Do you consider Cypriots to be European?

[Rron]

-It doesn't work like that, there is no "more" or "less" European. A dark, hairy Greek is just as European as a platinum blonde, paper skinned Swede.

So you are in contradicts with yourself in one hand for you there is no more or less European while afterwards you say Albanians and Bosnians are ''less''.

[Odoacer]

It's a combination of many factors- the way we talk, act, think, etc. that ultimately separates colonials from Europeans. Though Europeans are far from monolithic in terms of culture themselves, there still seems to be a subtle but still present link that we share that is absent in Colonials. I suppose it would come from thousands of years of shared history. Even countries on other ends of the continent like Britain and Russia have historically had dealings with each other.

My country's entire history has been intertwined with that of Europe. The religious, political, cultural, & genetic heritage of white Americans is from Europe. I think you're prejudicially minimizing differences within Europe to exclude colonials.

Be that as it may, this probably isn't the thread to go much further into whether colonials are "European," so I'm going to leave it at that.

[Hess]

So you are in contradicts with yourself in one hand for you there is no more or less European while afterwards you say Albanians and Bosnians are ''less''.

no, I am not saying Muslims Albanians and Bosniaks are "less". I am saying they are not European at all.

But like i said, there are hundreds of appropriate threads where you can talk about how European you are to your heart's content, such as this

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35820

[Hurrem sultana]

no, I am not saying Muslims Albanians and Bosniaks are "less". I am saying they are not European at all.

Bosniaks call themselves just Bosnian...you dont hear "bosniak" on the street

[Padre Organtino]

i consider them to be what they are.... Greeks.

They are actually not that much alike each other.

[Absinthe]

They are actually not that much alike each other.

We aren't alike in many ways.

[Flintlocke]

We aren't alike in many ways.

True, they are richer

[Absinthe]

True, they are richer

That is among the differences, yes.

My dad has been doing business in Cyprus for the last few years.

One thing he's told me, among other things, is that visiting Cyprus is like time travelling to Greece in the early 90s or so.

You know, that false sense of prosperity and plenitude, big spending and wealth flaunting, hard partying and all that jazz...
And also the naivite of thinking that belonging to the Western block ensures your safety and well being and protects you from the enemies.
Just a big LOL there.

[Treffie]

no, I am not saying Muslims Albanians and Bosniaks are "less". I am saying they are not European at all.

it's funny how religion can suddenly make Europeans non-European. Bosniaks are Islamified Europeans.

[Daniele90]

Culturally they're Europeans, but Turkish Cypriots are not; that's enough for me to tell they are Europeans..