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Alot of them were not given a choice of having a legal bi-lingual nation either. http://www.bridge-mag.com/magazine/i...=163&Itemid=42
Christos Homenidis
I must tell you that whenever I find myself in conversation with Greeks who feel inordinately proud of their ‘unadulterated Greekness,’ I love making them mad by reminding them that several of the revered heroes of the 1821 Greek Revolution ― such as Markos Botsaris, Kitsos Tzavellas and Andreas Miaoulis ― were Albanian-speaking warriors. And, furthermore, that Theodoros Kolokotronis himself wished for a bilingual country, with both Greek and Albanian inhabitants. From the time the modern Greek state was founded in 1830 to today, the conflict between the concepts of an open-minded, extrovert, cosmopolitan Greece and a small yet honorable, racially and religiously ‘clean and proper’ Greece has never ceased. It goes without saying that I side with the former and not with the latter, and that any kind of multiculturalism fascinates me.
Christos Homenidis
I must tell you that whenever I find myself in conversation with Greeks who feel inordinately proud of their ‘unadulterated Greekness,’ I love making them mad by reminding them that several of the revered heroes of the 1821 Greek Revolution ― such as Markos Botsaris, Kitsos Tzavellas and Andreas Miaoulis ― were Albanian-speaking warriors. And, furthermore, that Theodoros Kolokotronis himself wished for a bilingual country, with both Greek and Albanian inhabitants. From the time the modern Greek state was founded in 1830 to today, the conflict between the concepts of an open-minded, extrovert, cosmopolitan Greece and a small yet honorable, racially and religiously ‘clean and proper’ Greece has never ceased. It goes without saying that I side with the former and not with the latter, and that any kind of multiculturalism fascinates me.
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