Why am I proud to be Greek?

• Because we buy whole watermelons and not in slices

• Because we buy whole lambs and not in pieces

• Because when we buy feta we buy at least a kilo and not 150 gr.

• Because nights in Greece finish in the morning

• Because we take our coffee slowly and not in 'shots"

• Because flirting is our national hobby

• Because we are world champions in sex

• Because we always moan about the public sector and everyone seeks to get a job in it

• Because we go out almost every night even if we are penniless

• Because we respect our Grandmothers more than our wives

• Because we know how to spend better than we know how to save

• Because although we look like we are of Middle Eastern descent we are

not

• Because we never visit others empty-handed

• Because there is no way to explain to foreigners what "kapsoοra" is.

(burning desire for someone)

• Because we do not share the cost of 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 would wage war for 10 years (Trojan

war)

• Because we are everywhere around the planet

• Because we love and hate with passion

• Because the word "filotimo" (a synonym of honor, helping someone

because it is the right thing to do) doesn't exist in any other language

• Because whenever foreigners cannot find a word, they bloody steal one

of ours

• Because we spend our bad and low times with our friends and family, not

with therapists and counselors

• Because Socrates, Pluto, and Aristotle were Hellenic and we still quote

from them

• Because we gave birth to Democracy

• Because we discovered logic

• Because we jumpstarted science

• 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 under trees

• Because when others created wars, we created Games to stop wars

• Because we have a distinction between Eros (falling in love) & Agapi

(innocent love), while we feel both passionately

• Because we don't use ketchup or mayonnaise with our food it tastes damn

good anyway!

• Because we tossed our ancient alphabet to the Romans and our medieval

alphabet to the slavs

• Because we get angry quickly but forget all about it even quicker

• Because we are not ashamed to cry

• Because we dance when we are sad and party when we are happy

• Because we work to live and we do not live to work

• Because 97% of the stars' names are Hellenic

• Because we always talk about getting in a diet after we had our meal

• Because a woman with a big arse is just as sexy as the woman with the

small one

• Because when you shout "brother" in the streets, everyone turns around

• Because "Greeks do not fight like heroes, heroes fight like Greeks"

(Winston Churchill, 1941)