Zamanfou

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) This article may contain excessive or inappropriate references to self-published sources. Please help improve it by removing references to unreliable sources where they are used inappropriately. (June 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Zamanfou" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Greek. (Aug 2025) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline, revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Greek Wikipedia article at [[:el:Ωχαδερφισμός]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|el|Ωχαδερφισμός}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation. (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Zamanfou (Greek: ζαμανφού), also known as ochaderfismos (ωχαδερφισμός), is a widely accepted as prevalent attitude/approach to life in Greece that is nevertheless classed by some as a counterculture phenomenon, which involves social loafing as its principal characteristic.

The term is derived from the French phrase je m'en fous ("I don't give a damn"); the expression became known to Greeks before World War II, when French was the most common foreign language in Greece.^{[citation needed]} The associated term ochaderfismos derives from the Greek phrase for "oh brother!" (ωχ αδερφέ!, och aderfé!).

In popular culture

• "Zamanfou" is the title of a Greek song by Sakis Boulas, which has also been recorded in a hip-hop version by rapper Taraxias (featuring Boulas and Vasia Patrikarea).
• "Zamanfou" is the title of a Greek hip-hop song by rapper Eisvoleas.
• Zamanfou was the title of a Greek TV show by Annita Pania.

See also

• Social loafing
• Nihilism
• Cynicism
• Ethical egoism
• Apathy

References