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.
glenallen321
May 29, 2010 at 10:46 am
Never heard that
Glock Schnitz
May 29, 2010 at 11:44 am
Well, Holy Sheepsh*t, Batman!! Who needs a God when we have Greeks?
Bud
May 29, 2010 at 12:06 pm
And no Greek would become a suicide bomber.
DAR
May 29, 2010 at 12:33 pm
Nice list.
Your islands are beautiful, too.
Barking Bear
May 29, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Because they are so good at computers and math.But they aren’t very athletic and girls aren’t attracted to them.I don’t think the movie revenge of the nerds helped.
ii. rep. ][ afg ] [ اُمید ]
May 29, 2010 at 12:54 pm
You guys invented gay sex.
Your girls are hairy.
You guys are tight with money.
You need to get over your Euro 2004 win it is almost 2009.
christmas angels
May 29, 2010 at 1:38 pm
That’s your opinion, the ones i know cheat on their wife’s
and the wife’s are to dumb or naive to know.
Mein Herz /Rot Weiß /Schwarz
May 29, 2010 at 1:59 pm
…you’re gonna fall off your soap box carrying that load..
Nick R
May 29, 2010 at 2:58 pm
copy and paste
Old Cowboy
May 29, 2010 at 3:14 pm
because they like it up the bumhole?
tabbi8407
May 29, 2010 at 3:43 pm
good list, if only your teens wouldn’t have set fire to Athens recently…… all over ONE teen being shot by police…..
richer_than_you1971
May 29, 2010 at 4:20 pm
if believing that helps you sleep better at night then be my guest
Sara H.
May 29, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Um…thanks for enlightening us?
You should have just handed out fliers if it was that important to you to share this information.
Oh, and thank you for letting us know. Except, if you are the representation of said “best people in the world”, then they are conceited and stereotypical of other people. Maybe they aren’t so great after all.
Bushrod Isbister
May 29, 2010 at 5:41 pm
Because of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were Greek whose philosophies the western thought is based.
Because we invented theatre.
Because 40% of Oxford dictionary is made up with Greek words.
Because we gave birth to Democracy.
For these reasons………..
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May 29, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Learn how to spell, Plato LOL
justme
May 29, 2010 at 6:29 pm
It’s great to be proud of who you are
tweetybird37406
May 29, 2010 at 6:49 pm
you sound like the father from “My big fat Greek wedding”.
Tristan S
May 29, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Hm, I’m sure that all those kids rioting agree with you…
Chrispy Flakes
May 29, 2010 at 8:23 pm
ummm. Greeks are actually pretty arrogant people….case in point
labia69
May 29, 2010 at 8:54 pm
Greece is not multicultural. (that’s not good)
Greece has the tenth (not in the top 5) longest coastline in the world with 14,880 km (9,246 mi); its land boundary is 1,160 km (721 mi).
Four fifths of Greece consist of mountains or hills (that’s a lot of nothing)
The tourism industry is a major source of foreign exchange earnings and revenue accounting for 15% of Greece’s total GDP[30] and employing ,directly or indirectly, 16.5% of the total workforce. (without tourism Greece would be in trouble)
Norman O
May 29, 2010 at 9:15 pm
You chose your own gods? So did every other religion!
INDRED COLD RETURNS
May 29, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Your opinion & I’m afraid it’s yours only.