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[Dhavlos]

tis is an interesting document i found, with a poinient paragraph on the situation now: What the author says is true...we need to let go from the respective motherlands, and embrace the cypriotness that makes us common!

Quote: It is a fact that the Greek Cypriots or the Turkish Cypriots are culturally ı-under the influence of Greece and Turkey respectively. But the crystallization of the Cypriot identity and the formation of our political togetherness can only be possible by conscious resistance to the assimilating influences of these both external cultures and by disseminating and developing our local cultural characteristics of Cyprus. Without forgetting that the identity problem is in the first and final analysis a problem of culture, we have to read, research and digest well our own cultural history with its all aspects, secret and protected, official and unofficial. Otherwise, it is inevitable to get into crisis and search for identity, because of ignorance or lacking knowledge.

http://www.yenikibris.org/kitap/a_an/identity.htm

[The Cypriot]

Dhavlos wrote: tis is an interesting document i found, with a poinient paragraph on the situation now: What the author says is true...we need to let go from the respective motherlands, and embrace the cypriotness that makes us common!

Quote: It is a fact that the Greek Cypriots or the Turkish Cypriots are culturally ?-under the influence of Greece and Turkey respectively. But the crystallization of the Cypriot identity and the formation of our political togetherness can only be possible by conscious resistance to the assimilating influences of these both external cultures and by disseminating and developing our local cultural characteristics of Cyprus. Without forgetting that the identity problem is in the first and final analysis a problem of culture, we have to read, research and digest well our own cultural history with its all aspects, secret and protected, official and unofficial. Otherwise, it is inevitable to get into crisis and search for identity, because of ignorance or lacking knowledge.

http://www.yenikibris.org/kitap/a_an/identity.htm

Bravo Davlo mu for posting this. I couldn't have put it better myself.

disseminating and developing our local cultural characteristics of Cyprus

There's so much work to do...

[repulsewarrior]

Cypriotculture is "mixed villages", the free exchange of our expressions, harmony in a lifestyle based on cooperation, and a sense of inclusiveness in our character.