Is it racism to speak my language in my own homeland?

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a 7212 ShakingBy Stavros I. Charalambous

Here we are, as President Christofias says, words have lost their true meaning. I hear some big handsome gentlemen trying to convince us that the Cypriots are racists and that they are appearing on the radio and television, ready to take the heads of the foreign workers who took the places of the Cypriots…

In fact, they talk about Greek Cypriots who became Greek-lovers, who became Greek-obsessed and went so far as to revive in them "every non-Greek barbarian". I wonder, that is, if these people think before they speak or speak and do not understand what they have said.

It is racism when a Cypriot worker, who may have many children with children studying and has been fired from his job, claims his position by shouting for his right after someone else has been hired in his place, whether he is a foreigner or even Cypriot with inferior employment terms? Is this not racism and discrimination against the Cypriot worker who was expelled because he was obviously highly paid?

It is racism against the foreigner, when I sit in a restaurant to eat, in my own homeland, and I speak Greek to him in my language, and he does not understand and says to me "can you speak English please?" and I to insist on speaking my language and in the end to serve me chickpeas instead of unsweetened potatoes like? Yes, this is racism and discrimination of the manipulative kind against the Greek Cypriot who cannot speak his language in order to arrange a plate of food in his own homeland.

It is racism, then, against the foreigner when the firefighter on duty receives a call from the foreign receptionist to tell him that a fire has broken out in a hotel room but he can not understand since neither Greek nor at least English does not speak to him about to be reconciled, as a result of which the firefighter is accused of shortening and delaying his service to arrive at the place where the fire broke out? Isn't this racism against the Greek Cypriot who risked losing his job, being a consistent worker with degrees and diplomas and zealously dedicated to the work he does?

Some people tell us referring to foreigners that "these are people" underestimating our intelligence. The atheists forget how kind and compassionate the Cypriot workers are and they have shown it many times.

But the main thing they forget is the fact that the Cypriot workers are also PEOPLE and in fact with many obligations. Obligations to a semi-occupied homeland that its children need at all times because the Turkish troops occupy half of our homeland and are ready to occupy it in its entirety. She needs her children to collect taxes. Who needs her children to organize her national guard, her militia, who needs her children not to be eliminated as a race, with the huge demographic problem it presents.

This does not mean that we should expel foreign workers who, like us, are fighting for a piece of bread. What the Cypriot workers are claiming is the elimination of racism by some employers against the Cypriots, but also the elimination of the savage exploitation of foreigners by a portion of employers.

So the main problem is not the harsh "racism" of Cypriots against foreign workers but the racism shown by some employers for high-paid Cypriots and the savage exploitation of foreign workers by a portion of employers. THIS IS THE TRUTH.