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[Piratis]

if that's the case why then you told GR he has an inferioty complex?...because he wasn't a greek?...

No. Because his seems to be uncomfortable that most other Cypriots are Greek.

well piratis, the last i checked this is a cyprus forum, not a greek forum...if you fell the need to be greek, by all means feel your self, but keep it private...no need to insult me with the we are all greeks...you keep on harping we are all greeks and i will keep on dumping...sounds fair to me piratis...

I never said "we are all Greeks". What I said is that the vast majority of Cypriots are Greek, and this is just a fact. The insults are all coming from the Greek haters. I never said that you, GR or anybody else should be Greek if that is not how you feel, and obviously I would never insult anybody for being Cypriot because that is what I am as well. So yes, this is a Cyprus Forum and you can't have a Cyprus forum where the majority of the population, the Greek Cypriots, are not represented. Beyond that I personally never started any threads about Greece but you (and others) seem to do so quite often even though this forum is specifically for Cyprus.

and when are you going to acknowledge greece's hand in this mess?...

I did contemn the coupists and everybody else that had a share of responsibility including Greeks and Greek Cypriots. But equating the responsibility of Greece with that of Turkey which is currently and for 38 years illegally occupying half of Cyprus is wrong and helps only the Turkish propagandists and nobody else.

re esi ides kalamara tjie anthropo...ego oi...potte mou enida kalamara tjie anthropo...just today enas katsikogleftis calls me a kipreo epidi ton ekama charge $11 freight for his goods to him with a fucking whopping 30% discount on his order and he calls me and argues about the freight, trying to get the freight for free...i called him a poushto kalamara and told him to lose me number and hanged up...he calls back and apologises...what a ball breaker...

just one story out of thousands...keep in mind melbourne is the 3rd largest greek city in the world...but do you see greek culture anywhere, nope...i see identity stealing during the australian open, and plenty of it....simply don't trust them...am i wrong?...

I don't know the kind of people you are dealing with and I know several perfectly fine non Cypriot Greeks. I know some not nice ones also, but I know several not nice Cypriots as well. You can't generalize.

[kurupetos]

What do you feel when you hear the national anthem of Cyprus GR?

Nausea...

The problem in your case GR is that you have an identity crisis. You were raised in a foreign country but you didn't quite fit there because your parents were first generation immigrants so you couldn't really call yourself "English" (or whatever else). You came to Cyprus but you don't quite fit here either because you were raised abroad. This seems to create a problem to you, but you are dealing with it in the wrong way.

You need to accept that your personal identity is partly shaped from being raised abroad. No problem with this at all. You just need to realize that most Cypriots are not like you. I can accept your particularities and I have no problem how you choose to identify yourself. But please realize that you are in no position to give to us lessons of Cypriotness, nor you have any right to come from Britain, Australia etc and tell to the locals here what their ethnicity and identity should be.

So you have surmised that without the Greek-sponsored secondary education, I ended up lacking in the Hellenic department as an adult and am therefore unable to fit in with you and your classmates!

You’re a genius!

Yer bum's oot the windae.

[Cap]

Is it just me or are the majority of the Pro Greek/Enosis members on this forum based abroad?

[ZoC]

I never said "we are all Greeks". What I said is that the vast majority of Cypriots are Greek, and this is just a fact.

the majority of cypriots may feel they are greek (and this may indeed be a fact, though it would be nice to see evidence) but the majority of cypriots are not - according to how the civilised world defines these things in 2012 - greek. because being greek means being a citizen of greece. and most cypriots are citizens of cyprus. and that is just a fact.

incidentally, i am a british citizen who used to feel he was cypriot. but less so these days. a lot less.

[Cap]

British Cypriot ZoC. Can't change it.
We could stoop to even lower fathoms of existence, but you can't deny the fact.

[ZoC]

British Cypriot ZoC. Can't change it.
We could stoop to even lower fathoms of existence, but you can't deny the fact.

capparoui mou! i can't deny that both my parents were british subjects born on the island of cyprus - 'cos that's not a feeling but an indisputable fact: i've seen their passports. but london's such a melting pot these days (so many shades and permutations of people - third / fourth generation immigrants now mixed with the indigenous as well as each other) that any connection to any place else, is entirely discretionary.

i find myself entirely comfortable in my own personal skin and in the company of others who think as i, regardless of our origins...

[ZoC]

........is .this the flag flying on the coral beach road ...............if so it seems to celebrate a waste pumping station ..................there is irony there somewhere ....

i could see it from the hotel i was staying in paphos... huge and incongruous. just flying there along the edge of the coast. u can see it from the main road... we was passing it one day, on a trip to coral beach by bus. could hear a number of people murmur how ridiculous it looked.

btw, re: cypriot words.... here's one for wyoming to fret about.

batiha = watermelon
(the greeks call it 'karpouzi', from the turkish 'karpuz')

by the way, batiha is probably french in origin.... pastèque = watermelon in french...

(so too flaouna.... flaon = flan in french)

so, in order to sound more sophisticated and less peasant-like, cypriots stopped using a word that's french in origin, for one that's turkish in origin...

[GreekIslandGirl]

Strange how they are now openly admitting they are soooo uncertain of their own identity and ethnicity; and yet act so certain of what the identity and ethnicity of others is or is not.

What time wasters ...

[ZoC]

Strange how they are now openly admitting they are soooo uncertain of their own identity and ethnicity; and yet act so certain of what the identity and ethnicity of others is or is not.

What time wasters ...

i suggest u ignore everything i post from now on so i waste no more of your precious time. in fact, i insist on it.

[Cap]

The monstrosity is back.
With an ELAM badge on it.

Gawd, how embarrassing.