Fucking xenophobic, those Greeks -- or is it just the Guardian's writers?
...he had no Greek blood. He was a sprig of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburgs, the peripatetic and frequently exiled Danish royal family that the Greeks imported after winning independence from Turkey in the 1820s.Sooo... two centuries, and their "blood" still doesn't count as Greek? What do you have to do to assimilate there; get a time machine and go back and make your ancestors immigrate during the Trojan war? Or will even that not suffice? -- Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi |
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Well ...
I don't know Phillip's ancestry, but when England controlled India there were multiple generations born and died in India, never saw England with their own eyes, who still called themselves English. They intentionally didn't assimilate. Without knowing the history of Greece more than I do, I can't discount the possibility that they did the same thing there. -- Drew |
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The tenure was a bit short
His grandfather was the Danish import, married to a Russian. His father was born in Greece but the lot ended up in exile first in Switzerland, and later for a 2nd time in France. |
Prince Philip checks out
- (rcareaga)
- (17)
- April 9, 2021, 11:17:25 AM EDT
Some good articles are appearing about him.
- (static)
- (5)
- April 10, 2021, 05:26:09 AM EDT
I'd never heard that about him
- (drook)
- (4)
- April 10, 2021, 10:49:16 AM EDT
Twitter dick_nixon has some tidbits, Obama had some comments.
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- April 10, 2021, 01:02:37 PM EDT
You do know Nixon died in 1994, well before Twitter? :)
-NT
- (a6l6e6x)
- (1)
- April 11, 2021, 09:53:08 PM EDT
Unpossible!!
- (Another Scott)
- April 11, 2021, 11:15:54 PM EDT
oh yeah he was so well known for it they faked a cameo of him in the orginal brit sandford son movie
-NT
- (boxley)
- April 11, 2021, 09:13:19 PM EDT
You'd never know, from looking at the UK news media
-NT
- (pwhysall)
- (7)
- April 12, 2021, 02:20:11 AM EDT
I thought they were obsessed with the royals? Or is it only the young, pretty ones they care about?
-NT
- (drook)
- (2)
- April 12, 2021, 12:29:44 PM EDT
Not only do Americans not get irony, they apparently can't do sarcasm, either.
-NT
- (pwhysall)
- (1)
- April 13, 2021, 01:57:42 AM EDT
Somewhat obvious in retrospect, I suppose
-NT
- (drook)
- April 13, 2021, 08:15:41 AM EDT
And the public doesn't seem bovvered by it either
- (malraux)
- (3)
- April 13, 2021, 10:28:01 AM EDT
Re: And the public doesn't seem bovvered by it either
- (pwhysall)
- (2)
- April 14, 2021, 12:21:09 PM EDT
When the network already has the eulogy package produced and queued up ...
- (drook)
- (1)
- April 14, 2021, 01:33:37 PM EDT
Tony Jay on Balloon-Juice says...
- (Another Scott)
- April 14, 2021, 03:11:07 PM EDT
Fucking xenophobic, those Greeks -- or is it just the Guardian's writers?
- (CRConrad)
- (2)
- May 18, 2021, 08:02:59 AM EDT
Well ...
- (drook)
- May 18, 2021, 09:56:55 AM EDT
The tenure was a bit short
- (scoenye)
- May 18, 2021, 10:09:57 PM EDT
