Nikitas wrote:I am half Greek and half Cypriot, and I choose to call myself Cypriot because that is being Greek plus. It took me many years to realise what Gerald Durrell meant when he had written "Cyprus is the most Greek of all the Greek islands". And for the same reasons I have questioned the idea of Enosis. If there is any Hellenic ideal behind Enosis then it is Greece that should be asking to be united to Cyprus and not the other way round.
Now I will wait for the mainland Greeks who visit the forum to have a go.
Nikitas, I don't think the mainland Greeks view the Cypriots as any less Greek. Maybe it's your Greek half which allows you to feel comfortably more Greek because of the Cypriot half. Greeks recognise just how Greek the GCs are.
It's only those GCs who have been brainwashed into neutralising their Greekness, to satisfy the Turks, who have a 'problem' with a Greek identity (and most of those would say otherwise in private). So although some GCs exist who (publicly) deny their Greekness, you will never find a mainland Greek who denies the Greekness of Cypriots other than denigrating their characteristic of denying being Greek.
However, I think there has been a greater unity between GCs and mainland Greeks, especially since 1974, and more recently a further concentration of togetherness since joining the EU.
Decades ago, I used to be teased in my village for being half Greek, but now a lot of my villagers are married to mainland Greeks or living and working in Greece. It takes them less than two years to sound like "Kalamarades" (and my village has one of the strongest
Cypriot Greek accents you are ever likely to hear)
Greece rejected the acquisition of Cyprus on two occasions in the 19th century because Greek politicians knew that the notion that Mycenaeans came here in 1500BC was a load of baloney invented by their grandparents 100 years earlier! 
