[MGSA-L] MGSA-L Digest, Vol 85, Issue 17

james verinis jverinis at gmail.com
Wed May 18 15:17:05 PDT 2011


Without intending to make light of the situation, in line with Dr.
Allen's thinking, with all the melodramatic press Greece has suffered
over the past couple of years (I'm thinking of headlines such as
'beware of Greeks....' or 'Herculean debt'), I feel compelled to say
that I wish Athens was the most crime infested city I've ever been in.
And I'm really not that well-travelled. If the immigrants are so
dangerous and the immigrant-hating Greeks are so dangerous, if we
believe what we read, who are the people I know in Greece?

On Wednesday, May 18, 2011, Allen, Peter <PAllen at ric.edu> wrote:
> No. many of them live in Kolonaki, Zoographou, Pangrati, etc.  And when I go to Athens, which I do regularly (I was there last week and will be going again in mid-June), I stay in Pangrati and spend most of my time in the center of the city.
>
> PSA
>
> Peter S. Allen
> Department of Anthropology
> Rhode Island College
> Providence, RI  02908
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Baloglou [mailto:gbaloglou at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 5:07 PM
> To: Allen, Peter
> Cc: mgsa-l at uci.edu
> Subject: Re: [MGSA-L] MGSA-L Digest, Vol 85, Issue 17
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> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Allen, Peter <PAllen at ric.edu> wrote:
>
>> I was a bit put-off (and puzzled) by the characterization of central Athens as "crime infested" in this posting. It seems to have come from the4 Associated Press.  Is there any justification for this?  I know crime has increased in Athens in recent years, but I would hardly describe it as "infested" with crime.
>
> Why do I get the impression that all your Athenian friends live in
> nice suburbs???
>
> Here is some fresh news for starters (with a 'nice touch' in the
> penultimate paragraph):
> http://www.tanea.gr/default.asp?pid=2&ct=1&artId=4631330
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