Wir dürfen nicht vergessen, dass England unsere „Stadt auf einem leuchtenden Hügel“ ist.

Nah, we didn’t. We still feel the effects of British Colonialism today..

Sort of, but it’s not really about England or colonialism specifically.

An elite of urban Cypriots – having been turned into servile peasants for the majority of the last 8 centuries – have internalized that transcendence from their lowly peasant origins is tantamount to a civilizational upgrade to the culture of their masters.

That worldview has disseminated to others who have become urbanized in living conditions and mentality over the years and manifests in the Cypriot’s glorification of the culture of their former masters and the aversion towards elements of their native culture.

So you end up with a society of “χώρκατοι” juxtaposed with the proverbial city-dwellers that attribute all that is good about Cyprus to foreign “high culture” elements they have personally adopted to ape the former elite of the island. All that while ignoring that the country was in fact built upon the shoulders of the “χώρκατοι” and that the state of abject poverty of the locals was an affliction largely caused by foreign domination (among other factors).

This mental colonization of sorts has led to a state of what can only be described as Stockholm syndrome. Cypriots – who have every right to blame their historical hardships on their foreign occupiers – seem fixated on their former masters; what they have done for them, how superior they were to the “χώρκατοι” they tolerate among their midst etc.