another favorite is when westerners uplifted the ottoman romans. they sent a german down to be king of greece, and he went to the spot where they estimated athens used to be. it was an albanian village. anyway the westerners didnt like the idea of calling them romans, so they taught them to call themselves greek. it was wildly successful, athens is the largest city in greece today built up from an albanian village, and a greek man would come in here and start shouting loud and brown as if the truth of top-down created nationality is an insult. as recently as the cyprus crisis the people there were still calling themselves roman when british troops asked