Why I am proud to be Greek

[phoenix]

Why I am proud to be Greek:


Because nights in Greece finish in the morning.
Because we drink our coffee slowly and not in 'gulps'.
Because flirting is our national pastime.
Because we go out almost every night, even if we are penniless.
Because we respect our Grand-mothers sometimes more than our wives.
Because we know how to 'spend' better than we know how to 'save'.
Because we never visit others empty-handed...we bring a cake or a
bottle of wine
Because we do not share the cost of gasoline with those travelling with
us.
Because the word 'filotimo' (helping someone because it is the right
thing to do) doesn't exist in any other language.
Because whenever foreigners cannot find a word, they bloody steal one
of ours!
Because we always make it, albeit at the last moment.
Because we love and hate with passion.
Because we spend our bad and low times with our friends and family;
not with therapists and counselors.
Because Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were Hellenic and we still
quote them!
Because we invented the theatre.
Because we gave birth to Democracy.
Because we jump-started science.
Because we are proud of our culture, not of our wars.
Because when we were building the Parthenon, the others were still
sleeping under trees.
Because when others created wars, we created the Olympic Games to stop
wars.
Because we don't use ketchup or mayonnaise with our food!
Because we get angry quickly, but forget about it even more quickly.
Because Greek men are not ashamed to cry.
Because we dance when we are sad and party when we are happy.
Because we work to live and we do not live to work.
Because 97% of the cosmic stars are named after Hellenics.
Because although we know danger well, we dare.
Because when you shout 'adelfe' (brother) in the streets, everyone
turns around.
Because 'Greeks do not fight like heroes; heroes fight like Greeks.'
(Winston Churchill, 1941)
Because we speak loudly and laugh even louder !
WHAT MORE IS THERE TO SAY?



No one will love you more deeply than a Greek.
Yia sas!

[really]

That was fun, Phoenix.

However, and this is not meant as a criticism but just an observation, I am rather surprised about the word "proud" that is often repeated in this forum. I don't hear it from other races in such manner. I don't mean that they may not be proud of their own races, just that they may not say it or at least so loudly. And I don't mean that it should not be said, it just sounds so unusual to me.

Originally Posted by really
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it just sounds so unusual to me.

The word "proud" seems unusual to you? Proud people are unusual? Please explain.

[really]

I don't mean that it is the proud people who are unusual but rather the fact that they mention that they are proud. Unusual in the sense that I don't hear it from other people, at least the people I know or in other forums I visit. But then I know that Greek people tend to express straightly what they think, and it is a trait that I like in them.
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[Aniet]

I am ashamed to be English if anything I would much rather be Greek and be proud of it

[really]

Being English or Greek seems to me that you are the same person inside, so why be ashamed when you are English and proud if you were Greek, that's what I don't understand I guess. Maybe it is because I tend to see myself as a citizen of the world and as a human rather than as a person of a particular race.

And what if you were born Black?

[phoenix]

Lols peoples, but thank god that there was no frigging Kombologia mentiond..

As for this quote here , " Because we spend our bad and low times with our friends and family;
not with therapists and counselors". i had mentioned it to a psychologist friend of mine& i wont forget that look he gave me,it was asif i had broken their code of silence or somthing..
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[Prokomenos]

Originally Posted by Aniet
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I am ashamed to be English if anything I would much rather be Greek and be proud of it

You should never be ashamed of who you are Aniet. Whether your English, German, Chinese you should be proud. Every nation, ethnicity has its faults. Nobody is perfect. Atleast your not a Skopian because then I would of agreed with your statement.

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[ori]

Everyone should be pround it is nice to like who who are even its because where you from
or yourself as a person.


I won't like i dont feel pround that i am greek many times i prefer to be from other places
even i born in greece grow up there
if i ever leave the place i am now and want to live in another country i will still choose another place not Greece

[gorgona]

Originally Posted by Prokomenos
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Atleast your not a Skopian

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