Cyprus Mail, Yiangos Mikellides wrote:Fascinated by the modern Cypriot
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He may be shy, but he speaks his mind. Why don’t more people do this? “Cypriots are cowards,” he replies. “Whether it’s our genes, or our history – a very cowardly people. Shit-scared. And they brown-nose, and kiss ass, and brown-nose…”
Yiangos is in rant mode now: “I think, as a race, they’re cowards. They’re like women. Don’t you hear their voices?” Excuse me? “Their little voices. Eee eee eee,” he adds in a whimpery falsetto. “They won’t seek confrontation, they won’t say ‘Mikellides, you’re an idiot!’ – it’s all ‘oh, Mr. Mikellides…’”. He used to hear it with his father, a Nicosia pharmacist whose voice literally changed when he went to meetings with big clients. “I’d say ‘re Andrea, what’s happened to your voice, re koumbare?’ It became softer. He became more of a kiss-ass”. He prefers the English working-class, adds Yiangos, who’ll “beat you up in two seconds flat” – and of course it must be significant that he lived in Britain between the ages of 17 and 40, giving him an outsider’s perspective on his fellow countrymen.
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From participating in this forum and seeing your sorry ass national attitude that is predicated around negotiating with eternal hated enemy Turkey and going so far as to consider Turkish Cypriots as brothers, totally confirms his assessment as correct. You are nation with little national dignity or resolve, but too much cowardice and whining.
To interrupt this, here is how a nation with pride and a will to exist and thrive behaves:
