It seems to me that Cypriots as well as Greeks emulate Middle Eastern men in growing beards, maybe they just think its ...fashionable !!!
Well, it might have been in the more progressive world some years back, but it no longer is..

Currently in Belarus and Im pleased to inform you that hardly anyone sports a beard, I have been told that the government levies heavy ...taxes on beards




My fellow Cypriots, take no notice of the backward Greeks, dont copy them, or the Arabs, shave those horrid whiskers off, they are NOT fashionable in the modern world.