Phoenix wrote:
Unfortunately the term 'greek' in modern times has an almost blanket wide type of use, a one size fits all adaptability...it has become the ultimate 'brand' name and people have been trading this successfully for a very long time now...everything from the dark corners in history to coffee and fetta cheese has been 'stamped' with this logo and 'sold' to the unsuspecting consumer...
That's why modern 'greekness' is essentially available to anyone prepared to adopt it and doing so increases the value and the currency of the 'brand'...
But to the consumer...caveat emptor
Agreed. Regardless if todays "greek" was yesterdays Albanian, Vlach, Turk, Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Armenian, Jew, etc... they interchange between "greek" and "hellene" as if changing into new gashti. These pseudo terms are devious. To say one is a "hellene" may instigate that one has something to do with the ancient race of Hellenes, a people todays "greek" has absolutely nothing to do with. The other pseudo term "greek" is really devious in that anyone who speaks modern "greek" is considered a modern "greek" or that the Byzantine class of eastern Romans, aka Greeks, can now be associated with todays mongrel child of modern "greece". Like I've told modern "greeks" on here before this is like dipping your hand into any cookie jar that suits you today. They are trying to have a monopoly on history when it is they who have no right to many of the histories they claim. The brainwashing in modern "greece" has groomed pure racists and programmable drones for the modern "greek" government. To think a country that claims to be the cradle of democracy

and they are afraid to admit the obvious about their society of mongrels. Yes I know using the word 'mongrel' is harsh but if you look up its meaning it basically gives you a simple definition to what is the ethnic composition that is breathing li(f)e in modern "greece".