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[Sophia1]

Sorry.. Maybe coz I miss them so much and there the ppl that made me proud to be Cypriot. They were also forced from there homes and ended up in Victoria Stn. My uncle told me that he cryed for 2 months then he gained some guts and went back home and thought f**** it what ever happens to me happens at least I will die in my own country. He went back to Cy and ended up as a superintendent in the Police force, got too ill to carry on with that and became a School headmaster. Now that is who I look up to..

[Paphitis]

All is entitled to there own opnion so go back to bed

You are entitled to your own opinion. Do not let anyone discourage you from having and expressing it any way you wish.

You too had an "opinion"...

That is something that is common amongst all Hellenes.

Our inner strenght and earthyness.

...but it turns out it wasn't worth 2 cents!

I see this amongst many Cypriots of today, yourself included.

[Oracle]

Some GCs get their SECURITY from their Hellenism. It's obvious being just a Cypriot isn't enough for some....

It's almost as if they don't feel worthy of anything without being associated with Greece.

This is peasant mentality which ALOT of Cypriots are cursed with IMO. The need to belong somewhere...as if Cyprus simply isn't enough. There has to be more.

Like orphans trying to find their mothers....

How dare you show your mocking face in here you filthy Turk!

The only thing the Cypriots are cursed with is YOU!

[T_C]

Yes I know....the truth hurts...

[denizaksulu]

There was a time when Cyprus was undeniably pure Greek!

Bollocks

GR!..... the MOST Greek amongst us!

The abbreviated format of my alias is indeed most unfortunate…

Less about your alias and more about your spirit GR!

You encapsulate the Greekness that allowed Mavromichali, Kolokotrini etc to say enough of the Turkish enslavement and rise up in revolt!

That is what is missing in Cypriots today. Greek pride, arrogance .... to object!

The Greeks said "OXI" to the Italians, we said "OXI" to the Annan Plan ... but the similarity has ended there!

What did the Cypriots do in 1821 when the Greeks were revolting against the Ottomans? What went wrong and we remained enslaved?

Bring back Greek Fire!

Dont worry Oracle. The Greeks are always 'revolting'. Bless them

[Sophia1]

T-C Thats sooo not true, G.C's are so different to the Greeks in Greece, but then again you dnt know either cultures very well. Its like us talking about the Turks, that we thought that you lot changed and we can put the past behind us but that was not so true when we tried to reopen Ledra Street, how dumb and very embarrassing of the Turks and you have the cheek to call us Peasants?? I think you better have a word with your own ppl and stop chatting rubbish mate..

[Nikitas]

Copperline wrote:

"There has been continuous mutation and metamorphosis which makes it (i) impossible to speak of an undifferentiated and singular 'we' over the centuries and (ii) and therefore makes a nonsense of claims by certain posters that they/we have been here longer than anyone else."

But why not? If you feel part of the Greek Orthodox tradition of Cyprus then you identify with a traditin stretching back to the Roman times as a religion and longer than that if you analyse extrareligious factors. I am not talking genetics here, but a cultural tradition and in that context you can be part of something which has existed for centuries, therefore one can talk about a collective "we".

Not being religious (and not appreciating the aesthetics bequeahted to us by the Byzantines) I still see the continuum every time I attend a christening or a funeral and recognise its role in our cultural cohesion over time. Whether this is a good or bad thing is not clear. What is undeniable is that it must have been a vital tradition to keep its hold on a community even through times when it was advantageous to leave it and join the "foreign" and superior forces on the island. Taking the Christian overlords as an example, it should have been a simple matter for GCs to convert en mass to catholicism, which was a lot less foreign than Islam, yet they did not. They went as far as to catholicise some icons to appease the foreign masters but did not abandon orthodoxy.

[Get Real!]

Some GCs get their SECURITY from their Hellenism. It's obvious being just a Cypriot isn't enough for some....

It's almost as if they don't feel worthy of anything without being associated with Greece.

This is peasant mentality which ALOT of Cypriots are cursed with IMO. The need to belong somewhere...as if Cyprus simply isn't enough. There has to be more.

Like orphans trying to find their mothers....

10/10 Well done!

[Get Real!]

Sorry.. Maybe coz I miss them so much and there the ppl that made me proud to be Cypriot. They were also forced from there homes and ended up in Victoria Stn. My uncle told me that he cryed for 2 months then he gained some guts and went back home and thought f**** it what ever happens to me happens at least I will die in my own country. He went back to Cy and ended up as a superintendent in the Police force, got too ill to carry on with that and became a School headmaster. Now that is who I look up to..

I hate your uncle... actually I hate all your relatives!

[Sophia1]

Ahhhh I think we better swop flags lol