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[Maximus]

I dont know about that, but what I do know is the Brits are the best at identity politics.

They can make a Greek hate Greece or convince a Nigerian that he is English.

If you see two fish fighting in a river, the British were probably there. - native American proverb.

[Get Real!]

I dont know about that, but what I do know is the Brits are the best at identity politics.

They can make a Greek hate Greece or convince a Nigerian that he is English.

If you see two fish fighting in a river, the British were probably there. - native American proverb.

Well take it up with them... because that's not the case in our case.

There are private English language schools worldwide and they're not necessarily run by the British!

They are typically prestigious private schools which cost a fortune to attend, and are highly esteemed in their respective countries.

Now do you get it?

[Maximus]

I dont know about that, but what I do know is the Brits are the best at identity politics.

They can make a Greek hate Greece or convince a Nigerian that he is English.

If you see two fish fighting in a river, the British were probably there. - native American proverb.

Well take it up with them... because that's not the case in our case.

There are private English language schools worldwide and they're not necessarily run by the British!

They are typically prestigious private schools which cost a fortune to attend, and are highly esteemed in their respective countries.

Now do you get it?

No, I was educated in an English language school.

[Get Real!]

I dont know about that, but what I do know is the Brits are the best at identity politics.

They can make a Greek hate Greece or convince a Nigerian that he is English.

If you see two fish fighting in a river, the British were probably there. - native American proverb.

Well take it up with them... because that's not the case in our case.

There are private English language schools worldwide and they're not necessarily run by the British!

They are typically prestigious private schools which cost a fortune to attend, and are highly esteemed in their respective countries.

Now do you get it?

No, I was educated in an English language school.

Well it couldn't have been a prestigious one because you're not the most colorful crayon in the box...

[Maximus]

I dont know about that, but what I do know is the Brits are the best at identity politics.

They can make a Greek hate Greece or convince a Nigerian that he is English.

If you see two fish fighting in a river, the British were probably there. - native American proverb.

Well take it up with them... because that's not the case in our case.

There are private English language schools worldwide and they're not necessarily run by the British!

They are typically prestigious private schools which cost a fortune to attend, and are highly esteemed in their respective countries.

Now do you get it?

No, I was educated in an English language school.

Well it couldn't have been a prestigious one because you're not the most colorful crayon in the box...

You are right, it wasn't, my parents couldn't afford to send me to a prestigious private school.

I wasn't as fortunate or as colorful as you.

[Maximus]

They taught me that Christopher Columbus discovered america.

[Get Real!]

They taught me that Christopher Columbus discovered america.

Consider yourself lucky... you could’ve attended a Greek-propaganda government school of Cyprus, and they don’t come much worse than that!

[Maximus]

They taught me that Christopher Columbus discovered america.

Consider yourself lucky... you could’ve attended a Greek-propaganda government school of Cyprus, and they don’t come much worse than that!

What about a Turkish language one?

[Get Real!]

They taught me that Christopher Columbus discovered america.

Consider yourself lucky... you could’ve attended a Greek-propaganda government school of Cyprus, and they don’t come much worse than that!

What about a Turkish language one?

Well the ones in the "TRNC" are probably just as bad, if not worse!

[erolz66]

Appreciate you Erolz,

But why are you mad at Paphitis for calling you a Turk,

Are you a different ethnicity or not?

What is this different ethnicity if not Turkish?

I am getting confused.

Firstly I am not mad at Paphitis, I just used his response, one that is very very common btw, to highlight a point I wished to try and make. I refute and challenge being called a Turk at the simplest level because I just am not Turkish. Nothing wrong with being Turkish, or Greek for that matter but neither is what I actually am. I was not born or ever lived in Turkey. Neither of my parents were born or lived in or were Turkish, nor my grand parents or my great grand parents or or. None of my family lives in or is Turkish. I am Cypriot. The particular kind of Cypriot I am is TC but that is not the same thing as being Turkish and I am a little confused as to why you can not see the difference to be honest ? If I were a Turkish person who lives in Cyprus I can be told to 'go back home'. As a TC I can not be told to 'go back home' because Cyprus, not Turkey is my home, in every sense of the word. Yet even after centauries of presence in Cyprus, my home, I am in fact regularly told by some Cypriots of a certain type to 'go back home'. This is a problem in so many ways and on so many levels. It is a problem that is intimately interlinked to the Cyprus problem, past and present imo.