
05-17-2007, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by rhoyaltempest
I totally understand where you're coming from but if people would just think about it they would realize that the world's peoples have a long standing history of taking on the languages, religions, customs, etc. of their oppressors and making it their own (we know how English became the most dominant language in the world, don't we?). Through events like war, colonialism, slavery, apartheid, etc. etc., we move on while still carrying the battle scars of the past. I think that as long as we know and appreciate our ancestors and their relationship with the greeks and what came out of it, we have overcome far more than a language and some letters. As a matter of fact, you might say we simply took back what was rightfully ours to begin with.
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So very very true!
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