@pkaratsareas I shouldn't have looked at these early in the day. I'm crying. Being Cypriot is so tough sometimes. 
https://www.academia.edu/26255025/Transplanting_diglossia_attitudes_towards_Standard_and_Cypriot_Greek_among_Londons_Greek_Cypriot_community …
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The quotes are indeed heartbreaking and sometimes enraging. But we are trying to change the negative attitudes. Seehttps://twitter.com/i/moments/874192949466345472 …
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That's great. I always get mixed reactions meeting with Cypriots. British Cypriots accept me more than my compatriots as a Cypriot.
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Cypriots who're born in Cyprus & haven't met me before /don't know I went to school and grew up in Cyprus usually take longer to accept me.
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I think it's more than surname (my dad's not ethnically Cypriot) it's also the fact I'm perceived as potentially being either too anglicised
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or and this is heartbreaking, potentially Turkish Cypriot and therefore in their eyes not Cypriot.
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But given you had positive experiences and I'm desperate to talk in Greek Cypriot as I don't know many (even though I live in Haringey LOL)
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I'll go to some events organised by the community. I'm worried about the church's influence too ofc.
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