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Ethnicity and racism in Cyprus : national pride and prejudice?
\"Investigating the relationship between ethnic pride and prejudice in the divided community of Cyprus, this book focuses on the ethnic stereotypes that Greek and Turkish Cypriot secondary school students develop of each other and other ethnic groups in Cyprus\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Past in Pieces: Belonging in the New Cyprus
On April 23, 2003, to the surprise of much of the world, the ceasefire line that divides Cyprus opened. The line had partitioned the island since 1974, and so international media heralded the opening of the checkpoints as a historic event that echoed the fall of the Berlin Wall. As in the moment of the Wall's collapse, cameras captured the rush of Cypriots across the border to visit homes unwillingly abandoned three decades earlier. It was a euphoric moment, and one that led to expectations of reunification. But within a year Greek Cypriots overwhelmingly rejected at referendum a United Nations plan to reunite the island, despite their Turkish compatriots' support for the plan. InThe Past in Pieces, anthropologist Rebecca Bryant explores why the momentous event of the opening has not led Cyprus any closer to reunification, and indeed in many ways has driven the two communities of the island further apart. This chronicle of the \"new Cyprus\" tells the story of the opening through the voices and lives of the people of one town that has experienced conflict. Over the course of two years, Bryant studied a formerly mixed town in northern Cyprus in order to understand both experiences of life together before conflict and the ways in which the dissolution of that shared life is remembered today. Tales of violation and loss return from the past to shape meanings of the opening in daily life, redefining the ways in which Cypriots describe their own senses of belonging and expectations of the political future. By examining the ways the past is rewritten in the present, Bryant shows how even a momentous opening may lead not to reconciliation but instead to the discovery of new borders that may, in fact, be the real ones.
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25-Hydroxyvitamin D Status and Its Predictors in Greek and Cypriot Subsets of the UK Biobank Cohort
Objective: Studies show a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in Greece and Cyprus despite an abundance of sunlight. We investigate the vitamin D status of Greeks and Cypriots living in the UK, where sunlight availability is more limited. Design: Cross-sectional study of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) using the UK Biobank cohort. Setting: The UK Biobank is a study of over 500K UK dwelling participants, with baseline measurements from 2006–2010. Participants: A sample of 325 Greek/Cypriot and 4158 British/Irish participants (aged 40–69 years). Results: The Greeks/Cypriots had statistically significantly lower median serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) (40.3 nmol/L) compared to the British/Irish (47.6 nmol/L). Eleven percent of British/Irish and 22.8% of Greeks/Cypriots had serum 25(OH)D < 25 nmol/L. Being exposed to summer sunlight for >30 min/d, as well as having a blood draw in summer or autumn, was statistically significantly associated with lower odds of 25 (OH))D < 50 nmol/L. Living in Scotland, having a winter blood draw, and not using a vitamin D-containing supplement were associated with increased odds of 25(OH)D < 50 nmol/L. Ethnicity was not a predictor of 25(OH)D < 50 nmol/L after confounder adjustment (Greek/Cypriot OR = 1.18 (95% CI 0.85, 1.63; British/Irish OR = 1.0). Conclusions: UK dwelling Greeks/Cypriots have a higher prevalence of vitamin D deficiency (<25 nmol/L) compared to the British/Irish population, but evidence from the literature is mixed as to whether they have a higher prevalence than when living in their country of origin. Public health interventions are required to improve 25(OH)D status in UK ethnic minority groups.
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Knowledge, attitudes and behaviours regarding antibiotics use among Cypriot university students: a multi-disciplinary survey
Background
The present study aims to investigate the knowledge and attitudes towards antibiotics among students studying medicine, dentistry, and pharmacy at the Near East University in Northern Cyprus. The influence of personality characteristics on antibiotic use were also evaluated, in order to identify predictors of antibiotic misuse.
Methods
Students were enrolled in the study during the 2020–2021 academic year. Study participants were asked to complete an online questionnaire that measured their knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) towards antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance. The KAP of students from the three faculties were compared using Kruskall-Wallis H statistics, Mann-Whitney U statistics, and Spearman’s rho. The influence of personality traits on the propensity to use antibiotics without a prescription, as well as their attitudes and knowledge of antibiotic use and misuse, were also investigated.
Results
In total, 314 students completed the survey, 52% of which were female. The mean age of the students was 20.5 years. The results showed that among the different disciplines, medical students were significantly more knowledgeable about pharmacological agents, compared to dentistry and pharmacy students, while pharmacy students were more knowledgeable about the effectiveness of antibiotics against different pathogenic microorganisms. All student groups were aware of how antibiotic resistance develops and their role as healthcare personnel in implementing measures against resistance. Appropriate antibiotic use among the student community correlated with study year, highlighting the importance of knowledge and education in the prevention of antibiotic resistance. Personality traits were found to be a contributing factor in students’ tendency to use antibiotics without a prescription.
Conclusion
This study demonstrates the importance of conveying knowledge about antimicrobials in the education programmes of future dentists, pharmacists and physicians.
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Native, Cosmopolitan, or Cypriot? Identity Development and Sense of Belonging Among International School Students in Cyprus
Cyprus is a culturally diverse island where people of different nationalities, ethnicities, religions, and social status have learned to live together. This phenomenon can be observed in Cyprus'international schools, where the superdiversity of the Cypriot society comes together and overlaps; and where students enter a 'third space' created at the interstices cf society, that is non-native and non-host. In this paper, we explore these students'sense of belonging to both their host (Cyprus) and heritage cultures, and the role played by international schools in the development cfthe two. The sense of belonging, as well as its challenges which go hand in hand, are important aspects cf social integration and provide insights into how individuals relate to their environment and whether they feel socially connected or disconnected from it. This is especially important in the context of Cyprus because of the increasing number of long-term migrants who consider Cyprus their 'home', and who create their own cultural and social space on the island.
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Calling the Big Brother: Turkish Cypriot Vulnerability and the Geopolitics of Kin-State Intervention
This article explores the development of minority and kin-state relations during times of conflict and transition, focusing on the interaction between the Turkish Cypriot ethnic minority and its kin-state Turkey from 1950 to 1974. The study challenges common perceptions that small and vulnerable minorities lack autonomous and effective agency and illustrates the significance of geopolitical drives for kin-state support. The Turkish Cypriot mobilization in the period under investigation provides proof of the effectiveness of minorities mobilizing kin-state support as a means of empowering their domestic security status. The study shows that an accurate grasp of geopolitical correlations, combined with goal-persistence and the willingness to co-opt, have assisted the Turkish Cypriot minority’s bid to entangle Turkey’s geostrategic interests in Cyprus. Essentially, the coupling of Turkish Cypriot calls for protection with Turkey’s broader geostrategic objectives, motivated a relationship of mutual strategic empowerment for the weak ethnic minority and its powerful kin-state. Yet the long-term incongruity of security objectives has significantly reduced the minority’s autonomous agency, inaugurating a new chapter of vulnerability.
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Extended intergroup contact in frozen conflicts
How can ethnic reconciliation be achieved in conflict settings where populations are physically separated? We address this question by examining the role of \"extended contact\"—a form of indirect contact which entails learning about the contact experiences of others—in the context of Cyprus's frozen conflict. We field a survey experiment in order to test two pathways through which extended contact works: (1) by helping build a common identity; and (2) by activating empathy. We find that our treatments are associated with greater trust in the outgroup and greater support for cross-ethnic interaction, but only among segments of the population that are initially less favorable toward reconciliation.
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