Why I am proud to be Greek:
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>Because we are European Champions in Football (Soccer).
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>Because we are European Champions in Basketball.
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>Because Paparizou (singer) made us Champions in the European song
>contest (Eurovision).
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>Because we Buy whole watermelons and not in slices.
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>Because we Buy whole lambs and not in pieces.
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>Because when we Buy feta, we Buy at least a kilo and not 150gr.
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>Because nights in Greece finish in the morning.
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>Because we take our coffee slowly and not in "shots".
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>Because flirting is our national hobby.
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>Because we always moan about the public sector and everyone seeks to get
>a job in it.
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>Because we go out almost every night, even if we are penniless.
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>Because we respect our Grandmothers sometimes more than our wives.
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>Because we know how to spend Better than we know how to save.
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>Because although we look like we are of Middle Eastern descent, we are
>not.
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>Because we never visit others empty-handed.
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>Because we do not share the cost of gasoline with those we take in our
>cars.
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>Because we tossed our ancient alphabet to the Romans and our medieval
>alphabet to the Slavs.
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>Because there is no way to explain to foreigners what "kapsoura"(burning
>desire for someone) or "kefi" (party mood) are.
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>Because the word "filotimo" (helping someone Because it is the right
>thing to do) doesn't exist in any other language.
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>Because whenever foreigners cannot find a word, they bloody steal one of
>ours!
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>Because we always make it, albeit in the last moment.
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>Because for the sake of a woman, we would wage war for 10 years (e.g.
>Trojan war).
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>Because we are everywhere around the planet.
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>Because we love and hate with passion.
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>Because we spend our Bad and low times with our friends and family, not
>with therapists and counselors.
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>Because Socrates, Pluto, and Aristotle were Hellenic and we still quote
>from them.
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>Because we invented theatre.
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>Because we gave Birth to Democracy.
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>Because we discovered logic.
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>Because we jump-started sci ence.
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>Because we are proud of our culture, not of our wars.
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>Because Jesus Christ's Best friends were Greeks.
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>Because Jesus Christ entrusted His Church to us, and we established it
>in glory and splendor.
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>Because when others were discovering meat, we already had cholesterol.
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>Because when we were Building the Parthenon, the others were still
>sleeping under trees.
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>Because when others created wars, we created games to stop wars.
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>Because we have a distinction Between Eros (falling in love) and Agapi
>(innocent love), while we feel both passionately.
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>Because we don't use ketchup or mayonnaise with our food: it tastes damn
>good anyway!
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>Because we get angry quickly, But forget all about it even quicker.
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>Because we are not ashamed to cry.
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>Because we dance when we are sad and pa rty when we are happy.
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>Because we work to live and we do not live to work.
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>Because 97% of the stars' names are Hellenic.
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>Because we always talk about going on a diet after we had our meal.
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>Because although we know danger well, we dare.
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>Because when you shout "aderfe" (brother) in the streets, everyone turns
>around.
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>Because "Greeks do not fight like heroes; heroes fight like
>Greeks."(Winston Churchill, 1941)
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>Because we speak loudly and laugh even louder!!!
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>WHAT MORE IS THERE TO SAY........"YA SAS!!!!!!"
