"Typical Greek" Truth or myth?
"Typical Greek" Truth or myth?
Is it true? Does the Greek spend the whole day in a Kafeneion (traditional coffee shop) and philosophize for hours about life? Of course, it is true… and false! For instance, the Kafeneion is still very much alive for the older gentlemen of Greece (the "Papous") especially in the villages and islands of the country.
Greeks prescribed the ideology of "working to live" instead of "living to work". Nowadays, the implementation of technology and telecommunications has somewhat skewed this view. Yet, during the summer months, we see the deeply ingrained instinct of the "Hellinas" to get to the beaches and islands and generally out of the city, as soon and as much as humanly possible. Think of it as something like the seasonal swimming of salmon upstream to procreate. Then you might begin to understand the physical and emotional urge that lays beneath the skin of every Greek on a cellular level.
