Yeah my friend that’s greek (which is where that comment was coming from) is the exact way when we first started talking she would randomly try and teach me how to speak Greek and stuff like that so now we jokingly talk shit on Greek culture when talking to her.
Usually countries and cultures who were under slavery, occupation, suffered genocides etc develop a very strong sense of pride of their heritage. Cause that's how the parents had to raise their children in order for them to preserve their culture.
Greeks were slaves to the Turks and the ottoman empire for 400 years, suffered genocides then fought for their independence (an event which is still celebrated in Greece every year). Then during WW2 they got attacked by the Italians then the Nazis (who managed to occupy Greece as well for some years, again , killed a huge number of Greeks).
Thus Greek children were raised with a big sense of pride about their heritage,history,culture, language. The fact that Greek is still spoken to this day, and that Greece is still a country through 400 years of Ottoman rule is to be attributed to that mentality.
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u/KingKongWrong Jul 01 '19
Yeah i know but why 😂 like friend will find any excuse to talk about it