boomerang wrote: since even the hard core piratis admits greece ain't looking so rosy...this begs the question then, why are we still flying their flag and calling ourselves greeks?...
Try this:
Those of us who feel that we are part of a Nation and feel proud to be part of it, do not turn our heir backs on our Nation in the event of misfortunes or even of costly and embarrassing mistakes (not to mention of the sacrifices this Nation might have gone in the past for us which is an issue of another subject and not to mention if indeed our Nation and it's goverments carry as much a blame as you attribute to them for our hardhips).
But to carry on and as I was saying, it is when our Nation is in a difficult situation that we need to stand by it even more vigorously than under normal circumstances. If all expatriate Greeks and Greek Cypriots had been acting and thinking the way you suggest, there wouldn’t be any “Greek Diaspora” left. Let me remind you of the 1.500.000 Greeks from Asia Minor who were massacred and had to abandon their birth places and properties due to the mistakes of the Greek State but have never turned their back to Hellas and the Nation. Let me also remind you of the 350.000 Greeks who were chased out of Turkey in 1955 as a result of the support of the Greek Nation and the Greek governments to the EOKA straggle in Cyprus, but never uttered a complain against either Greece or the Cypriots.
It is your pitiful privilege to chose to bury your head in the sand or under the bush of Australia or the ground of England or whatever, and pretend you are not of Greek descent, but from Mars or from Choirokoitia etc, trying, thus, to avoid the contemptuous and arrogant way in which the Anglo-Saxons have always treated you and your children and all other Greeks and Greek Cypriots and all other non English emigrants, instead of having the guts to stand up and defend what you are and what you represent. But let the rest of us, who do have these guts, to be proud for being of Hellenic descent and to keep demonstrating it, loud and clear. And stop bothering us. You are loosing your time trying to insult us.
PS1. When my cousin, who was born in Melbourne, went home one day telling her Greek Cypriot father contemptuously: “guess what! Another Greek family just moved into our neighborhood” her father put her in a plane and took her to Greece to show her what Greece is all about and make her feel proud of her heritage and able to stand fast against the Anglo-Saxon insults. But, like I said. This is what you do when you have guts and PRIDE and self esteem and self respect. Man or woman alike.
PS2. Another explanation for your stance and the obsession against Hellenism of you and the likes of you, could be that you are Akelists. It is well known that Akelists, as well as Greek Communist Party supporters (KKE) have always been Hellenophobic. And they have always stood against any national effort of Hellenism for expansion to its old territories. And I do not blame them. Hellenic culture and spirit and the aspirations of the Hellenic Nation were totally incompatible and conflicting to their aspirations and their tyrannical, dogmatic and authoritarian cosmotheory.
Hope my answer covers you.
...no confusion with me...
no one can question them.....there are the father of the democracy but they never find for themself ..... can deny us 
