Tim Drayton wrote:So the Turkish community in Cyprus bears a collective guilt for the Ottoman invasion of Cyprus. Fair enough. The Turkish community in Cyprus, by definition, comprises all of its members. If that community bears a collective guilt, then it follows that each member of that community, and simply by virtue of being a member of that community, bears an automatic, individual guilt for the Ottoman invasion of Cyprus. Logically, each Turkish Cypriot is guilty the moment they are born. This is a racist ideology. That is how it works in my mind. If I am stupid, so be it.
I am sorry if you think that I have insulted you and if you could tell me what I have said to insult you, I will apologise.
Point me where I said anything about "collective guilt".
I repeat:
So I didn't blame Bir for anything his ancestors did. I simply reminded him of these facts, and beyond that if he doesn't like the fact that he was born on a Greek island then he can blame his own ancestors, not us for being what we have always been.
So if say you have children in Cyprus, who will be born Cypriot Citizens but will not belong in the same ethnicity as the majority of the population, would they have the right to demand from us to change our identity and the identity of our island because they don't like it?
Should they tell us that if we want to continue to be Greek, as we have been for 1000s of years, we should move out of Cyprus and leave Cyprus to them? Can they blame us for being what we have been for millennia?
If they don't like the fact that they were born on a Greek island living among a majority of Greeks can they blame us for this? If they have to blame somebody that somebody is only their parents, since if their parents stayed in England then they wouldn't have the "bad luck" of been born on a Greek island living among Greeks.