"Dimitri" > wrote
> Why I am proud to be Greek
>
> Because nights in Greece finish in the morning.
> Because we drink our coffee slowly and not in 'gulps'.
> Because flirting is our national pastime.
> Because we go out almost every night, even if we are penniless.
> Because we respect our Grandmothers sometimes more than our wives.
> Because we know how to 'spend' better than we know how to 'save'.
> Because we never visit others empty-handed...we bring a cake or a bottle
> of wine
> Because we do not share the cost of gasoline with those traveling with us.
> Because the word 'filotimo' (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 always make it, albeit in the last moment.
> Because we love and hate with passion.
> Because we spend our bad and low times with our friends and family; not
> with therapists and counselors.
> Because Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were Hellenic and we still quote
> them!
> Because we invented the theatre.
> Because we gave birth to Democracy.
> Because we jump-started science.
> Because we are proud of our culture, not of our wars.
> Because when we were building the Parthenon, the others were still
> sleeping under trees.
> Because when others created wars, we created the Olympic Games to stop
> wars.
> Because we don't use ketchup or mayonnaise with our food!
> Because we get angry quickly, but forget about it even more quickly.
> Because Greek men 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 cosmic stars are named after Hellenics.
> Because although we know danger well, we dare.
> Because when you shout 'adel fi' ( brother) in the streets, everyone turns
> around.
> Because 'Greeks do not fight like heroes; heroes fight like Greeks.'
> (Winston Churchill, 1941)
> Because we speak loudly and laugh even louder!
> WHAT MORE IS THERE TO SAY? No one will love you more deeply than a
> Greek.
> Yia sas!

Love it all. Couldn't snip it. I agree with this post!!