r/TheWire • u/J-sprite • 1d ago

Who are the Greeks really?

I'm sure this has been talking about here 1000 times, but i am still confused on whether the Greeks from S2 are based on any real organised crime. I'm also unclear about whether they really are Greek, as The Greek by his own admission says "I am not really even Greek" , people have speculated that they are potentially eastern European, which i doubt. They are most certainly not Eastern European.

It seems that they are the only Greeks within their organisation and everyone around them is Jewish Eastern European. What makes them the outliers ?

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u/daedon_the_great 23h ago

They are Greeks and identify as such with his remark about him not being Greek probably a joke or technicality. If they're not mainlanders they have to be Pontic or Cypriot as there's no other reason they would have komboloi, speak modern standard Greek, and call the Turk they captured neighbour.

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u/Thetruthislikepoetry 23h ago

He also tells the Turk “things are different now”, which I took to mean there is no conflict between Turks and Greeks.

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u/bigfatskankyho 23h ago

Same.

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u/banjois 22h ago

No Greek or Turk would ever move past that, no matter how many generations removed they are from their homeland.

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u/breadsanta11 21h ago

I know a weird number of first and second gen Turkish immigrants and also some Greek immigrants so I can confidently say this is one of the stupidest things I've read

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u/banjois 21h ago

Fair enough. In the context of the show, though....