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Even if my country is not perfect, I still love it. Because at least it's my country and you know when I went there what really impacted was two big things
When I went there and I saw the buildings, the infrastructure, the beauty of the physical things. I thought, woah...my ancestors. They wanted me to have this. They bled, died, killed, and built all of this stuff for me.
I never truly felt that way in my life until I was in Greece
Maybe not my direct ancestors but other Hellenes for me and other Hellenes And, it was such a profound realization that it was amazing. Because, I think, not many (for example) French people in France think that way every time they look at a building but for a Greek who has lived outside of Greece, only to visit it in his adult life, it was very much interesting and just so passion filled to the point where I could truly see the love, passion, dedication, and sacrifice that other Hellenes put for the future generations.
For some Americans to say that my ancestors didn't build the things we have today, for me to have a better life, is an idiotic opinion of a person living in a deracinated economic zone with no culture and no identity beyond consumerism.
The other thing was the people and culture I really wish I grew up in Greece The people were so nice it was unreal. Americans literally get paid to be nicer (tip culture) and yet Greeks were more real, more friendly, and nicer and they helped me many times and gave me so many gifts it was amazing. I never felt so familiar in a place I had never been to either, because I was a Greek, who had never been there.
For this I have to say: God, thank you for letting me be born a Hellene, the greatest people the world has ever known and will ever know.
