Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Assimilation would be a negative thing as long as it would make Greek students forget what is going on in Greece," Caramanis says. "Many of us feel very strongly that all processes of Greek people being educated here is some agent of cultivating an admiration of the American culture in Greece...
Most of them belong to the Hellenic Students Association, a joint Harvard-MIT body whose constitution dictates that it must never align itself with a Greek political party. But the association is perhaps the most political student group in Cambridge, judging from its intense concern with the state of Greece. And with a membership of well above 100, it is probably the largest radical student organization...
...association convenes at night in MIT's student center, and only Greek is spoken. If the meetings of most radical American groups revolve around speeches from individuals on oppression and abuses that usually do not directly involve the members, there is a nationalistic sense pervading a meeting of the Hellenic students of a heritage of modern-day persecution to which every member is a party. Although 3000 miles from the homeland, for them, they say, the threat is real...
...much of this intense cultural nationalism is derived from Greek students' alienation from American society is not clear, although the marriage of such heartfelt cultural collectivity with a radical ideology and "blueprint" for society seems possible only among a people that carries with it always the consciousness that it is oppressed...
Babis, Savakis, a special student in biochemistry and cell biology, came to the United States this summer. He was active in the student movement in Athens, and he still shudders when he hears the mention of torturing of students. Savakis divides his time between his studies and the Greek newspapers which he says he reads with a consuming interest. Although the junta yielded to Constantine Caramanlis this summer, Savakis is not comfortable...