My father was Sarmatian Greek. As Greek as any Greek, part of the Greek empire for what, a millennia? Lived in Greece their whole life and immigrated to the US through Bulgaria.
They are middle eastern. Greeks. They have sandy pale white skin, and dark middle eastern hair. My dad was the whitest person in every room he was in, but had an afro in high school.
And he's as Greek as any Greek.
That's why the internet sounds like morons in this conversation. They don't know what Greek means.
You can say the same about almost any country in the region (if not most countries in the world).
I lived in Turkey for a year. In truth, most Turks fit the phenotype: they tend to have darker skin, dark hair, and all-around swarthy appearance. But I also know many Turks who are extraordinarily pale and have naturally blond or ginger hair. I’ve even met some from the far Southeast who could’ve easily passed themselves off as Indian or Pakistani.
The people posting this very beautiful woman are just doing so because they still get triggered by black actors. It's not just that they don't know what Greek looks like, it's that they don't care. They just wanna cry about DEI
Well no shit, but greek gods were obviously modeled after greek people, or vise versa. Christianity has the same believe.
Mythology isn't outright fiction, she's supposed to be a person of her time and native folklore isn't going to suddenly have characters from across the equator, at least not without it being an integral part of the story
Also we're not even talking about modern Greeks, we're talking about ancient greeks, a lot of whom were half god. Nobody knows what Greek might have meant back then. And its a fucking movie.
This is in pretty bad faith... you are aware that Greece has been under the Ottoman Empire for 500 years? Which it had not been, 3200 years ago... this is the most false equivalence of all false equivalence. Also, your dad being a part of the "Greek Empire" for a millenium would be pretty darn hard given that there hasn't been a "Greek empire" for thousands of years...
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u/MjrLeeStoned 13d ago
The internet doesn't understand who Greeks are.
They don't look like one thing.
My father was Sarmatian Greek. As Greek as any Greek, part of the Greek empire for what, a millennia? Lived in Greece their whole life and immigrated to the US through Bulgaria.
They are middle eastern. Greeks. They have sandy pale white skin, and dark middle eastern hair. My dad was the whitest person in every room he was in, but had an afro in high school.
And he's as Greek as any Greek.
That's why the internet sounds like morons in this conversation. They don't know what Greek means.