Culture Shock

Summer in Greek means a whole lot more than it does in English. Naturally, everybody has the ability to take time off and enjoy...

I always got unrepairably depressed at Easter. And the thing about Greek Easter is that it lasts forever. Greek Easter is not just a day and...

When your Greek friend tells you, you will be meeting around 5, it is perfectly acceptable for him/her to be there around 5:30, 6:00, 6:30 or even 8:00 if it is understood that you'll be waiting at your place anyway so you won't be getting out of your way.

Being direct is considered a pretty good personality trait. That is an international fact. Greeks however, we take being direct to a whole new...

In general, Hollywood movies always contain a seamfree transition from pain to happiness and from injustice to a fair resolution. There’s trouble in paradise but it...

The financial crisis in Greece has caused detrimental havoc in the greek morale, and that, my friends, is the understatement of the century. The...

It seems to me, Anglo-Saxons have a great deal less trouble when it comes to the generation gap issue. I cannot picture my grandmother marrying...

Falling in love is an international trade. It happens everywhere. We all crave falling in love, one way or another. How we handle it,...

Family is an ideal. Both in the American and the Greek tradition family is up there, revered, respected, treasured and idealized. Being supportive to...

In the 1990's there was a great difference between Athens and New York.  Athens had no gang territories back then and one could safely...

I always believed driving is the one activity that tells all about a person. One's personality, life perspective, emotional stability and clarity -or lack...

My first job in the U.S. was an office job. There had been a few reasons for me wanting to quit that job, yet...