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Because we buy whole watermelons and not in slices .
Because we buy whole lambs and not in pieces .
Because nights in Greece finish in the morning .
Because we take our coffee slowly, while smoking and not in “shots”.
Because flirting is our national hobby.
Because we are not puritans.
Because we are not racists .
Because we go out almost every night even if we are penniless.
Because we know how to spend better than we know how to save.
Because we never visit others empty handed.
Because there is no way to explain to foreigners what is “kapsoura” (burning desire for someone) .
Because in Greece family is still something valuable.
Because we always make it,albeit in the last moment .
Because we were slaves for 400 years yet never bring that up as an excuse for our current state.
Because for the sake of a woman we made war for 10 years (Trojan war)
Because we are everywhere around the planet.
Because we love and hate with passion .
Because “filotimo” (friend of honour, helping someone because it is a shame not to) does not exist in any other language .
Because whenever foreigners cannot find a word, they use one of ours.
Because we spend our bad and low times with our friends and family and keep shrinks out of business.
Because Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were Greek whose philosophies the western thought is based.
Because we invented theatre.

Because we gave birth to Democracy.

Because we discovered logic.
Because we jumpstarted science.
Because we are proud of our culture.
Because when others were discovering meat, we already had cholesterol
Because when we were building the Parthenon, the others were still sleeping on trees.
Because we can give anything up, just to make love .
Because Eros was a Greek God.

Because “Greeks do not fight as heroes, heroes fight like Greeks” (Winston Churchill, 1941) . ).

Because we gave our ancient alphabet to the Romans and our Medieval alphabet to the Slavs.
Because the Greeks were the first to leave their language traits in India and not the other way around.
Because we share our knowledge throughout the world
Because we want the world to benefit and unite.
Because we do not mutate and alter history and hope no one notices.
Because we get angry quickly but we forget all about it even quicker .
Because we are not ashamed to cry.
Because we dance even when we are sad. .
Because we speak loudly and laugh even louder .
Because although we smoke more than anyone in the world and eat the most red meat in Europe we live the longest in the world after Japan.
Because we are starting with “just a coffee” early afternoon and end up off our heads in the morning .
Because the inside of all our churches are not dark, but full of light
Because we have tendencies to extremity.
Because our parents do not forget that we exist when we reach 18.
Because when we want to sunbathe, we go to the beach, we don’t crawl on grass or jump into fountains .
Because we confront every difficulty with humour.
Because the Olympic games were born in Greece.
Because 40% of Oxford dictionary is made up with Greek words.
Because we know what “Kefi” (propensity to fun) means.
Because we like to spend money and eat fish while it is still fresh.
Because in Greece nobody is hungry.
Because in Greece nobody is homeless.
Because Tsikoudia from Crete is the strongest drink in Europe (85% alcohol).
Because we wear sandals without socks .
Because we get paid on Friday and we end up owing money by Monday morning
Because God did not chose us as His favourite people, but but we chose our Gods.
Because whe saved Europe many times from the invasion of the East.
Because Hollywood uses our heros to make their blockbusters.