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40.       Elisabeth
5732 posts
 05 Nov 2008 Wed 04:56 pm

 

Quoting cedars

 

I truely think that mediterraneans have many things in comon and they should focus more on what unites them instead of what divides them.

 

 

 I couldn´t agree more.....I have relatives in Italy (Naples and Sicily) and I have found much common ground with Turkish culture....more common than not! 

41.       Merih
933 posts
 05 Nov 2008 Wed 04:57 pm

 

Quoting TheAenigma

Thank goodness our dear classmate Sophie is not here to read what some of you think of Greeks.  Uneducated?  Hmmmmmm dont think so

 

 Well I did not say that.. like I said, most of my best friends are Greeks.. but the fact is people change according to their environment..

 

We have a saying in Turkish:

Her horoz kendi çöplüðünde öter... which means every person is more confident and powerful in their homeground.

 

By the way, I think it is quite sad that there are still people from Greeks and Turks who doesn´t like each other, blame each other or tolerate each other.

 

I think we should really enjoy the fact of sharing a great culture, cuisine, food, etc.

42.       Lady_Metal
220 posts
 05 Nov 2008 Wed 04:58 pm

 

Quoting Trudy

Since when are you telling others what to say (again) or not? What an arrogance!

 

 I meant dont tell ME it again. You are not supposed to tell anything about someone/something you dont know.

43.       Trudy
7887 posts
 05 Nov 2008 Wed 05:02 pm

 

Quoting Lady_Metal

 I meant dont tell ME it again. You are not supposed to tell anything about someone/something you dont know.

 

 Simple solution if you don´t want to read what other people write: Don´t read.

44.       TheAenigma
5001 posts
 05 Nov 2008 Wed 05:03 pm

 

 

Quoting Merih

 

By the way, I think it is quite sad that there are still people from Greeks and Turks who doesn´t like each other, blame each other or tolerate each other.

 

I think we should really enjoy the fact of sharing a great culture, cuisine, food, etc.

 

 I agree with you and frankly posts like Lady_metal´s that insult the entire population of Greece do not help.

 

Luckily we have a better perspective from a Turk (not a Brazilian) - Vineyards

 

45.       ciko
784 posts
 05 Nov 2008 Wed 05:24 pm

 

Quoting Lady_Metal

A guy who was working with work visa as electricist in your very powerful and allmight country was killed from his backs inside the metro station as a cockroach and until now nobody was punished or taken out from the police.

 

you are wrong. the head of London police department was forced to resign by boris johnson a few months ago.

46.       Lady_Metal
220 posts
 05 Nov 2008 Wed 05:36 pm

 

Quoting ciko

you are wrong. the head of London police department was forced to resign by boris johnson a few months ago.

 

 Ah really? That´s good to know that they took some providence about this case, it looks as if it would keep forgotten in the time.

 

47.       thehandsom
7403 posts
 05 Nov 2008 Wed 05:39 pm

 

Quoting Lady_Metal

 Ah really? That´s good to know that they took some providence about this case, it looks as if it would keep forgotten in the time.

 

I think the investigation is still going on..and I dont think B. Jhonson sacking Blair is anything got to do with that case..

48.       vineyards
1954 posts
 05 Nov 2008 Wed 05:45 pm

Calm down people...

What are we really discussing here?

I like Greece very much. I was there last year and looking forward to visiting the country again in the near future.

Brazil is another country I am so curious about. Hope I can see it in my life time. (which seems to be the only way actually).

I find most British people to be  very logical, informed and well-mannered. These observation leaves out the British football fans who turned the entire ground of Taksim square into a stinking, sticky, beer quagmire. (Liverpool fans as they were waiting for the final match vs AC Milan)

49.       Lady_Metal
220 posts
 05 Nov 2008 Wed 05:47 pm

 

Quoting thehandsom

I think the investigation is still going on..and I dont think B. Jhonson sacking Blair is anything got to do with that case..

 

 Actually after 3 years they are still investigating.. this story of ´ we confunded him with a terrorist´ was proved that it was a lie. They followed him since he left his house until the metro, then they started to shot againt him with the metro station full of people withou caring if some shot could reach somebody else... actually the truth is that they thought he was living illegaly in there and when they asked him to stop he got scared and ran. This is why he was murdered. Anyway even if the guys was fired and they paid a good money to the family, nothing would bring his life back

50.       TheAenigma
5001 posts
 05 Nov 2008 Wed 05:47 pm

 Dearest Vineyards,

THIS is what we are discussing....

 

 

Quoting Lady_Metal

Cypriot greeks arent like the ones who lives in Greece, at least they arent so uneducated and dont shout without any reason with their wives  and get a shout as answer from them even in the streets. Ýn Cyprus almost everybody knows english so its not a big deal to comunicate with them while in Greece, mainly in Big cities like Athens and Salonika, if you dont know any Greek, you may have a lots of problems to buy food or find your right way for example. Here even if you dont know any turkish, the native ones try their best to make you understand what they are trying to explain and also to understand you. There, men prefer get married with a woman who is rich. The tradition there is that the woman must have the house (her parents buy or build one for all of their daughters so if they get divorced they will have a place to stay, but some stupid ones pass the house in name of their husbands and after the divorce they have no place to go except their parents houses. The parents of the woman give everything for the house, even the basic stuff but the guy just get inside of it and make lots of complains about what he see

In here ( Turkey) people are fast to help foreingner without asking anything in exchange and if they can they also offer you help to learn turkish and they give you a place to stay when you have got no one and they offer you the best that they have at home, even their own beds. In Greece greeks are always self-centered and owner of the reason. Even when they are quite wrong they always wanna prove they are right, they have bad educated behaviour at table and they like to use bad words all the time and speak bad things (I meant lies) even among themselves when the person isnt close to defend him/herself. Even if they can help they never do.. they always think about their own navels before everything, they have no idea how its difficult to be a foreingner in their country if you came from miles away and have no relatives around you. They dont care about taking a exam to go to the university even knowing that all courses and uni there are public, they are always affraid of leaving their families to go to another city to study or work since their mother do everything for them and they dont know how to do anything by themselves.. they think that everybody around is guilty for the bad situations except themselves.. they treat their mothers as slaves and shout with them when they dont find any ironed t-shirt in their rooms... They complain that foreigner have jobs and they dont... if we wanna get a job there we must accept anything like washing dishes in a dirty traditional restaurant by hours getting a ridiculous salary but they dont accept this sort of job coz they think they desirve something better to spend money talking and drinking frappes for hours without doing or thinking about anything, life for them has no responsability, it should be for enjoying all the time ( like Socrates and Platon thoughts).

Most of them like spending time speaking bad things about turks and telling that one day they will organize a war to take ´Constantinopla´ back from the turks.They never mention the world ´Istanbul´. But I never saw any turk losing their time talking such stupid things against greeks in here.

I am talking those experiences I had while living for a year in Greece and compairing with my almost 6 months here in Turkey. So I mean, I am not talking about things I heard from someone or I watched in a movie, this was I experienced in my own skin and saw with my own eyes.

 

 

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