[sterofthemasteool]

We eat "shish kebabs" here, where did that word come from?

We say shish kebab too, but it's rare to say that, we mostly say grec or kebab

Haha, don't "Kizomba" and "Kuduro" sound like african words to you? It is Angolan, people here don't even get most of what they sing about but the rythm is contagious

I agree the rythm is contagious .

countries who have (not had) influence on greece

1: united states
2: united kingdom
3:
4: france
5: italy
6:
7:
8:
9:
10:
11: middle eastern countries - turkey - balkan countries.

position 4 and 5 is rather subjective.
the gaps are there on purpose to indicate the amount of influence,
list would also include russia but they got communism so now they can sit in the corner and cry lol.

we don't have much influence on our foods, the basic foreign foods are pizza, chinese food and sushi, american "berger" style fast food is also an "imported" thing, but wierd enought the local greek companies are doing way better than macdonalds (they close one after the other rofl).
italian cuisine is like a sub category of the greek cuisine, turkish food only has a few dishes which aren't allready in the greek cuisine.

we watch tons of hollywood film, and second come france and italy, but they are generaly appriciated more like art than junk subculture.

music industry is too complicated to describe it.

The only two greek singer I know are Maria Callas (very popular here) and Stakis Rouvas (I'm not sure it's the good orthograph)
This greek song archieved success her last year :

Greek salads and greek cheese are eat here

[investmentonlinev2006x]

I agree the rythm is contagious .



The only two greek singer I know are Maria Callas (very popular here) and Stakis Rouvas (I'm not sure it's the good orthograph)
This greek song archieved success her last year :

Greek salads and greek cheese are eat here

What about Mario Frangoulis?

http://www.mariofrangoulis.com/



What to say... the most perfect man in the world............

[Maypeevophy]

Turkish food is also very popular probably more eated than fast food, especially kebab.

Kebab is so popular here, a song was made by a turkish restaurant owner for promote his restaurant and the song become a number 1 hit :


A thing who is funny kebabs are named here "Sandwich grec" or "grec" , grec is the french word for Greek. I don't know why it's named like that because most of kebabs owner here are turks or french

actualy about kebab

Kebab (Persian:كباب, also kebap, kabab, kebob, kabob, kibob, kebhav, kephav, kebabie, Cevap[1]) is a wide variety of meat dishes originating in Persia[2][3][4] and later on adopted by the Middle East and Turkey, and now found worldwide. I

now about this, you probably call it grec because of gyros.
but i wont say more because i don't want ashina to come and start explaining how yakuts eat baklava in ciberia.
(ofc i am not saying that its greek)

also i will not go into details about other similar foods, beause i am sure alot of people who are used only to see supermarket meat will be shocked.

[avappyboalt]

[Hodstcopter]

actualy about kebab

Kebab (Persian:كباب, also kebap, kabab, kebob, kabob, kibob, kebhav, kephav, kebabie, Cevap[1]) is a wide variety of meat dishes originating in Persia[2][3][4] and later on adopted by the Middle East and Turkey, and now found worldwide. I

now about this, you probably call it grec because of gyros.
but i wont say more because i don't want ashina to come and start explaining how yakuts eat baklava in ciberia.
(ofc i am not saying that its greek)

also i will not go into details about other similar foods, beause i am sure alot of people who are used only to see supermarket meat will be shocked.

Pita bread is also eat here. It's greek I think

[CruzIzabella]

Portugal (in a historic way) and the US.

[meridiasas]

Portugal (in a historic way) and the US.

You are brazilian ?

[Vipvlad]

The only two greek singer I know are Maria Callas (very popular here) and Stakis Rouvas (I'm not sure it's the good orthograph)
This greek song archieved success her last year :

Greek salads and greek cheese are eat here

people like salvatore adamo, chrishophe for the french or cellentano for the italians were really poppular here

lol for the song! its a remake of an "ancient" one ^^

btw the chese isn't only greek, other people have it as well, like e.g. albanians, but the greek name of the chese is protected.
actualy we have alot of different types of chese (last 5 are italian thought, dunno why they are on this list)

Really??? lol

ofc lol

[IronpumpedLady]

people like salvatore adamo, chrishophe for the french or cellentano for the italians were really poppular here

lol for the song! its a remake of an "ancient" one ^^

btw the chese isn't only greek, other people have it as well, like e.g. albanians, but the greek name of the chese is protected.
actualy we have alot of different types of chese (last 5 are italian thought, dunno why they are on this list)

Feta is yummy

[G778G9P0]

people like salvatore adamo, chrishophe for the french or cellentano for the italians were really poppular here

lol for the song! its a remake of an "ancient" one ^^

btw the chese isn't only greek, other people have it as well, like e.g. albanians, but the greek name of the chese is protected.
actualy we have alot of different types of chese (last 5 are italian thought, dunno why they are on this list)




ofc lol

It's that cheese who is very popular here

The french singer you said I'm surprizing they were popular outside France. I thinked singer like Françoise Hardy, Mireille Mattieu or France Gall where more successfull in Europe , than those one

[Old-old-Ivy]

US and Spain.

[mudozvonf]

US of A. pretty much everything.

[zithromaxlinks]

USA, Old France Chanson, and Serbian turbo folk(what you guys probably call balkan music), besides our own

[mtautomoscow]

US of A. pretty much everything.

Historically Britain and France, too, of course.

Germans, Slavs, Scandinavians, and Injuns have also had some influence on the culture and supposedly a little on the language in this area of Canada more so than others.

A strong Canadian raising exists in the prairie regions together with certain older usages such as chesterfield and front room also associated with the Maritimes. Aboriginal Canadians are a larger and more conspicuous population in prairie cities than elsewhere in the country and certain elements of aboriginal speech in English are sometimes to be heard. Similarly, the linguistic legacy, mostly intonation but also speech patterns and syntax, of the Scandinavian, Slavic and German settlers – who are far more numerous and historically important in the Prairies than in Ontario or the Maritimes – can be heard in the general milieu. Again, the large Métis population in Saskatchewan and Manitoba also carries with it certain linguistic traits inherited from French, Aboriginal and Celtic forebears. Some terms are derived from immigrant groups or are just local inventions:

Bluff: small group of trees isolated by prairie
Bunny hug: elsewhere hoodie or hooded sweat shirt (mainly in Saskatchewan, but also in Alberta)
Ginch/gonch/gitch/gotch: underwear (usually men's or boys' underwear, more specifically briefs), probably of Eastern European or Ukrainian origin.[40] Gitch and gotch are primarily used in Saskatchewan and Manitoba while the variants with an n are common in Alberta and British Columbia.[41]
Jam buster: jelly-filled doughnut.
Porch climber: moonshine or homemade alcohol.
Pot hole: usually a deeper slough; also used to refer to slough in plural. Pot hole more commonly refers to a hole in a paved road caused by the freezing and thawing cycle.
Slough: pond – usually a pond on a farm
Vi-Co: occasionally used in Saskatchewan instead of chocolate milk. Formerly a brand of chocolate milk.

In farming communities with substantial Ukrainian, German or Mennonite populations, accents, sentence structure and vocabulary influenced by these languages is common.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia...and_Alberta.29

I had no idea "ginch" was of East Euro derivation.

[newspetty]

If you keep your TV open, it is USA, but after clicking it off it is Sweden and EU in general.

[taesrom]

Economy: Gulf Arabs
Entertainment: USA
Politics: USA
Technology: Japan

I just pointed out the country with the biggest influence in every sector (imo). Turkish politics is also shaped by Europeans but Americans have far more influence and Turkish politics are more similar to American style politics than to the European one. Same counts for technology where Turkey colloborates a lot with Koreans but still far more with Japanese. Many big projects in Turkey are made by Japanese, for example Marmaray (the world's deepest immersed tube tunnel), Izmit Bay Bridge (one of the largest suspension bridges in the world), nuclear power plants in Sinop etc. Turkey is the fastest growing economy in the world due to Gulf Arab investments.

[Anakattawl]

USA and Spain.

[nanyaHgoc]

US of A, thanks to colonialism.

[neeclindy]

Umm USA, Britain and Spain..

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US of A, thanks to colonialism.

Well, thanks to that you're part of their country..

[appleiphoneees]

This day in age: USA, Brazil, Angola(in no particular order)