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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 cheat openly, without trying to hide it * 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 we were slaves for 400 years yet never bring that up as an excuse for our current state * 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) does not 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, Plato and Aristotle were Greek * 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 when others were discovering meat, we already had cholesterol * Because when we were building the Parthenon, the others were still sleeping in 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) and Agapi (innocent love), while we feel both of them passionately * Because Eros was a Greek God * Because when others used to be clothed with wolf skin were weaving see-through linen * Because "Greeks do not fight as 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 converted all of eastern Europe into Christians * 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, although we smoke more than anyone in the world and eat the most red meat in Europe we live the longest in Europe * Because we are starting with "just a coffee" early afternoon and end up off our heads in the morning * 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 the inside of all our churches are not dark, but full of light * Because we are direct * Because we know how to cheat * 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 humor * Because the Olympic games were born here * Because, with our (Olympic) light, we unite the world and pass the message of peace * Because we live permanently in the country that foreigners dream to visit for a week * Because our sky is blue, not gray * 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 speak foreign languages - who learns Greek? * Because Tsikoudia from Crete is the strongest drink in Europe (85% alcohol) * Because we grow hallucinogenic weed without biological engineering!! * Because our "model for life" has many curves * Because we wear sandals without socks * 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 * Because, only in Greece, the guy who prepares the souvlaki asks the young lady: "What shall I put in?" And she happily replies "Please, everything!"
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