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[Get Real!]

Cyprus is not different than any other Greek island.

That's right, Greece is no different to any other British island.

I see you are having some severe hungover from the pub you went last night

You will find irrefutable evidence of my claim right next to the irrefutable evidence of Piratis' claims.

[Get Real!]

If our ancestors were not Greek then they wouldn't speak Greek. They would speak some other language.

And what if I were to modify the language label from "Greek" to "Pakistani"?

Would you then become Kenyan?

You can change the label any way you want. It would still be the same language that we speak in Cyprus, Crete and Athens and not one that they speak in Kenya

All the weight of your theories is in labels…

ie: If it says “Marks & Spencer” it must be British!

[Get Real!]

Sotos, please inform the following countries that as of today they are all Spanish and that they can forget about other labels!

List of countries where Spanish is an official language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... l_language

Also, please inform these countries that henceforth they are officially Portuguese!

Brazil
Mozambique
Angola
Guinea-Bissau
East Timor
Macau
Cape Verde
Sao Tome and Principe

[Get Real!]

Where has the label man gone?

[Sotos]

Sotos, please inform the following countries that as of today they are all Spanish and that they can forget about other labels!

List of countries where Spanish is an official language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... l_language

Also, please inform these countries that henceforth they are officially Portuguese!

Brazil
Mozambique
Angola
Guinea-Bissau
East Timor
Macau
Cape Verde
Sao Tome and Principe

Did the ancestors of the people in those countries speak Spanish for 1000s of years as we speak Greek in Cyprus? No

[wyoming cowboy]

to the anti Greek Greeks,when Greece gets its act together these bozos will be the first to call themselves Greek. wherever there is food or the winning side they flock to like monkeys looking for bananas. GR,Paphitis and all the rest of them....nothing but monkeys looking for a banana.

[supporttheunderdog]

Sotos, please inform the following countries that as of today they are all Spanish and that they can forget about other labels!

List of countries where Spanish is an official language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... l_language

Also, please inform these countries that henceforth they are officially Portuguese!

Brazil
Mozambique
Angola
Guinea-Bissau
East Timor
Macau
Cape Verde
Sao Tome and Principe

Did the ancestors of the people in those countries speak Spanish for 1000s of years as we speak Greek in Cyprus? No

so ancient wrongs committed by Greeks are acceptable? there were indpendant political structures in Cyprus, city states, and these were semingly taken over so it was not case of Ancient Greeks finding an empty land and moving in - what they did in about 1150BC was arguably just as eve as what for example the Spanish did in South America from 1492 onwards, the British and French in North America, Africa, and Asia, the Dutch in Asia, the Belgians and Germans in Africa, etc. etc. etc, etc etc.

[Piratis]

Sotos, please inform the following countries that as of today they are all Spanish and that they can forget about other labels!

List of countries where Spanish is an official language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... l_language

Also, please inform these countries that henceforth they are officially Portuguese!

Brazil
Mozambique
Angola
Guinea-Bissau
East Timor
Macau
Cape Verde
Sao Tome and Principe

Did the ancestors of the people in those countries speak Spanish for 1000s of years as we speak Greek in Cyprus? No

so ancient wrongs committed by Greeks are acceptable? there were indpendant political structures in Cyprus, city states, and these were semingly taken over so it was not case of Ancient Greeks finding an empty land and moving in - what they did in about 1150BC was arguably just as eve as what for example the Spanish did in South America from 1492 onwards, the British and French in North America, Africa, and Asia, the Dutch in Asia, the Belgians and Germans in Africa, etc. etc. etc, etc etc.

You forgot to say what the Anglo-Saxons did to Britain in 500AD, why did you leave that out? If you say that Greeks are foreign to Cyprus even though we have been inhabiting this island for 3000+ years, then what about the English in Britain, who have less than half the history that we have here?

In 1150BC Cyprus was not empty, but most of it was indeed uninhabited and Greeks did create their new city states on uninhabited land. The world population in 1150AD was 150 times less than it is today. That means in Cyprus the population would not have been more than 6000-7000 people. We are talking about a few small villages in a mostly uninhabited island.

On the other hand, when the Anglo-Saxons went to Britain 1500 years after Greeks came to Cyprus, the world population was several times more, and Britain was already inhabited by several other people who indeed had very sophisticated political structures, Celts, Romans and various other tribes (but even the Celts didn't go to Britain as early as Greeks came to Cyprus).

If Greeks with their 3000+ year history in Cyprus are foreign to this island, then what about the English who have less than half of that history in Britain? What about the Turks who have a 1/6th of that history in Asia Minor?

So you first have to say that Turks are foreign to Asia Minor, then you have to say that English are foreign to Britain, then you have to say that most people are foreign in their native countries and THEN you can come to say that Greeks, with our 3000+ years of history on this island, are foreign to Cyprus. Greeks are 1500 years more native to Cyprus than the English are to Britain. Get this FACT into your head and stop trying to tell us what we are.

[Viewpoint]

So your saying you have more right to Cyprus than the Anglo Saxons have to Britain? and that we have no rights at all?

[Get Real!]

Did the ancestors of the people in those countries speak Spanish for 1000s of years as we speak Greek in Cyprus? No

Did they? Where did you get that from Sotos and whatever happened to the Cypriot language?