Thank you ❤ Marilou

It's true, because most of the perception comes from Greeks who emigrated ~40 years ago. They don't always keep up to date with what Greece is like now. For example my dad, raised in Athens but lives in London, didn't know the Greek word for "broadband internet". Of course the second generation Greeks inherit this Greekness which is a bit dated and different. It is interesting!

It is exactly what I felt as part of the Greek Community Association of Santiago de Chile. But it doesn't only happen to Greeks abroad, but to all foreign communities. I am not Greek, nor do I have Greek origin. I was integrated into the group as a "philhellinas". I am half Colombian, half Chilean, and what I saw in the Greek community was the same that happened in the Colombian community in Chile. When you emigrate, you bring with you the image of the country you left. As you aren't able anymore to live the changes and evolutions of your country, your memories are the only thing which connects you to your country. So, everything becomes more intense. The memories bring to an idealised vision of the country you left, but also more conservative. The Chilean Greeks organise tavernas, they have a traditional folkloric dance group (to which I belonged, and in which I learned to dance sirtaki but also regional folk dances). In the tavernas, people used to throw and crash plates until someone told that people in Greece don't do that anymore, and they throw flowers instead. Some young descendants decided to convert into the greek orthodox church, and some of them learned Greek, although the most part of the Chilean Greek Community doesn't speak the language. When someone travelled to Greece, he/she brought Greek products and handicrafts to sell to the people. I have lived in France for 15 years. Although I don't participe in any community, Chilean, Colombian or Greek, sometimes I go to restaurants to eat traditional food. I don't preserve the most part of my country traditions, although I kept some of them. But, what I feel the most, it is the distance and difference between the Chile I left and the Chile which exists today, in the same way as I realised when I compared the Colombia my mother transmitted me at home and the Colombia I knew the first time I went to the country by my own.

I agree. I'm not Greek, but lived in Athens for 4 years, a long time ago and learned the language and culture. The Greeks from Toronto had parents that were poor mostly illiterate farmers fleeing poverty and civil war, they moved to Toronto worked hard to provide for their families and assimilated very well. The Greeks from Montreal were mostly from parents who were more educated and fled the junta, they were trapped in Quebec's culture/language wars, neither wanted by the French or the English and were left to be themselves. They sent their children to Greek schools and haven't faced the same pressures to assimilate as those from Toronto.

You're welcome! Happy to help.

I relate so much to your comment! A 💙Greek -American (50%, but feel like more!) from the Buckeye state❤🌰! Though unlike you...I have never been to Greece!🙍🏻That's why I love these videos so much...I feel like I am at least connecting with some of my roots in an educational way.😊 Before the internet exposing humanity to each other from all over the world, my way of connecting to Greece was attending every Greek festival I could find!☺💃🏻And I even danced for the Greek church in my city for a great part of my youth. Because of that, the music, dance, food and spirit feels ingrained in me, and I love it! 💃🏻💙 That is so wonderful your grandmother's👵🏼 original village home is still standing🎉🏡. What region of Greece is Nafpaktos in? And what part of Ohio are you living now🌰❤?

ROFL, only Italian-Americans would get offended by Sopranos. That series is about goombahs, not about Italians.

Ευχαριστούμε ιδιαιτέρως για το όμορφο σχόλιο!

Φανταστείτε ότι αν και είμαι Έλληνας, βλέπω τα βίντεο των παιδιών γιατί είναι πολύ συμπαθητικά.

Χαχα ευχαριστούμε! 😄

You can get it for just 4€ / month + VAT if you become a member, for it and 100s of other episodes.

It’s an amazing time to be alive in ΕΛΛΑΣ !!!! 😅 Also: Freddo 👍🏻

Την ένταση των ομιλιών;

@@EasyGreekVideos Όλο. Το master.

@@piersiciu Το Loudness μας είναι σταθερό σε όλα τα επεισόδια γιατί κάθε φορά κάνουμε ένα πέρασμα από το Auphonic και δίνει σταθερή ένταση. Μπορείτε να γίνετε πιο συγκεκριμένος σχετικά με το τι θα θέλατε να είναι πιο δυνατά;

If they are on the right, most likely they hate them. As for the rest, it depends... Btw im curious and i wanna know if i guessed correctly, is your name Georgian?

@@Xarmutinha Yup! Good guess! It is Josef Stalin's real name - not my own.

@@IosefDzhugashvili ooooooh ok lmao

The Communist Party of Greece is still alive and kicking. Though they are old-school Marxists and out of modern times. They lost the civil war, and most of their important figures were ostracized, imprisoned, or in exile.

@@antoniousai1989 Actually Greece lost the civil war and the winners were Churchill, George Paoandreou and the Greek collaborators of Germans.

You are right ,when I watched the video I felt it was a bit insulting too .. At the other hand when we met Greek people at Toronto gave me that feeling , but it was just a few Greeks we met so it is not right to make such a general comment for a whole community ❤ . Marilou , Easy Greek

@@marilenasalamanou7372 i apologize if i came across as mean but thank you for understanding

Just her opinion. And expat communities of any culture often do reinforce cultural traits as a form of collective identity. Can't have it both ways, either enjoy some stereotypes to some degree, or be assimilated into cultural oblivion. Can't really have both ways, though can find one's own happy medium/ balance on the individual/ collective identity continuum. Also bear in mind the American trait/ 'stereotype?' is to emphasise the individual over against the collective. I mean US seems often reduced to empty jingoistic make America great again being painted on baseball caps. Maybe upbeat, progressive, forward looking, individuality and freedom, but also immensely selfish, greed, immensely materialistic, and status conscious, massive class system based on wealth, obesity, both very intelligent and kind of stupid stereotypes we have of US. I personally would add in the merger of state, corporate and military looks pretty extreme form of tyranny, some kind of techno feudal oligarchy totalitarianism? We copy of course in UK.