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I'm not Greek, so I don't know how biased or accurate this overview is (it seems to be pretty thorough though). I would love to hear everyones thoughts!

 
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tomipark said:
I'm not Greek, so I don't know how biased or accurate this overview is (it seems to be pretty thorough though). I would love to hear everyones thoughts!

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Hahahaha - I had a lot of fun watching this. I wasn't going to but the guy is actually pretty funny. Ok, on the whole everything he said was pretty accurate except for the ratio of women to men in the country. He claimed 60-65% women. That is plain ridiculous! It's actually about 50.8% which still means there are a lot more women to men in Greece. Other than that gross error, the rest was accurate and funny.
 
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Hahahaha - I had a lot of fun watching this. I wasn't going to but the guy is actually pretty funny. Ok, on the whole everything he said was pretty accurate except for the ratio of women to men in the country. He claimed 60-65% women. That is plain ridiculous! It's actually about 50.8% which still means there are a lot more women to men in Greece. Other than that gross error, the rest was accurate and funny.
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I'm glad you liked it!! I had a good laugh too, I like when people don't take things too seriously :)
 
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Hahahaha - I had a lot of fun watching this. I wasn't going to but the guy is actually pretty funny. Ok, on the whole everything he said was pretty accurate except for the ratio of women to men in the country. He claimed 60-65% women. That is plain ridiculous! It's actually about 50.8% which still means there are a lot more women to men in Greece. Other than that gross error, the rest was accurate and funny.
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This was a fun video, I agree. I don't know if this is a good source or even if it is accurate but this site claims there are 96.38 men per 100 women... https://knoema.com/atlas/Greece/topics/Demographics/Population/Male-to-female-ratio
 
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