Cultural Presentation- Greek Abroad Slides
Sources are in the last slide.
My presentation is on Greeks living abroad. Greeks live all over the world with the heaviest concentrations residing in Germany, the US, Australia, the UK, Russia, and the Ukraine. There used to be a large Greek community in Constantinople but due to the pogroms of the 1950's, 1960's, and 1970's and tensions between Greece and Turkey the population was reduced to a few thousand. Recently though a revival of the Greek community in the city has occurred as Greeks leave their homeland for economic opportunity. In Australia the Greek community has established itself in the region of Melbourne and Victoria since the end of the 19th century, as Greeks from Sparta and other areas of the Peloponnese sought economic opportunity. Recently, a new wave of Greeks has arrived on the island-continent as people flee the devastating economic crisis of Greece. Greeks here are influential in local society and hold important political posts. Similarly, in New York Greeks exert enough influence in the area of Astoria so that roads have been renamed with Greek letters. It is clear from the presentation that the Greek diasporas have greatly impacted the communities that have received Greek populations, meanwhile Greeks have been able to maintain their cultural heritage and values.
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