This article explores the common misconception of Greece as merely a tourist destination, emphasizing the country's rich history, language, and cultural significance. It uses a personal anecdote to illustrate how visitors often overlook the complexities and realities of modern Greece.
Greece is widely seen as a destination rather than a place where real people, with a real history, speaking a language that is thousands of years old, actually live and workI was recently showing an English visitor around Corfu; we came to the garden commemorating Lawrence and Gerald Durrell, who lived here in the 1930s and wrote extensively about the island. .
My visitor wasn’t embarrassed by his lack of awareness. Nor was he at all concerned by the fact that, on the domestic front of politics, Greece continues to display many of the birth-pangs originating in its war of independence from Turkey, more than two centuries ago.
But Greece, with Kimberley Guilfoyle as the new US ambassador, doesn’t live on its past. Several universities – including the Ionian University here in Corfu – are highlighting “digital” as the way forward in attracting students, who are wary of the old-fashioned humanities. The crisis in falling numbers of applicants has led to some faculties in the humanities to be redesignated as “digital”.
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