Proud to be Greek!

[aZu]

* Because we are European Champions in Football
* Because we are European Champions in Basketball
* Because Paparizou made us Champions in the European song contest (Eurovision)
* Because we are world champions in sex
* 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 150gr.
* 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 go out almost every night even if we have no money
* Because we know how to spend better than we know how to save
* Because we never visit others empty-handed
* Because we don't ask for petty cash when cruising with mates
* Because we tossed our ancient alphabet to the Romans and our medieval alphabet to the Slavs
* Because there is no way to explain to foreigners what "kapsoura" or "kefi" are...
(burning desire for someone and party mood)
* 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, even in the last moment
* Because we are everywhere around the world
* Because we love and hate with passion
* Because we spend our bad and worst times with our friends and family, not with therapists and counsellors
* Because Socrates, Pluto, and Aristotle were Hellenic and we still quote from them
* Because we invented theatre
* 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 Jesus Christ's best friends were Greeks
* 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 don't use ketchup or mayonnaise with our food - it tastes damn good anyway!
* 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 although we know danger well, we dare
* Because when you shout "aderfe" (brother) in the streets, everyone turns around
* Because "Greeks do not fight like heroes, heroes fight like Greeks”
* Because we speak loudly and laugh even louder!!!

[MIKE]