[Windcatcher]

Or they're just trying to make Greeks angry by comparing them to black people who were historically the lowest of the low. You know the terrible things ethnic white people were called. I can recall a few wop,dago,greaseball,etc. all because we were compared to blacks early on.

Yup. It's happened far too much, and I have no doubt it will happen again someday. We Greeks got off lucky--as far as I know, there aren't any common derogatory terms for us but then again there aren't all that many of us here in the U.S. I guess you could say we're under everyone's radar. My stepfather is Irish as are many of my friends (the rest are Italian). I don't need to tell you what they went through--all are "white", but all have suffered horribly upon entering this country before eventually becoming accepted. I personally got off easy because I don't look Greek--I look far more like my stepfather for some reason. One friend was so surprised to learn I was Greek he exclaimed, "Man I thought you were a little leprechaun!"

[cyborg]

I guess you could say we're under everyone's radar.

*Not after that movie! Good grief is there anyone in the world that hasn't seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding?! And hated it? As for the Italian thing, italian immigrants were making less than blacks in New York City during the height of Italian immigration. In the deep South, Italians were lynched because they hired blacks and didn't take kindly to segregation. That's another thread altogether.