Why we are proud for being Greek!!!

Με όλα αυτά που βλέπουμε και ακούμε, σίγουρα υπάρχουν αρκετοί λόγοι που μας κάνουν να μη νιώθουμε και τόσο υπερήφανοι που είμαστε Έλληνες, αλλά παρ' όλα αυτά υπάρχουν και αρκετοί λόγοι που μας κάνουν νιώθουμε υπερήφανοι, κάποιους από αυτούς τους λόγους παραθέτω παρακάτω που τους ανακάλυψα σε ένα παλιό e-mail, τα αρνητικά και τα πράγματα που μας κάνουν να νιώθουμε ντροπή τα αφήνω στη σατιρική διάθεση του κυρίου Λαζόπουλου!

• Because we are European Champions in football (και ελπίζω να συνεχίσουμε να είμαστε...)
  
• 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 we are not puritans
• Because we are not racists
• 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 everything at the last moment.
• 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) doesn' t 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 on trees
• Because we gave the light to all these leaders who are "striving" for peace by making wars
• Because we have a distinction between Eros (falling in love) Agapi(innocent love), while we feel both passionately
• Because Eros was a Greek God
• Because when others used to be clothed with wolf skin we 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 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 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 we are direct
• 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 our sky is blue, not gray (για πόσο ακόμα δεν ξέρω)
  
• Because we have the cleanest seas on the planet (μην παίρνεις και όρκο)
  
• 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 our "model for life" has many curves
• Because we wear sandals without socks
• Because we get paid on Friday and we end up owing money by Monday morning
• Because we gave the oath "freedom or death"
• Because we have a small, poor country full of people with big hearts