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What does Greece 'do'? I can tell you what France exports/makes, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, even Portugal, but Greece; do they actually do anything? Is anything created there? Do the Greek actually work? I've been on vacation there a few times, and i've never seen people so lazy; we went into restaurants and actually had to literally kick the waiters to serve us; they were annoyed that customers came in.

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When I read the first half of your post I first had to laugh because I thought it was ridiculously insulting and simplifying. However, reading the part about the waiter, I quickly realized that I made the exact same experiences on my Corfu vacation years ago. The best thing was this: Our hotel had free coffe till 4pm. We ordered coffee at 3:59 or something like that. The waitress starts making coffee, but stops all the sudden. Sais "it's 4pm, no more coffee" and pures the coffee powder back into the container. We were just speechless.

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