"They made us Greeks,
while we were not."

Thalia Dragona,
General Secretary of the Education Ministry

When the compass shows us being somewhere in… nowhere, we wonder which way to turn or how to shape and educate the very sensitive and impressionable young generation.

Perhaps Mrs. Dragona dreams, as it appears from her book, "What is our homeland?", of a Modern Greek nation without identity, the way she clarifies that "it's racist to declare that we are Greeks." 

I believe that these phrases hurt the very being of the everyday Greek who has fought to preserve the Greek culture through the ages and has felt the scorn from eternal enemies and make-believe friends.  I believe that historical data enables us to approach the meaning of Hellenism in cultural terms and to accept that, basically, Hellenism manages to survive historically because it's unique. And certainly no one contradicts the fact that there are other cultures with their own unique characteristics.

Miki Theodorakis' answer to Mrs. Dragona's writings, expresses my very thoughts when he says: "For me personally, the question "what is our homeland?" does not exist. For all those who dedicated their work, but mainly their lives to this country, and there are thousands, millions of Greeks, dead or alive, these questions don't exist, simply because they themselves are the homeland." Another veteran fighter, Nikolaos Raftopoulos, refutes her questions stating: “A country's population is a free body, claiming its own culture, morals, customs and memories of its past…"