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[CopperLine]

No other race can endure 4 centuries of foreign occupation and oppression whilst still maintaining their self identity.

Yeah right, apart from Irish, Welsh, Scots, Basques, Catalans, Sicilians, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Albanians, Poles, Hungarians, Armenians, Turks, Greeks, Maronites, Jews, Persians, Circassians, Uighars, Ashanti, Burundians, ...... and on and on and on

[Sophia1]

Oh Sorry T-C

[T_C]

Correct me if I'm wrong Oracle but did you not also leave your natural homeland at some point?

[T_C]

No worries Sophia.

[Sophia1]

Thank you copperline but The G.C's gained independency in 1960 so the other nationalities dnt mean Jack...

[Oracle]

Correct me if I'm wrong Oracle but did you not also leave your natural homeland at some point?

Not as an invader to kill and steal. I am not talking about migrations and co-operation between people. Bilateral trade of skills.

What the Ottoman-Turks did en masse was to usurp others and replace them with their own kinds. As they continue to do to this very day by unlawfully colonising Cyprus with settlers after segregating the indigenous population of Cypriots from the north.

[T_C]

Sorry but if the Greeks got their alphabet from the ancient Cypriots, then who knows what else they managed to steal and take credit for?8)

[Sophia1]

Wow Oracle you do learn new things every day, you sure u aint a teacher? well u should be hun..

[Get Real!]

Paphitis said

Some individuals however do undermine the Cypriot Strenght of character by adopting a defeatist ethos or from rejecting the islands Hellenism just to appease the Turks, or because they have some chip on their shoulder and blame Greece for our predicament.

This is so true, most Cypriots are smart enough to want to keep their Hellenic identity, this is who we are and we are proud to be Greeks. There are a few Cypriots however that do have this chip on their shoulder unfortunately...typically they have no idea about history..... We did want enosis with Greece but these days due to circumstances we have become content with Independence within the EU. The only chance for peace is for respect by both communities of the other's identity and not this stupid belief in a common Cypriot ethnicity...this is nonsense....One should respect differences..., this is the key...

The “Hellenic identity” bollocks is a very recent notion in the history of Cyprus, first officially adopted in 1922 when the “National Assembly” or “National Organization” was formed with its first president being the Archbishop of Cyprus Kyrillos III (1916...1933).

The National Assembly called for union with Greece and disobedience towards the British out of sheer frustration from foreign occupations and their inability to counter them, but certainly not because of some “natural Hellenic drive”!

The people of Cyprus were desperate to associate themselves with someone “friendlier” in a desperate attempt to put an end to the British rule and deter any future attacks. Problem is, (and as it turned out disastrous) the country they chose to associate themselves with was in even more tatters and hardly someone to look up to and expect protection from, but such was the “wisdom” at the time!

[Piratis]

Sorry but if the Greeks got their alphabet from the ancient Cypriots, then who knows what else they managed to steal and take credit for?8)

And of course you are using the term Cypriots to mean what we all mean (Greek Cypriots).

A classics and linguistics scholar has found a bridge between the pre-alphabetic scripts of the ancient Greeks of Cyprus and the Greek alphabet -- and argues that the Mediterranean island is therefore most likely the place where the Greek alphabet was invented.

It has been well documented that the Greeks adapted the familiar script still used today from the alphabet of another people -- the Phoenicians. But "one foot also rests on a shoulder of the syllabic script of Cypriot Greeks

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/ ... 151297.php

So the Greek Cypriots have invented the Greek Alphabet, another proof that the Greeks of Cyprus are not any less important or any less Greeks than the Greeks of Athens or of any other Greek area.

Now T_C I think it is time to stop hating everything Greek, read the history of Cyprus and understand how much Greek indeed Cyprus has been for 1000s of years, and appreciate the history of your own island.