Re: This Greek/Turkish Thing

choro-nik wrote:
> It hurts me to be accused of being anti-Hellenic. In fact I am neither
> anti-Hellenic nor anti any other people. How could I be anti-Hellenic if
a
> chap that warms the cockles of my heart when I meet him at the
supermarket
> where he works and which I visit several times a week happens to be a
Greek
> Cypriot? When we meet we exchange greetings and smiles, we exchange
jokes.
> In him I see another fellow Cypriot with whom I know I share the same
joys
> in life. I am sure we both enjoy the same dishes, with who I share the
same
> sense of humor etc etc. So how can I be an anti-Hellenic if I feel such
joy
> at meeting a fellow Greek Cypriot?
>
> You know several years ago I met another Greek Cypriot who realizing I
was
> from Cyprus asked me where I came from. And when I told him my place of
> birth and gave him my name, he said that he knew my father. "Eitane
kalos
> anthropos o pateras sou," he told me. "Mas evoithisen polla". (He was a
good
> man, your father. He helped us a lot") And I asked him his name and we
had a
> good chat together.
>
> You see this is what happens when ordinary Greek and Turkish Cypriots
meet.
> Unfortunately this definitely  does not apply to inter-communal
relations
> and I can also tell you that not all Cypriots are like that. A few
> extremists spoil it for everybody. It only takes a few bad apples to
spoil a
> whole basket of perfectly good apples.
>
> Take gogu for example. I feel that at heart he is not such a bad fellow
but
> unfortunately he has got this psychological condition and is moreover of
the
> opinion that he can improve his image as a Greek by adopting an
anti-Turkish
> stance especially in view of the fact that he has got Romanian
connections.
> He claims to come from a wealthy family and brags about his wife owning
a
> business, which to me sounds more like a sweatshop, in Rumania. I am
> beginning to feel that he is just a social misfit who is trying to
'prove'
> himself by adopting a nationalistic anti-Turkish stance. Who is he
trying to
> prove himself to? His poor suffering wife who he has admitted to
cheating,
> bragging about his girl-friend on the Usenet? Now, tell me what sane man
> would brag about having a an affair outside his marriage on the Usenet
of
> all places? What man who claims he has no less that two, yes two Ph.Ds
in
> architecture would waste his time on the Usenet posting scores of
messages
> each and every day?


In a nutshell.......

A SICK "WALTER MITTY" FANTASIST