jamalkandur wrote:Forte IV wrote:His nationality is Greek, his family is from Nigeria. It's the equivalent of a random guy saying he's American but Grandparents came from Portugal or something.
Not exactly, United States is the nation immigrants Greece is not a immigrant country what's more is not a immigrant friendly country, immigrants are unwelcome there, his family had to lived on the streets without food for years, nobody helped them or gave a job, even though he's born in Greece, they didn't provide any papers for him so he lived stateless until 18 years old, he self-learned basketball in playgrounds . After Greek Basketball Assosiation scouts discovered him, then all of sudden Greece gave him and his family citizenships. So definetelly Greece did not contribute much to help him to be a great athlete, the great genes were the reason. So whenever i hear the "greek" freak it's cringes me, he's not Greek he's 100% African.
From Wikipedia: "Like many other immigrants to Greece, his parents struggled to find work. Antetokounmpo and his older brother, Thanasis, helped out by hawking items such as watches, bags and sunglasses. In 2007 Antetokounmpo started playing basketball, For the first 18 years of his life Antetokounmpo was effectively stateless, having no papers from Nigeria or Greece..."
From New York Times: "He is known as the Greek Freak, a basketball player of such transcendent ability that he has become celebrated as the face of the country of his birth. Yet for most of his life growing up in Greece, Giannis Antetokounmpo was considered a foreigner. As the son of African immigrants, he was perpetually vulnerable to attacks by racist militants, and to threats of deportation to Nigeria, a country he had never visited."
Do you expect a financially troubled European country like Greece to grant citizenship and benefits to every immigrant who comes across its borders? They've had to be bailed while struggling to take care of their own citizens, much less the millions coming across the Mediterranean. Of course they're going to prioritize citizenship for people who are net positives for their economy; every single country does. There's a massive double standard here from people claiming he's African. If you want to separate people along ethnic origins rather than nationality, there are hundreds of millions of immigrants across Europe, the US, and Canada who stand to be rejected by their adopted countries. People have been working hard to blur those differences and move away from ethnic & racial tribalism, but this type of separatist rhetoric can ignite rapidly and have a disastrous effect on innocent immigrants who are just trying to integrate.
Well done sir!
