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Greek-American Students Report on Economic Protests |
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Alexis is pursuing a degree in broadcast journalism as a rising junior at the University of Illinois. She is the recipient of an Athens Fellowship and a member of the Reinventing Greece Media Project. |
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 Slowly but surely, global media outlets have crafted an image of Greece and Greeks as a place where nothing gets done, no one works, and chaos floods the streets. |
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Vasiliki attends Northwestern University where she is studying Legal Studies and International Studies. She traveled to Athens in the summer of 2011 as part of the Reinventing Greece Athens Fellow Program. |
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The Greeks simply need to accept the challenge and reinterpret the crisis as a chance for a new beginning. |
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Maria is a student at the University of Maryland, where she writes for the school newspaper, the Diamondback. She traveled to Greece with the Reinventing Greece Media Program over the summer. |
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Greece is a beautiful country with an irreplaceable culture and history and is simply going through a rough patch. Protests and riots are nothing new for the nation, and I cannot imagine them stopping anytime soon — it’s become part of Greek society. |
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