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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 sex is our national sport
Because we always moan about the public sector and everyone seeks to get a job in it
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 that 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 do not share the petrol with those we take in our cars
Because we always make it, albeit in the last moment
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 honor, helping someone because it is a shame not to) doesn't 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, not with shrinks
Because Socrates, Pluto and Aristotle were Greek
Because we invented theatre
Because we gave birth to Democracy
Because we discovered logic
Because we pioneered science & medicine
Because we are proud of our culture, not of our wars
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 gave the light to all these leaders who are "striving" for peace by making wars
Because we can give anything up just to make love
Because hundreds of women travel to Greece every summer just to get laid
Because we have a distinction between Eros (falling in love) & Agapi (innocent love), while we feel both passionately
Because Eros was a Greek God
Because when others used to be clothed with wolf skin we were wearing see-through linen
Because "Greeks do not fight like heroes, heroes fight like Greeks" (Winston Churchill, 1941)
Because we don't use ketchup with our food - it tastes good anyway
Because we gave our ancient alphabet to the Romans and our Medieval alphabet to the Slavs
Because we get angry quickly but we forget all about it even quicker
Because we are not ashamed to cry
Because we dance when we are sad
Because we work to live and we do not live to work
Because 97% of the stars' names are Greek
Because although we know danger well, we dare
Because when you shout "brother" in the streets everyone turns around
Because we always talk about getting in a diet after we had our meal
Because we speak loudly and laugh even louder
Because we do not know what anxiety is
Because we walk in the streets at 2:00 in the morning and there are traffic jams
Because we walk in the streets at 4:00 in the morning and there are traffic jams
Because girls are not scared to walk alone in the streets at 2:00 or 4:00 o'clock in the morning
Because we are direct
Because we never report people who cheat
Because we always have a solution to problems, even if usually indirect or illegal
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 here
Because with our (Olympic) light, we unite the world and pass the message of peace
Because our sky is blue, not grey
Because we have the cleanest seas on the planet
Because 40% of Oxford dictionary is made up with Greek words
Because we are a poor country with very rich citizens
Because we know what "Kefi" (propensity to fun) means
Because we like to spend money and eat fish while they are still fresh
Because Homer wrote Iliad 3500 years ago and Hollywood turned it into a movie just recently
Because in Greece nobody is hungry
Because in Greece nobody is homeless
Because we grow hallucigenic weed without biological engineering!!
Because our "model for life" has many curves
Because we wear sandals without socks
Because we get paid on Friday and we end up owing money by Monday morning
Because we gave the oath "freedom or death"
Because we are European Champions in football
Because we have a small, poor country full of people with big hearts

Source : http://www.macedoniaontheweb.com/forum/greek-achievements/53-why-we-proud-greek.html

writen by Alexcop
13 April 2012