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Re:Why Jewish History Is So Hard to Write by oblio on Thursday April 05, 2018 @09:54AM (#16764895)
Could be. What I do know is that I have Greek friends who express the same feeling and they weren't a persecuted minority. There's a certain hubris about nationalities with a rich past.

It's not necessarily bad, but it's still hubris :)

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Re:Why Jewish History Is So Hard to Write by jjgreen on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:26PM (#16766322)
"The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally"

Saki, The Jesting of Arlingthon Stringham

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Re:Why Jewish History Is So Hard to Write by lardo on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:11PM (#16766192)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Greece
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Re:Why Jewish History Is So Hard to Write by oblio on Thursday April 05, 2018 @12:20PM (#16766269)
Dude, I’m Romanian, I know about the Ottomans.

Greeks were still the majority in Greece and they were a well regarded minority in the empire. They were persecuted after WW1 (see the population exchanges and the Smyrna massacre).

But Greeks don’t view themselves as a persecuted minority, historically. It’s all about the mindset and self-perception.

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