The Cypriot wrote:Simon wrote:Half-hearted Greeks? I think you've just lost the argument Neo-Cypriot.
I was just highlighting your contradiction.
Neo-Cypriot? Do me a favour... I've been a Cypriot all my life; my parents were Cypriots and their parents too. Go back a further generation and who knows? And the same goes for most Cypriots - whichever prefix they choose now to attach to themselves, following the 1960 constitution imposed on us by foreigners.
"Neo-Greek" might be a better description for you. As the mythology you espouse about yourself was learnt: at school; at church; at youth club; and/or from home... from parents and family members who similarly learnt it. But you certainly weren't born with the notion about yourself.
BTW, I know "neo-Cypriot" is a derogatory term used to label Cypriots who are happy to face the world without a prefix but be careful when using it to describe named individuals in print. I have taken legal advice and the term is potentially libellous, as it suggests other terms like "Neo-Nazi" and "Neo-Fascist" and the political extremism they imply.
If you want to add a prefix, and do so safely, I suggest you add the following: "Proud".
Being Greek was never imposed on us, your neo-Cypriot ideology was imposed by foreigners and you have been brainwashed with it. What I have learnt about the Greeks is from my own independent study. So aim your silly presumptions elsewhere. Perhaps you read the Cyprus Mail too much? I consider "half-hearted Greek" to be a derogatory term, so use this label against me, then I will continue calling you a neo-Cypriot. Do your worst with your libel action!
What suggests the extremism is not the "neo" but the "Nazi" or the "Fascist".
"Neo" just means recent or new.
Where did you say you got your legal advice? I suppose when political commentators called Bush and his friends Neocons they all got sued...