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[cyprus4ever]

Iv always thought that greeks look down on cypriots but then i was told that greeks see cypriots as stuck up and rich because most cypriots own houses where as most greeks live in polikatoikies. Is this true?

What do they really think of cypriots?

[miltiades]

Not a lot !

[Kifeas]

Iv always thought that greeks look down on cypriots but then i was told that greeks see cypriots as stuck up and rich because most cypriots own houses where as most greeks live in polikatoikies. Is this true?

What do they really think of cypriots?

Why are you so concerned about something like this? Do you believe that it might be possible for 11 million mainland Greeks to all have the same one single idea about Cypriots?

[cyprus4ever]

i mean in general, and thank you for your useful comment..

[Kifeas]

i mean in general, and thank you for your useful comment..

I do not know my friend, as there has not been a gallop that I know about and which throws light to what the mainland Greeks think about Cypriots, nor do I have this kind of insecurity concerns to go out and start asking.

[Bill]

Not a lot !

Well I can agree with that it's mostly Athenians but to put it in perspective they tend to look down on every one else anyway.

We used to visit Athens often -- as my wife's sister lives there -- I've often been shocked at the apparent look of disgust from them when my wife said "yes I'm from Cyprus".

One year we we near the bottom of the steps leading to the Acropolis and was asked by two middle aged Greek ladies where a particular church was -- I knew the location and as my Greek is not that good told my wife the directions so she could tell them -- as soon as my wife started speaking they said " your Cypriot " -- they then asked me if I could speak a little Greek when I replied "yes" they continued the conversation with me ( even though it was a struggle ) and completely blanked my wife.

When they asked if I had any Greek connection and I replied that my mum was from Samos but I now live in the UK they treated me like a long lost brother ( whilst still ignoring my wife ) and welcomed me ( and it was obvious they meant me only ) to Greece.

My wife was visibly upset by this and a couple of other incidents when out for a meal and she came to the conclusion that Greeks and in particular Athenians don't like Cypriots and look down on them as second class.

It certainly changed my wife's opinion of union with Greece.

Bill

[miltiades]

Those of us who have experience the Greeks of Greece , and yes mostly the Athenian peasants , have formed an educated opinion of them . Over the years I have interacted with hundreds of Greeks from Greece and have always argued with them that it is they that should have been demanding UNION - ENOSIS with Cyprus and not the other way around.

I dont trust them for as long as I can throw them .The Greek rich are for me the scum of the earth , the people who will mistreat their own people and take advantage of the less well off. They , the Athenians have always looked down on not only the Cypriots but any one not Athenian . The wealthy of Greece are mostly fascists inconsiderate first class peasants. Some Cypriot wealthy people try hard to emulate them .

[elko]

Iv always thought that greeks look down on cypriots but then i was told that greeks see cypriots as stuck up and rich because most cypriots own houses where as most greeks live in polikatoikies. Is this true?

What do they really think of cypriots?

Why are you so concerned about something like this? Do you believe that it might be possible for 11 million mainland Greeks to all have the same one single idea about Cypriots?

Kifeas is obviously upset about this subject. I am damn sure he knows the truth but it goes against his politics here. Greeks always look down on Greek Cypriots and some of the educated Greek Cypriots try to learn "proper" Greek as opposed to Cypriot Greek.
ismet

[hunter]

question is.....

Do the Cypriots really care what the greeks think???

[Kifeas]

Those of us who have experience the Greeks of Greece , and yes mostly the Athenian peasants , have formed an educated opinion of them . Over the years I have interacted with hundreds of Greeks from Greece and have always argued with them that it is they that should have been demanding UNION - ENOSIS with Cyprus and not the other way around.

I dont trust them for as long as I can throw them .The Greek rich are for me the scum of the earth , the people who will mistreat their own people and take advantage of the less well off. They , the Athenians have always looked down on not only the Cypriots but any one not Athenian . The wealthy of Greece are mostly fascists inconsiderate first class peasants. Some Cypriot wealthy people try hard to emulate them .

The above are just an opposite set of stereotyping views on the part of a Greek Cypriot, no different than the corresponding stereotyping set of views on the part of a section of the Greek public regarding Cypriots!

I have come to know hundreds of Athenian Greeks from all the sections of the society, and very few of them seem to correspond to what you have stereotyped them to be. Of course, if you are unable to fully and properly express your self in Greek, and here I am not talking about accent as such but about decent syntax and decent knowledge of vocabulary and meanings, then definitely they will down look at you. I have to say that the Greek Cypriot accent itself has never been a problem on whose basis the Greeks in general will down look at Cypriots, and in fact many of them do become interested in it and even excited to a large extent, and try to learn more about it.

Yes, some Athenian Greeks have a poor view of the Greek Cypriots in general, because when many peasant GCs visit Athens and go for shopping or visit restaurants, hotels, trasnportation means and theatres, they tend to move around in unnecessarily relatively large packs (groups) of people, and behave in the most peasant and spoiled of ways that they wouldn't do so even when they are in Cyprus. They are loud when they talk to each other, noisy in general, spoilt, arrogant, proud, childish, self-centered, unable to properly disipline their children, and all the rest that would characterise a culturally inferior people. I my self have many times felt ashamed to the thought that I come from the same country as them, especially if and when I was caught in public places among such people.