User:Sixten66

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)