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Greece is often classified as Western Europe, I suspect because of its perceived kinship to Spain and Italy and for its role as the birth of classical Western civilisation.
However, is modern Greece really more of an eastern European or even Near Eastern country? I'd say it shares far more with Bulgaria and Turkey than it does with say, England and Germany.
The Greek culture is Mediterreanean (Similar to Armenians, Assyrians, Lebanese, Syrians and to lesser extent to the Italians).
Geographic-wise, it is actually considered Eastern Europe, but not really very eastern Europe at all.
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Greece has been part of Western Europe before the existence of Western Europe.
Greeks are European, Meds, they don't have anything in common with their neighbours except Italy.
How in the world could Greece be part of western Europe, when it is positioned in the south-east? Is this a game where we pick one european country at a time and try to make up stuff about it?
Is Los Angeles part of America? You know, it has a spanish name, it should be part of Mexico. That is how silly this thing about Greece feels to me.
I know that western Europe has become an easier way to say "the rich countries in Europe that happen to be more or less neighbors to eachother", but Greece has always been its own country. Does it have a more western feel then the rest? I don't think that, either, because Greece is just different. Its culture, its heritage, its position, all these things make it different from all the other European countries.
I could never see Greece as part of western Europe, economical crisis or not; I couldn't place it in the east or south either, altough geographically it would make sense.
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