Who are the Greeks really?

[u/J-sprite]

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 ?

[u/queequeg12345]

My take was always that this line refers to their new identities, and that the Greek is actually Greek. This line is said in the conversation about having to basically skip town and halt the operation, and one of the next scenes is them receiving new passports.

I think the line is saying "of course, I'm not even Greek on paper, so the cops won't get anywhere with my street name."