User:Sixten66
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Reasons I'm proud to be Greek (just some of them):
- Because whenever foreigners cannot find a word, they steal one of ours (i.e. 'politics' or 'encyclopedia' as seen on the upper left of your monitor) - (oh, I just noticed on the main page of Wikipedia - 'pedia' is a greek word also - the words 'biography', 'geography', 'history', 'mathematics', technology', 'portals', 'categories' - I'm sure I'll find many more if I continue reading)
- Because Socrates, Plato, 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 when others were discovering meat, we already had cholesterol
- Because when we were building the Parthenon, the others were still sleeping under trees or in caves
- Because when others created wars, we created Games to stop wars
- Because we tossed our ancient alphabet to the Romans and our medieval alphabet to the Slavs
- Because 97% of the stars' names are Hellenic
- Because although we know danger well, we dare
- Because "Greeks do not fight like heroes, heroes fight like Greeks" (Winston Churchill, 1941)
