erolz66 wrote:repulsewarrior wrote: wow, i was waiting for erolz's reply, but i guess i just got it, what is yours, sotos; Cypriot before Greek?
No RW you misunderstand. Not Cypriot before Turkish but Cypriot INSTEAD of Turkish. I actually trust GR, who renounces any Greekness in favour of just Cypriot. You I do not trust for whilst you talk about Cypriot before Turk / Greek, you also constantly support classic GC propaganda versions of history, ignore excesses of the extremist GC here whilst haranguing the TC here. In short you talk of Cypriot ahead of Greek but you do not ACT in a manner consistent with such talk. Just Cypriot and only Cypriot with GR, yeah I could go for that. Unitary Cyprus with you, with all your talk of 'constituencies' and Cypriot flags higher than Greek and Turkish ones, whilst you actually act like GC no different in essence from Sotos and B25 ? No sorry does not get my vote.
...who can disagree with what GR is saying, it is simple and elegant, natural; but i suggest that as Cypriots, to achieve this State, it requires from Greek Cypriots an expression of their needs as Greeks, in a manner where Cypriots not Greek have an equal opportunity to the same form of self-representation should numbers warrant and they so choose, as Persons. otherwise, as Individuals it becomes a state where the only stability is a disinheritance with the past that is complete, what living relics we do have will die more slowly, but they are as sure as the decimation we have seen in the north; for a mono-clonal society, but Cypriot so to speak, ironically no different, Imperialistically speaking to what it replaces (but the same as most European Countries).
today the streets are filled (the vast majority) with their Language, and at the advent of the Information Age, they are generally able as an urban population, beside this mother-tongue, communicating in English, and in many other languages. i suggest that in GR's Cyprus, if you will, Greek, like Turkish, will be endangered, soon enough, in terms of economics, there is one Lingua Franca most useful to our children, toward making livings, that which in 90% of the world's communications is used; other Languages will be taught as second languages. in my Cyprus, at least, someone who prefers a simple life in the village, so to speak, can at least rest assured that for the service they get, the institutions are constructed for them, those that are likely to ask the least from government in their daily lives, there is someone who can speak to them in their language, respectfully. respectfully, erolz, you may choose, and i may choose, GR may choose, sotos may choose, to live lives where we communicate in, dare i say it, English. what with the desire to enjoy the distinctions of a National Identity i prefer to recognise that out of many, as one, we defend them all.
And why would non Greeks want to take Greek schooling? Our schooling is Greek because we are Greek. When you were raised abroad it is not the schooling who made you non Greek. It is that you were growing up in a foreign society, with foreign language, foreign religion and foreign culture.
