james_mav wrote:If the Serbs and the Montenegrins cannot agree to both be Yugoslavs, how in the name of God can turks and Greeks agree to both be Cypriots? There is no such thing as a Cypriot, apart from an almost convenient political definition (and even that didn't work). There are just Greeks and turks, just like there were Greeks and turks on Crete before its own enosis.
The Cypriot ethnicity is lunacy just like the (slavo) "Macedonian" ethnicity. Any solution to the Cyprus problem that does not acknowledge this fact is doomed to fail.
Your 110% right. There is no such thing as a Cypriot, it's all bullsh1t for the government to label us.
Consider this, a Greek person goes to America, marries a Greek woman from America, has 2 children, those two children are Greek-Americans, just like the parents.
Consider this, an Arab comes to Cyprus with his Arab wife, has two children. Those children are now Cypriot. Anybody can be Cypriot, but not everybody can be Greek.
It's like when an Pakistani person in the UK says he is British, i am British too! But I am certainly not English, i am Greek through and through.
You are either Greek, Turkish, Maronite, Latin, Armenian etc. There is no such thing as a Cypriot. The term Cypriot is purely used as legality for the government to give it's citizens rights, or revoke rights as the case maybe.
Because I have a slight accent, sometimes people ask me if I am Cypriot. My reply is always i am a Greek European, but more Greek than European.
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