Re: Mother Tongue: Our dialect and our education system

http://www.cyprus-forum.com/cyprus41211-60.html#p806192

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well said Nikitas. Frankly i am surprised that GR does not agree with you, I too think that Cyprus may well do a better job at sustaining the Hellenes as a PEOPLE. 

Now the important part. The will to have an independent state is totally unconnected with our ethnnic origin or background. In the last resort we want an independent country cause etsi en i kavla mas sior! and for no other reason that we have to justify to anyone.

...especially since as a People, we are Cypriots, and as Persons living in this context there exists a Constituency demographically speaking that is by a large percentage, people who care about their being Greek. Like Hellenes around the world they need to feel connected to each other, not necessarily to Greece. In effect "Greekness" is bigger than what is defined geographically today as a Nation/State. Greeks can take pride in what Greeks do in Greece, but Greeks are more Citizens of the World, they come from its four corners, and for so long they did not even "have" a country; you don't have to be "Greek" to be Greek, (no less true in Greece but that is another story,) Greeks should not be reluctant to define themselves as such.