🇬🇷 Welcome to my channel! I'm Daniel, a British/Venezuelan composer who traded London for the sun-drenched shores of Greece back in 2010. Join me as I share the ins and outs of my Greek life from beautiful Nafplio.
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I think it is the attitudes of the people that make this misnomer continue. Greeks have a way of making things fun and incorporating family and friends with work. I have seen a mixture of work ethic in Greece. As a Greek, I can say that most of my relatives work very hard. But, you will see children at their shops, friends having coffee and talking, etc. But any business owner is working all of the time. Things like closing early on some days, not being open on uncommon in the west. Balacing work and life is not a thing. So when, say, an American wants something and the store is closed, they get frustrated and disparaging, calling Greeks lazy. Simultaneously, they all envy and want the lifestyle. After many years in the US, I returned and became frustrated while searching for something in particular. My cousin looked at me and said 'you cant always have anything you want, whenever you want it....and that's not a bad thing'. I think back on that frequently.
Για σου Melbourne Australia. I have been to Nafplio. Amazing place fell in love with it.
The EU(stands for eternally useless) loans Greece money, the people see none of it, yet again the corrupt politicians line their pockets and the population get slammed by the media for being lazy especially from Germany which proves that the propaganda spirit of Dr Goebbels lives on. Nice one Germany.
I’m in the US and don’t get the impression that Greeks are lazy. In fact, when I feel that my job is hard, I think of the conversations I’ve had with people in Greece about their work. I am humbled.
As a Greek watching this i would like to say this. Talk about whatever you won't i hate those videos that tell you what to do. Even though i agree with this guy that talking about those topics which are controversial in my country can be frustrating,its ok. I like to discuss such topics with tourists its what makes us grow and know how other people view our country. I also for example when i am traveling asking questions which are controversial. I believe that what he is trying to say is not do not ask this questions but rather be respectful and kind to the culture in general.
Public servants are tired in the first 30 mins of their shift... Well, this is an exaggeration. They're tired in the first 10 mins of their shift! Private sector staff goes on for hours and hours, underpaid and with no overtime salary in most cases!
*You are much more Greek than us Greeks! You have a lovely personality, a very conscious personality, but unfortunately, our country does not have the "guts", especially Greek people are to blame for not having "the guts." Greek woman here, living in Greece - Athens- and working as a freelancer and content creator. I congratulate you for your morality!*
The only lazy Greeks are some who work for the Government or the Public Sector. However it is human nature when you know your job is secure to slack a little. I don't know if this is still the case but from what I have been told things have improved over the last 15 years. I lived in Greece until 29 years ago when I moved to the US.
The Greeks are the hardest workers in the world from my own experience. Σεβασμός σε κάθε εργατικό Έλληνα
Congratulations 🤗
10:30pm/11pm is not late at night in greece. It’s relatively early.
to those telling you that you gonna up the prices of the hotels because of the tourists you bring here, tell them that you will chase the tourists with waterpistols just like the spanish(catalonians) people did and thus you will level the playing field. improvise, adapt, overcome 😂 media were saying that greeks are lazy for the public sector too, and that is a common stereotype even between greeks, although what I have witnessed with my own eyes so far(almost reached my 40ies), was that very few people were like that both in public and private sector. Usually was bad management for most of the problems I have witnessed and business plans written in a napkin(even by politicians). Well these few people also exist in other countries too.
Μostly lazyness is viewed at those who work in public sector.Not in the private..
Amen! 💛
I had never heard that Greeks were lazy. This was a first when I started watching videos on life in Greece - this by far my favorite channel. Thank you for what you do ♥️
Great video. Keep up the good work!
Let's set things straight. Few foreign media say that Greeks are lazy. Greeks work probably the longest hours in the EU. Lazy? Hell, no! Unproductive? Hell, yes! We do work long hours chasing our tails. Why? Quite a few reasons. First, resistance to change. We stubbornly refuse to follow new, more productive methods of work. We print online forms, fill them in, and then ask a secretary to do data entry from printed forms. Or we do that ourselves. Second, fear of others learning our (widely known) secrets. Third, selfishness. We refuse to take advice on our business from other professionals. We alone know better. Fourth lack of capital, and lack of willingness to share production equipment with others. We prefer to buy for ourselves an unproductive low-level machine rather than sharing the cost of a highly productive cutting-edge machine with others. This lack of productivity is perceived as laziness by foreign media. They are not fair, but they are not wrong, either.
You talked in circles for 6 minutes..
Greeks ranked the number one hardworking people in Europe and number two globaly behind the Mexicans. Just saying...for those puppets that started to spread rumors during economic crisis.
Where is this so called stereotype of the Greeks being lazy come from?, I am Greek and I don't recognize any such nonsense, I would like someone to tell me in person that we Greeks are lazy so I can give them a piece of my Greek mind or my fist about it!. The Greeks are the envy of everyone however there is so much hypocrisy about that there has to be some way of justifying this. So the Greeks are not lazy, and Daniel of anyone tells you differently my advice to you is to give them the finger, the Greek finger, if they don't know what it means then do a video on it!.
I think this started when the Albanians started taking all the construction jobs.
Not sure if you covered this topic, but I have a question about Greek banks and how safe are they, and which ones you think are better. Kinda sticky subject but important for relocating.
Γειά σου Daniel εάν δουλεύω στην Ελλάδα καταλαβαίνω οποιονδήποτε δουλεύει σκληρά. Σε βλέπω να στέκεσαι στον ήλιο για ένα video και ιδρώνω γιατί?γιατί απλά έχω δουλέψει 8 ώρες στους με 40 βαθμούς. Καλά και χρήσιμα αυτά που λες ξεκαθαρίζουν ορισμένα πράγματα. Κλεάνθης από την Κατερίνη.
I used to work in a construction company 3 years ago, while in Greece the temperature was 44 degrees... people could not even get on their tracks to work properly because of the heat... nevertheless, our boss would not care... he thought that if he would supply us with cold drinking water we were ok to work in such conditions, 8-14 hours
Greeks are definitely not lazy, I have seen their work ethic 1st hand. I love how your videos are made, edited & on YT the same day, great to see the weather there compared to here. Another great video. 🇬🇷🧿🎶 Also, talking of music, which Greek music would you recommend?
The Germans started this lie at the time of the Greek economic crisis in order to justify their draconian stance toward Greece. I am a 70 year old Greek immigrant who has lived in the USA since 1959. I have seen several generations of Greek immigrants come to America, work exceptionally hard and prosper. Does anyone think that they suddenly developed a work ethic upon arrival? No, they brought it with them for it is part of their DNA, part of their filotimo. During the crisis, I happened to be in Aruba with my wife and met a family of German tourists. The husband was very full of himself and arrogantly began to lambast me about how the toil of German workers was going to be used to bail out the lazy Greeks. I set him straight in such a manner that his Ubermensch ears are still aching.
Back in the late 80s I worked alongside 2 Greek sisters, they ran rings around the English I've never thought those Greeks are lazy. Thank you for your intelligent vlogs, you are correct. Keep going 💪
I love Greece and respect the Greek people. Still, working long hours predominantly in relatively low value added industries is not resulting in the European and US levels of industrial and technological growth and thus the perception of slow development and laziness.
I got to know my father very little because he worked in the cafe from 1959 to 1996 from 7 in the morning to 11 at night with two hours for lunch. He died of exhaustion after two years and my mother fought like a hero to keep the house with a sick old mother and two children (who were not the quietest in the world).
you NEED to showcase AXLADOKAMPOS village, literally next door and the source of the revolution. thank me later.
The Greek civil servants are lazy. The private sector workers are mainly not.
The European Union statistics don't lie, they show that the Greeks work the longest hours per day in all of the E.U. Where the foreign media get their facts from is beyond me. The foreign media are anti Greek on this and many other topics.
Never show the number five with your palm of your hand stretched outside
The only reason they created this propaganda was to pass the inhumane austerity measures that destroyed us. They cut salaries and pensions to half but everything else became more expensive. It was an excuse.
Nice video and great Tips! Hope you enjoyed your time in our first capital city, Nafplio 🔝😊
I really enjoy watching your videos while being in the kitchen and cooking. What I love about your videos, is that you talk about basic things in life which are quite inspiring for myself. Keep up the great work, love from Germany
I haven’t watched yet the video but I would say other countries get jealous because they don’t realize Greeks prioritize social activists weather be with friends or family a lot more
32 years as contractor i was working 10-11 hoursper day even on sundays with snow n rain in the winter and 40 degrees celcium in the summer after i retired i became a chief officer in a security company ...now im 64 years old and i work 14 hours per day in 3 different posts i believe im lazy cause i dont work 24 hours per day :)
Let's not forget that most people in Athens and the other big cities don't have those mythical siestas! IMHO, it's more of a '70s stereotype, or something that's still feasible only for a few people.
20:03 Is the camera black? It could be that it is heating up because of the sun. You can try wrapping it up in some thick tin foil (like those take away food containers) or maybe even regular household tin foil (it is more brittle) and see if that helps at all.
Bravo... inspirational.
Please don’t get me wrong but yeah this is not a “work” what you are doing. I think your Greek wife is the one who really works and cares about the expenses. And yes, Greeks are not lazy. The government increased the work days to 6, not because of Greeks are lazy. It’s because the young working population declines in Greece.
It's not the Greeks... it's the POLITICS that stealing wealth and they are LAZY
Honestly, this is the first time that I’ve ever heard Greeks to be characterized as lazy. I don’t recall ever reading or hearing any such characterization in the US mainstream media. Maybe that’s what the EU media says…perhaps as a result of Greece’s economic problems…I don’t know. Frankly, I find it to be laughable, but something that I’ll want to discuss with the locals when we visit this fall..
This was basically German propaganda because they caused huge suffering to the Greek population with their austerity measures and they wanted to present the greeks in a negative light in their home country because the Greek banks would have to repay German loans if Greece didn't abandon the euro...
You should have been in Greece around 2010 - 2014. I work in tourism and we had a lot of Germans and Dutch that would say stuff like i can do whatever i want, you owe us money you lazy Greeks.
Τhe german politicians had to blame greeks so that they wouldn't admit that they risked german's taxpayers money to save the german banks that were linked with the greek debt and were risking default if greece defaulted . So greeks were named "lazy",when in fact they work the most hours in the E.U. As for why Europeans almost forced greek governments to accept those loans, it's 101 on taking over a country. Don't take my word for it, Google how u.s.a took over developing countries by debt
So true, Greeks ARE NOT LAZY!!! They’re some of the hardest working people. I’m a naturalized Greek citizen with dual citizenship and live in the US. You don’t owe anyone any explanations whatsoever.
It looks like everybody likes a lie
EU working hours 2011 Greece All in employment 42.2 Full-time employment 43.7 UK All in employment 36.3 Full-time employment 42.7
Workers in Greece had the longest average usual hours at 42.2 hours per week (in europe in 2011)webarchive nationalarchives gov uk
Good point and intentions defending the Greeks here. Statistics are true that greeks work more than anyone else in the E.U. Whoever I cant really understand touching this topic without including politics and economics in it. One should adress, WHY GREEKS WORK SO MUCH? Do they just love working, or maybe they NEED to work that much in order to survive financially? Work in Greece does not have the same value as in other places, and THIS is a sad and frustrating fact that is driving locals insane slowly and steadily. And is not a healthy sign for this society.
A Romanian here! I never considered the Greeks to be lazy! Working in the climatic conditions there requires a lot of work power and to manage with the limited resources you have! Respect from Romania!
Ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ φίλε μου.
Watching from Washington, US. thanks for the inspiring video! I'm currently learning Greek and working on getting my German passport (have to get my US passport to apply, my mom immigrated to the US as a kid) to (hopefully in the next five years) move to Greece with my future wife. We're getting married in 3 months and started getting serious about where we want to settle to raise a family. Your videos have helped inspire us that it's possible and not just a pipe dream. THANK YOU SO MUCH!