be forgotten either by the likes of GR despite it being a betrayal by the governing dictators and not the people.
There are some that are content with the co-existence of the 2 in their psyche (such as myself) but that has more to do with your background rather than what you know now.
Anyway,
I wouldn't mind any of this so much but for the poor, badly researched, kindergarten level posts the Fredsans (insan/yfred) post as the resident ticky-birds.
How dare you underestimate my education level, I have an Ilkokul diploma with pekiyi I'll have you know.
One of the topics included was how not to get shot by the beloved eoka. I passed that with flying colours. And you call yourself a Cypriot.
I don't call me anything. Why would EOKA shoot you? Were you collaborating with the English?