Realist wrote: What I would say though is that even if all GC stopped waving Greek flags, there would still be members of the international community that would site other reasons to call GC nationalist.
Such as?
Realist wrote: I've heard people say that we should change the official language of the island. Now it would be an interesting experiment if both sides decided to participate but I fear that the real reasons for asking this kind of things to be done is to gradually culturally cleanse the GC of their common values.
Realist, this is utter rubbish! Show me evidence of one single rational and serious person on the entire earth planet that has said something like that, and I will give up and go to become a hodja! You have to understand that no one is asking you or me or any other G/C to abandon our Greek or Greek Cypriot cultural heritage, or stop enhancing it, or stop speaking our language and /or stop following our customs, religion, tradition, etc, etc. You have to understand that the Greek flag and anthem are state symbols, and do not determine ones cultural identity. They are state symbols of another country, a brotherly friendly country, nevertheless another country! We are a separate, independed, sovereign country, and as such we have or we ought to have our own state symbols, and honour them! I do not claim that we should completely ban and trash the use of the Greek flag at places and times where and when it is appropriate. However, for god’s sake we should not emphasise it anymore than we should be doing for our own state symbols! Otherwise, the whole notion becomes absurd, oxymoron and paradoxical. We cannot be doing precisely the same thing with what the other side -which we term an outlaw entity and an illegally occupied territory of our country, is doing! We cannot claim to be the only legal entity in this country, the one representing the entire people (all the communities) of this nation /state, and at the same time use whatever an illegal entity is doing as an excuse to do likewise. After all, our Greekness as a community (in its socio-cultural form,) dates from thousands of years back, while the symbols that the mainland Greek state is now using (flag and anthem,) are only a recent discovery. The Greek civilisation and way of thinking, did not achieve what they achieved, and did not gain the respect and appreciation that they enjoy, with the particular symbols as their trademarks. They are far bigger, far deeper and far more universal, to be identified and equated with the symbols of the Modern Greek nation state, alone and only.
Realist wrote: I have rarely heard such strong arguements for removing the Turkish flags from the north.
Okay then, since you have never heard such strong arguments for removing the Turkish flags from the illegally occupied north part of your country from Turkey, let’s do as they do as well! Let’s also give up our independed and legitimate status as the RoC, and let’s call our side the “Greek Republic of Southern Cyprus,” let’s concede to partition and let’s recognise the north as it was self-proclaimed the “Turkish republic of Northern Cyprus,” so that we can have plenty of Greek flags waving around us and so that we also call ourselves the proud Greeks of the south Greek Cyprus only, like some T/Cs do in the north!
Long live Grivas and Eoka B’! Long live partition! Long live Enosis of ½ Cyprus with motherland Greece! Long live ½ Cyprus of Greek Christian orthodox people! Long live “Greek republic of southern Cyprus!”
That is where we will end one day with such brains!
