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[kurupetos]

Stop picking on our most sacred morons mapko.

You are f*cked in the head.

[kurupetos]

Have always wondered how the mainland Greeks view Cypriots. (from a 'purity' perspective )
I'm not entirely sure if the 'love' is entirely reciprocated.
Just sayin...

You are confused.

[kurupetos]

No Greek from any one region loves another. Too competitive. It's what drove the early development of civilisation.

Very true Ms. O. Even GCs dislike GCs from other regions, e.g., Nicosian vs. Limassolian, etc.

[bill cobbett]

This lady for president, its about time a few more countries did this as well.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Gem of a speech.

Multi-culturalism has failed and failed miserably. Keeps people isolated and apart. Here in London we have a bunch of CYs masquerading as greeks, (you know the usual problem) and the self-delusional buggers are trying to start a Free Greek School with GB government funds. Pollocks to that.

... as the OZ lady says if they don't like our Anglo-Saxon ways, they have a right to leave, to bugger off to Greece.

You are a goblin. Stay in your cage.

How many times have to tell you...? Am a sort of English Gremlin... not a flipping goblin!!! ...

Oh... and puss off back to Myceaneucia or wherever it is you think you come from.

[wyoming cowboy]

No Greek from any one region loves another. Too competitive. It's what drove the early development of civilisation.

Exactly Gig girl, since the early days, Greeks have been competitive with one another, Athens v Sparta, Athens v The Cretans, The Trojans v Everyone and on and on...Elias Kazan, the Greek immigrant from central Anatolia, who managed to become one of the greatest film directors in Hollywood in the 50's, also mentions this competitiveness,in his autobiography, when he said that in the 20 th century no worthwhile Greek came from the mainland, and goes on to mention notorious Greeks, Venizenlos(Crete), Makarios(Cyprus), Aristotle Onassis(Asia Minor), Kazantzakis(Crete). So the competitiveness is there and has always been there....

[kurupetos]

This lady for president, its about time a few more countries did this as well.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Gem of a speech.

Multi-culturalism has failed and failed miserably. Keeps people isolated and apart. Here in London we have a bunch of CYs masquerading as greeks, (you know the usual problem) and the self-delusional buggers are trying to start a Free Greek School with GB government funds. Pollocks to that.

... as the OZ lady says if they don't like our Anglo-Saxon ways, they have a right to leave, to bugger off to Greece.

You are a goblin. Stay in your cage.

How many times have to tell you...? Am a sort of English Gremlin... not a flipping goblin!!! ...

Oh... and puss off back to Myceaneucia or wherever it is you think you come from.

Greeks are the seed of the world. They come from everywhere...

[wyoming cowboy]

This lady for president, its about time a few more countries did this as well.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =1&theater

Gem of a speech.

Multi-culturalism has failed and failed miserably. Keeps people isolated and apart. Here in London we have a bunch of CYs masquerading as greeks, (you know the usual problem) and the self-delusional buggers are trying to start a Free Greek School with GB government funds. Pollocks to that.

... as the OZ lady says if they don't like our Anglo-Saxon ways, they have a right to leave, to bugger off to Greece.

You are a goblin. Stay in your cage.

How many times have to tell you...? Am a sort of English Gremlin... not a flipping goblin!!! ...

Oh... and puss off back to Myceaneucia or wherever it is you think you come from.

Bill, before the brits put their claws on cyprus and began spreading their baloney about cypriots and hellenism, can you find anything in cypriot history before the brits, that challenged the hellenic culture the same way as the brits have been trying?

[DT.]

Actually we have always hated the mainland Greeks. We called them kalamarades, but this is the strange thing about the whole matter. We associated Greece with Socrates, Plato and all the great minds of ancient Greece. We knew nothing of the contemporary Greeks and there was no way of finding out of our own. Those few who did manage to go to Greece and came back, were full of praise, but they were just misleading us. In a similar way, all those who went to ex socialist countries to study, sent there because of the political convictions of their families, came back and were full of praise for countries such as the Soviet Union and Bulgaria. Listening to them you would think that these countries were a haven on earth.

So, you can understand the shock of people when they started to get to know the majority of modern Greeks, due to the easier travel opportunities, the explosion in information technology and the general ease of getting information. The mainland Greeks, in the eyes of most people, became examples to be avoided. Before the 60's we had painted an ideal picture of them in our mind and we looked up to them.

As for the mainland Greeks, I can say that they do not think much of us either. In a way, the feeling is mutual but there are exemptions of course, as always.

As usual Bananiot misleads in his own quaint way....

Actually we have always hated the mainland Greeks. We called them kalamarades

He says, failing to say that this term was a compliment rather than an insult. Kalamarades where the people with pens, the educated ones that could write.

[Bananiot]

Yes DT, I know, it is like saying that Karagiozis is not an insult but someone with black eyes.

[kurupetos]

Yes DT, I know, it is like saying that Karagiozis is not an insult but someone with black eyes.

You are a Karagiozis, and I mean it as an insult.