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[Cap]

Dunno, there doesn't seem to be any strong pull to the Arab states and Islam.

No shit! We're neither Arabs nor Muslims so why should there be a "pull"?

But this is our region and we’re used to them being next door to us, so we don’t have Arab-phobia or Islamo-phobia.

They’re in their part of the ME and we’re in ours.

I agree.
Mustie seems a little delusional though.

This is my best attempt at 'tact' I could think of.
I'm useless at it.

[Get Real!]

Having said that, I feel much more at home sitting at a cafeteria overlooking the Med in Beirut than at a place like Amsterdam.

[repulsewarrior]

Just because you dress like Europeans it don't mean you are European . Go and wear the outfits Arabs wear and see that you won't look any different . Get one of your women to wear a hijab and see you won't look any different .

...dress an Italian up, what do you get?

"Turks" are unchanging while Cypriots (read: "Greek") don't know who they are; what is your point?

Fact is, Cyprus is more Greek than "Greek" (anywhere, (except perhaps Crete and Rhodes)), like the Turcophones of Cyprus, who would be by nature more Turkish than any "Turk" in Turkey, simply because it is an island, isolated, and ignored, until the Modern Age allowed for an ease in mobility, uninfluenced by the Continents and their change, culturally, and politically, closer to the root, so to speak. we may be culturally apart, in Cyprus, but in the hundreds of years Turks and Greeks have lived together here, and for the thousands of years before, Cypriots socialised, unlike the very "Turkish" idea of excluding from their lives anything not "Turkish" enough, Cypriots were (and are) great Cooperators by nature (if given a chance).

...i suggest that it is natural to feel that in a Free Cyprus, what with being a crossroad for three Continents, it is not so "pure". again, the word Occidental comes to mind, but (afterall, i come from a "mixed" village,) i am of the camp that says, Cypriots are not Europeans, Europeans are Cypriots.

[Cap]

Cypriots are not Europeans, Europeans are Cypriots.

Nailed it.

[kurupetos]

Having said that, I feel much more at home sitting at a cafeteria overlooking the Med in Beirut than at a place like Amsterdam.

That's because you are a Maronite.

[kurupetos]

Cypriots are not Europeans, Europeans are Cypriots.

Nailed it.

WTF?

[Paphitis]

Cyprus’ ancient relationships with other peoples in the region according to Greeks:

Legend:
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1. Red Arrows = Strictly forbidden routes!

2. Blue Arrows = Preferred and acceptable routes!

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So please ignore the fact that Cyprus is in the Middle East…they never had anything to do with those ragheads!

Are the red Arrows coming to Cyprus again!

Will there be enough Apron Space at Akrotiri for them once all the F-18Fs arrive?

There might be some overflow into Paphos now.

[Paphitis]

Having said that, I feel much more at home sitting at a cafeteria overlooking the Med in Beirut than at a place like Amsterdam.

What? I thought you would be right at home eating some Cannabis Cake in Amsterdam.

Cypriots do like drugs don't they? you would probably get beheaded for that in Beirut!

[Paphitis]

Cypriots are not Europeans, Europeans are Cypriots.

Nailed it.

WTF?

Cap is too young and needs some guidance and protection so that his mind is not corrupted by some undesirables.

[Cap]

Cypriots are not Europeans, Europeans are Cypriots.

Nailed it.

WTF?

Cap is too young and needs some guidance and protection so that his mind is not corrupted by some undesirables.

My fault.
I sometimes forget the or the at the end of a statement.