What's your opinion for modern Greeks?
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your grammar is better than most Americans on here, don't feel bad.\n\nI have friends here in the states who are Greek and they are warm and wonderful people.  As for people living in Greece, all I have heard is that they basically attack women in the street trying to sleep with them.
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I think the Greeks- they had a plumbing system and nice temples.\n\nRome has lovely Art.\n\nEgypt were good architects.
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Throwing up on the person sitting next to you at a restaurant ... but I think that's pretty much unacceptable everywhere.\n\nI know, you were probably hoping for a serious answer, and I have never been to Greece. I find that if you watch and imitate those around you, 80-90 percent of the time, you do okay. And when you make the occasional blunder...you just say, "I'm sorry, I'm new here, and I didn't understand".\n\nAnd by the way...\n\n...I've only been in Yahoo answers for a couple of weeks now, so if vomit humor is unacceptable...
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Education & Reference - Yahoo! Answers \nAnswers is a new way to find and share information. ... The political and Social sides of the Minoans? ... inventions,and show the positive and negitive ...answers.yahoo.com/dir/index?link=list&sid=396545015&cp=4&tp=800\nGreece - From the Minoans to Alexander \nSocial and political organization. a. collection of city state monarchies. b. ... would weaken both sides, offering the possibility of invasion. IV. ...www.tnstate.edu/tcorse/h121/greece.htm
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(excelent answer by Broadcaster !)\nLet me add some information too!\nAlexander (Greek “ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ”(ALEXANDROS) is considered the greatest hero of Greece. He was called great for several reasons.\n He was the first who managed to unite all the Greek states and build a gigantic Greek Empire which expanded from Greece to India (really big!!). He was the first person who took the title “Emperor of Greece”.\nHe made his small Greek kingdom of Macedon the most powerful Greek state. \nHe never lost a battle and he is considered a military genius.\nHe spread Greek language and Greek culture through out the world paving the way to Christianity.\nHe was considered from the people of the Persian Empire as a liberator and not a conqueror. \nHe fused Greek culture with Asian Elements forming the culture that was called Hellenistic (from “Hellenic” meaning “Greek”).\n{Do not confuse the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia or Macedon with the modern state of Makedonija (or FYROM or Slav Macedonia as they are not related at all). The confusion has started a few years ago because that small state started to use the name “Republic of Macedonia” causing a great confusion with real Macedonia in Greece.}
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are you asking what kind of traditional clothes?...or what the wear on a day to day basis? Greece is part of the european union...they were pretty much what the rest of europe wears in the winter...black leather jackets...jeans...\n summer......ahh...summer...well go and see for your self....
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You wouldn't by chance be from Greece? :-)
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The "IN" civilization of its day (about 4000 B.C. it is said)! Great dances, written language, innovative societal structure... a people ahead of their time. Possibly the true founders of 'civilization'. They seem to have arrived on the scene fully developed (economically, politically, intellectually) and certainly established themselves in myth and history as the "Ancient Ones", even to those civilizations we consider ancient. Hmmmmm.... where DID they come from?
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Ohhh, I think they've had opinions for a while now. I was a very opinionated 3 year old. I remember not wanting to wear my sister's old clothes, and I recall a VERY opinionated adolescence...however, is your question really "Since when did a 15 year old's opinion count?" If so, I don't know. I know egypt had a few young rulers, but I think that was the last time anyone let a 15 year old's opinion decide ANYTHING! In my mama's house, my opinion might be considered, but did not govern a thing until I moved under my own roof. But that was several YEARS past 15...  :)
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I know Ancient Greek and it is easier to read Modern Greek than to speak it or understand it spoken.  Even reading it is difficult, however.  There has been massive grammatical restructuring of the endings on words even though the basic spelling of the root word has generally remained stable.  But there is a lot of new vocabulary to deal with and a lot of words have changed their meanings over the last 2500 years.  The differences in pronunciation are quite major, especially in the vowels.  I cannot understand spoken Modern Greek.
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Let me fill you in sweetheart!\nTouzours is really a Greek woman and her and RO35 are in love!!\nWe hope to hear wedding bells soon and everyone here is going to receive an invite!!\nI hope it's a Greek wedding because I want to smash a few plates on a few people in this forum!!\n\nI hope everything is going well with your studies.
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Greek Reconstructionism\nhttp://www.hellenion.org/\nhttp://www.sponde.com/\nhttp://www.elaion.org/\n\nThey attempt to honor Greek Gods in a way that reflects the ancient Greek cultures as accurately as possible in our modern world.  Like any other Pagan Reconstructionist, they are an excellent source for accurate information concerning the culture of the peoples who once worshiped their deities.
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Sexual customs have varied greatly over time and from one region to another. These, as well as the orientation of particular pre-contemporary figures continue to be studied. Modern Western gay culture, largely a product of 19th century psychology as well as the years of post-Stonewall Gay Liberation, is a relatively recent manifestation of same-sex desire. It is generally not applicable as a standard when investigating same-gender sex and historical opinions and beliefs held by other people.\n\nIt is generally accepted that the lives of historical figures such as Socrates, Lord Byron, Edward II, Hadrian, Julius Caesar, Michelangelo, Donatello and Christopher Marlowe included or were centred upon love and sexual relationships with people of their own gender. Terms such as gay or bisexual have been applied to them, but many regard this as risking the anachronistic introduction of a contemporary construction of sexuality foreign to their times.[citation needed] Variations from modern standards of beauty, social roles, sexual positions, and age disparities are of such magnitude so as to render meaningless any projection of modern roles onto historical personages. This does not mean, however, that people in the past experienced the physical phenomenon of homosexual attraction any differently than people experience it today.\n\nWhile some premodern societies did not employ categories fully comparable to the modern homosexual or heterosexual dichotomy, this does not demonstrate that the polarity is not applicable to those societies. A common thread of constructionist argument is that no one in antiquity or the Middle Ages experienced homosexuality as an exclusive, permanent, or defining mode of sexuality. John Boswell has criticised this argument by citing ancient Greek writings by Plato, which he says indicate knowledge of exclusive homosexuality.[citation needed]Michel Foucault and historians following his line of thought have argued that the homosexual is a modern invention, a social construct of the last 100 years.[citation needed] While true of homosexuality as a scientific or psychological category, there are examples from earlier ages of those viewing their sexuality as a part of a human identity and not merely a sexual act. [citation needed] One cited example is the 16th century Italian artist Giovanni Antonio Bazzi who adopted the nickname "Sodoma", which is viewed by Louis Crompton as something analogous to the modern gay identity.\n\n\nThe earliest western documents (in the form of literary works, art objects, as well as mythographic materials) concerning same-sex relationships are derived from Ancient Greece. They depict a world in which relationships with women and relationships with youths were the essential foundation of a normal man's love life. Same-sex relationships were a social institution variously constructed over time and from one city to another. (See Pederasty) The practice, a system of relationships between an adult male and an adolescent coming of age, was often valued for its pedagogic benefits and as a means of population control, and occasionally blamed for causing disorder. Plato praised its benefits in his early writings, but in his late works proposed its prohibition, laying out a strategy which uncannily predicts the path by which same-sex love was eventually driven underground. (See Philosophy of Greek pederasty)\n\nThe Roman emperor Theodosius decreed a law, on August 6th, 390, condemning passive homosexuals to be burned at the stake. Justinian, towards the end of his reign, expanded the proscription to the active partner as well (in 558) warning that such conduct can lead to the destruction of cities through the "wrath of God." Notwithstanding these regulations, taxes on homosexual boy brothels continued to be collected until the end of the reign of Anastasius I in 518.\n\nDuring the Renaissance, cities in northern Italy, Florence and Venice in particular, were renowned for
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"stereotype"-and your opinion
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Greek is a language...
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I think you are painting the Greek Heroes in a bit too fond of a light. While heroic, certainly, it was their belief that the only real immortality was to be remembered by those that come after you .... there was a very self centered side to it all. \n\nAll in all I would like to think a hero is a hero ... the only thing that has really changed is the things one does to become one.
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Personally, I would welcome a more multi-cultural Britain. It might shake some people out of their island mentality.\nI also think that seeing as we have a less than perfect record when it comes to the commonwealth and the empire, the least we can do is accept some responsibility and share some of our wealth and good fortune.