Danai Kokkinopoulou (Interview 2)
Interviewer(s):
Theo Xenophontos
Project:
Film as Mediator: Cultivating a Cypriot Canadian Community Audiovisual Media Archive
INTERVIEW LOCATION:
Zoom
LANGUAGE:
English
DATE:
December 8, 2022

Interview Summary:

Danai Kokkinopoulou was born in Geri, Cyprus in 2000. In 2017, she migrated to Canada for educational reasons. At the time of the interview, she was a Psychology student at York University.

Date and Location
December 8, 2022
Zoom
Interviewee(s)
Danai Kokkinopoulou (Interview 2)
Interviewer(s)
Theo Xenophontos
Languages
English
Reference ID
FAMREF008B
Project
Film as Mediator: Cultivating a Cypriot Canadian Community Audiovisual Media Archive
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Categories
Tags
Decades Referenced
Locations Referenced
Cyprus; Geri (Nicosia District); Panagia Chrysospiliotissa Church (Nicosia District); Kokkinotrimithia (Nicosia District); Kambos (Nicosia District); Nicosia; Limassol; Kyperounda (Limassol District); Troodos Mountains; Paphos; Canada; Toronto; York University; Serano Bakery (Pape Avenue); Keswick; Greece; Athens; Peloponnese; Crete; Egypt; The United Kingdom
Occupation(s)
At the time of the interview, she was a Psychology student at York University and worked part-time at Shoppers Drug Mart.
Parents Occupation(s)
Her mother used to work for Cyprus Airways.
Names Referenced
Anna Ellinas; George Kouvaros; Joanna Eleftheriou; Helen Power (née Xenophontos); Theodoros Xenophontos

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[00:01:57] How media & socializing helped her learn English

[00:04:07]The variations in accents among the diaspora

[00:04:59] Differences between Cypriot and Greek language

[00:07:22] Differences between village and city dialect

[00:10:50] Her grandmother working as a nurse in 1974

[00:12:07] The importance of social media

[00:14:09] Cypriot traditions and customs

[00:18:50] More details about August 15th

[00:23:36] How Cypriots view Greece and Greeks

[00:26:38] The link between politics and soccer in Cyprus

[00:28:33] Identifying as Greek Cypriot

[00:32:11] Discussing project themes

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