Posted on 07/11/2005 12:23:27 PM PDT by GipperCT
Greeks condemn terrorist attacks such as those that occurred in London last Thursday as criminal acts but would rather stay neutral in the fight against terror, which they see as a war of the poor on the rich, a survey by Kapa Research shows.
The results of the survey, conducted on Thursday for Antenna radio station, were published by newspaper To Vima on Saturday.
Of the 1,220 respondents to the telephone survey, 84.6 percent condemned the attacks on London “unequivocally” as a criminal act, while 8.2 percent applauded “an act of resistance against the great powers” and 5.9 percent said that they were either neutral or not concerned.
Despite the wide condemnation, only 44 percent would certainly (20 percent) or probably (24 percent) take part in a demonstration of solidarity with Londoners, while 54.2 percent would certainly (39.6 percent) or probably (14.6 percent) not.
Greeks are strongly opposed to Tony Blair’s call for a tough international response against terrorism. Three out of four (74.3 percent) say Greece should stay neutral, while 20.8 percent said it should support the UK and others. Nearly two out of three (62.8 percent) believe that the attack will only have a negative effect on big powers, while 33.3 percent say it will affect Greece.
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Churchill had it right, appeasement is feeding the alligator in the hopes he eats you last.
Shameful and pathetic
Ever since the Athenians executed Socrates, it's been all downhill for the Greeks.
"...which they see as a war of the poor on the rich..."
How the f*ck do they figure that, given the bottomless financial resources Al Q, Hezbollah, Hamas, et al apparently have?
Or is it simply that they can't frame a struggle without Marx?
Wake up! The recent bombings in London and the continued terrorism around the world should not reduce countries to remain neutral or complacent. It should make us mad!
Useless twits.
Contrary to the Western European norm, the Greeks have made no effort whatsoever at assimilating foreigners, nor do they maintain any illusion whatsoever that they wish to do so. Therefore, they feel secure in the integrity of their 'Greekness' and the stability of their social order. So long as they antagonize no one (but their immediate neighbors, esp the Turks) they don't see why anyone should threaten them (but their immediate neighbors, esp the Turks).
It might also be that foreigners looking for work bypass openly Communist sh!tholes like Athens in favor of London, Paris, Rome and Munich.
Gipp it looks like you're maybe taking an unfair hammering here, but I can understand why some of the posts are the way that they are. The Greeks may very well be cutting off their noses to spite their faces as where were the Western Europeans on Cyprus and Macedonia? They were on the wrong side is where they were.
Nah, that's just silly, ignorant nonsense. There are plenty of foreigners looking for work in Greece. 950,000 to be exact, which is 9% of the population and about 12% of the workforce.
LOL!
A large percentage of those foreigners are seasonal workers in the tourist industry - not permanent residents.
A college-educated Indian can go to London and find a permanent job at a bank.
The same guy in Greece would only find a three month gig as a barback in Greece.
The Greek economy sucks because it is more backward than France's.
That's nonsense. 90% of hired work in agriculture and construction is foreign. The vast majority have nothing to do with tourism; they are Albanians in the above trades. More importantly, the reason that they're there makes no difference whatsoever to my initial statement about assimilation (or lack thereof). The percentage of foreigners in Greece is comparably high or higher than other Western nations; they just don't get assimilated.
I really don't understand sometimes why people feel the need to comment on things they obviously know nothing about.
PS. Foreigners without work are attracted to socialist benefits; they aren't repelled by them.
So I was wrong about foreign labor being largely seasonal, then. LOL!
The percentage of foreigners in Greece is comparably high or higher than other Western nations; they just don't get assimilated.
Seasonal laborers rarely do.
I really don't understand sometimes why people feel the need to comment on things they obviously know nothing about.
A boringly dismissive comment that does not change the facts on the ground one whit: Immigrants can build a life for themselves in Holland, Britain, France even without using lavish social services.
This is because the economies there are less hidebound and more dynamic than Greece's.
A foreigner looking to find a new permanent home with a good job and a place to raise his family bypasses Athens and heads for London.
These people are pathetic.
My whole point to begin with was that Greeks make no effort to assimilate immigrants. You have underscored my point with the addition that Greece's economy is less dynamic than Britain, Holland, France, and Germany. My response to the latter is that in general it is about the same with Britain and Holland, and certainly more so than France and Germany (although at a much smaller scale than all of those). Greece's economy has been growing by about 4% per annum since 1996, which alone is not only more dynamic than all the above but comparable to the US.
London is not Paris. If you mean for a statement to be limited to London then don't confuse the two. Maybe your perception of Greece is mired in 1995. Greece's purchasing power parity has leaped from about $13,900 per capita to about $21,300 in 2004 (according to the CIA Factbook). Get a clue.
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