"...on the proclivity to affiliation with the likes of the Serbs and Mid-Easterners -"
Not just "affiliation", G, but a profound connection and closeness akin to that found among brothers. There are no people on earth we Greeks are closer to than the Serbs and the Orthodox Lebanese/Syrians. We share 2000 years of Orthodoxy with those Middle Easterners, an Hellenic culture older than that and centuries of Mohammedan domination and oppression; with the Serbs, the same Mohammedan oppression, the same Orthodoxy and the mingling of the blood of our forefathers on battlefields fighting together the enemies of our peoples and our Faith. You bet we're "affiliated" and we'll stay that way, too!
I can't imagine Serbs not being eternally greatful to the Greeks, who gave us the most beautful religion, Divine Liturgy and liturgical language on earth — Eastern Orthodoxy, Divine Liturgy of St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom and Church Slavonic. Eternally.
Try it at Divine Liturgy in Church Slavonic [you will need RealPlayer that reads .ram files]
Filos mou, I know *somewhere* in there also you have not forgotten affection for your friends across the Adriatic. I seem to remember that--a few years back a ways--you graciously let our great great grandfather slip from the ruins of Troy with his son at his side and his father on his shoulders. Wasn't there a song written about it? ;)