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The Greek Brigands - The Culture of Financial Crisis

"In any case, shouldn't something be said about the Greeks? Their national character depends on the possibility of the devastated and oppressed little man improving of his general surroundings by sheer crafty." - Lawrence Durrell, Prospero's Cell (1945) The Greek emergency has uncovered existential shortcomings in the Greek economy and uncovered weaknesses in the bigger European arrangement of money related governing rules. In any case, the frequently passionate reactions have likewise demonstrated a social extremity amongst north and south. The German magazine, Focus, caught this hostility by a picture of the Venus of Milo suggestively staying up the center finger at Germany. Infuriated Greeks consequently helped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2FcWcAQs70 , Germans to remember the Nazi plundering of Greek gold stores and unpaid war requitals. Past this populism in the media, there exists a key fracture in approach sees between Mediterranean nations on the one si...