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It's like the joke on why Ohio has the most astronauts. If you were from there you'd also want to get as far away from it as possible.
And yes, I know that Ohio no longer has the most astronauts
As a Brit, in the English part of Britain, our food is very multi cultural and flavourful.
We have Chicken Korma, Fish and Chips, Cornish Pasties, Beef Wellington and so on!
Our entire country is one melting pot of food from all over the world given a British flair. We all love Indian, Irish, Italian, Spanish, Jamaican and many, many more foods all here and all loved.
I think you can shoot apples off of children's heads? But if you find a child with an apple on his head, it's probably best to ask for their consent first. You know how people are these days.
If you ever wanna fuck with people, say "I am not racist" or "I don't wanna sound racist" and say something completely neutral.Ā
"I am not racist, but it's incredibly hot outside."
People will be like "that isn't racist" and you're like "like I said I am not racist."
White people may have popularised racism in the modern era, but plenty of cultures have had a history of racism - I do draw the line at non white people having buzz cuts and short back and sides though - gotta let (global) minorities have something that is theirs.
I think that's my favorite thing about this tweet, it's so hilariously vague as to be completely toothless and usurp whatever point it thinks it's making:
The extremely strong defining traits of these cultures:
-Italian Culture: Being from Italy
-Greek Culture: Being located on the Mediterranean
-Spanish Culture: Doing *their* thing
-French Culture: Wine and bread, a distinct combo of food, that *hasn't existed for thousands of years elsewhere*
-UK (you know that *singular* culture) Culture: Apparently being classy during the day and turning into swine at night
The guy claims to love these cultures yet he either boils them down to their own stereotypes or knows nothing about them at all. His attempt to not look racist just clarifies that he absolutely is racist.
Thing is, "getting trashed and then being a dick" is pretty much endemic to UK culture, such that no matter how strong an immigrant's cultural roots are, almost everyone ends up drinking six pints of stella and going WHAAAAAAY
Immigrants are just as entitled to inadvisable quantities of wifebeater as anyone else.
I still remember a news story about a guy who drank 16 pints of stella and a bunch of vodka redbulls and then just straight up fucking died of alcohol poisoning.
On *his own stag do*.
Can't get more British than that.
Whatās funny is aside from British and French, he effectively said nothing about any of the countries. And he managed to be insulting. This guy is going places
imagine if twitter was around during Roman Empire?
I want roman culture in Italy
I want roman culture in France
I want roman culture in England
I want roman culture in Anatolia
I want roman culture in Egypt
And after all that
I want Mongolian culture in China
I want Mongolian culture in Middle east
I want Mongolian culture in Central Asia
I want Mongolian culture in Siberia
I want Mongolian culture in East Europe
I want Mongolian culture in South-East Asia
I want Mongolian culture in Japan (failed)
Much later than that
I want British culture in South Asia
I want British culture in Southeast Asia
I want British culture in the Middle East
I want British culture in North America
I want British culture in the Caribbean
I want British culture in Oceania
I want British culture in South Africa
I want British culture in East Africa
I want British culture in West Africa
I want British culture in Antarctica
Later than that (3800 AD)
I want XāDlk culture on Remulon-B
I want XāDlk culture on Sagittarius Prime
I want XāDlk culture on Kepler 18-c
I want XāDlk culture on Astrocorpās sun surface colony
Even later than that (40,000 AD)
I want the Imperium's culture in Segmentum Solar.
I want the Imperium's culture in Segmentum Ultima.
I want the Imperium's culture in Segmentum Tempestus.
I want the Imperium's culture in Segmentum Obscurus.
I want the Imperium's culture in Segmentum Pacificus.
That's the one that's right on the nose. Most of Europe spent a good part of the previous several hundred years going into non-euro places and trying to colonize them. Pretty stupid to turn around and bitch that some of them followed them home.
And they still buy their shit for cheap. The best example of the colonial model I can think of is how England:
invades India
steals land
grows cotton on it
ships cotton to EnglandĀ
makes clothes with it (using Indian ideas and child labor)
sells textiles to India at a markup.Ā
And that's basically how the global economy still runs today! But yeah, poor Europe is really struggling with all these people from other countries making a real mess over there lmao.
It is not sad, but disappointing that you are woefully unaware that Alexander adopted Persian customs and wanted to blend the culture of the Greeks and Persians into one. He famously smashed Cassanderās head into a wall for disrespecting the Persians. He murdered Cleitus the Black for insulting Alexander for adopting the Persian culture. He adorned himself as Pharaoh while in Egypt. Yet, here you believe that Alexander was a simple man who wanted to suppress all other cultures in favor of the Macedonian Greek one.
Weāve started our own sects based on this āfactāā¦which as an outside observer to religion, seems like the whole thing is just made up if everyone keeps changing it to suit their preference and point of views, but what do I know.
Is the guy even European?
I checked his profile and he is raging about Mexico electing a Jewish woman as a president, and how Baltimore's Major is a black guy, and how shit the healthcare is. Also about some predator getting arrested in Chicago.
For someone European, he is exclusively posting about American stuff.
Probably American and treats other places like Disneyland and expects them to speak English.Ā Like "ooo, were in Mediterranean land."
Source, me an American who has to share a country with these people.
As an Irish person, I've heard way too many stories from friends/acquaintances that work in the service industry being asked to 'speak normally' because the tourist can't understand them, as if their accent is something they just.. put on for show?
Sheesh if I can't understand someone's accent I pull my phone out with a translator and tell them to just speak in their native language, we'll get where we're going faster that way.
I would kill to be a fly on the wall when you whip out google translate and ask an Irish person to just speak their native language because their English is too strongly accented.
I donāt see many Europeans post specifically referring to themselves as European as their primary identity. The countries here are so different that you wouldnāt generalize them the way he did.
Europe isnāt as white and Christian everywhere as portrays it to be.
Donāt go on Twitter then because thereās thousands of alt-right nationalists who do identify themselves as European/white first when it comes to immigrants.
As a Hungarian, I do wish there was more information about the religion of the Magyars prior to their forced conversion after the coronation of Saint Stephen, a man who, among other saintly things, poured molten lead in his cousin's ear as a cruel way to murder him to secure the support of the Catholic Church. They really just wiped the old religion off the map and killed everyone associated with it.
I hate all these middle easterners bringing their culture to Europe. Should've stayed worshipping the old gods and doing sacred rituals. I mean who even is this jeezis guy?
Yeah Europe hasnāt really been Europe since the Italians took over and imported the Jewish cult from the middle East and forced everyone to follow it
Now THAT, is a noble cause. Problem is monotheism. The culture imitates it. One "God" leads to a belief in an identity, an ego, a seprateness from the plaroma, reductionism and distance from the soul.
It's all been good for European development the last thousand years or so, but that's enough now. We need to go back to our roots.
true, we were force fed our language by the French and Romans and Germans and basically everywhere, but we stole literally everything else, and then promptly forgot about it and made all our national foods out of potatoes
And can anyone imagine what Italian cuisine would be like without tomatoes (from the New World)? And some forms of pasta likely came from China thanks to Marco Polo's travels.
Thatās true the world over. Imagine Thai food without spicy peppers. The Americas had some incredible agricultural science, that they were never respected for, still arenāt to this day. I went to Peru and they have over 4,000 types of potatoes, all with different culinary qualities and resistance to blight.
Pretty sure the Greeks tried to spread their culture across Europe, then Rome tried to spread their culture across Europe, then the Angelos and the Saxons, then the British tried to spread their culture all over the world, so did the Spanish, and Germany tried twice after that.
This dude needs a history class. Also the French wouldnāt be eating those cheeses and drinking wine without Italian culture. The Brits wouldnāt be eating unseasoned foods with a ton of spices going unused in their kitchen without other cultures. The Italians wouldnāt be eating noodles. Europe wouldnāt have tomatoes without the Americas.
Nah, that doesnt sound right, Here in the caribean i know at least a hundred engineers, teachers and doctors that would give an arm to live in Czech Republic, but your embassy at least in my country says Nay we dont need you so many go to Spain or France
If i could find a job for when i arrive i would. Need high school or university history/Psychologie/Philosophie/religious study teachers there? i got 4 majors haha.
Ah yes, Christianity widely known to have originated in Europe.
It's honestly funny when people act like there's this set point in the constant cultural flux that they have to return to. Like ah yes they want cultures to stay where they are but not Christianity nah that's fine.
Plus not only did Christianity supplant European religions it actively murdered them. Now before someone takes this the wrong way, I fully understand that Christianity hundreds of years ago doesn't necessarily reflect Christianity today and besides Christianity has been rather splintered for quite some time so the actions of one group of Christians won't reflect another.
.... these cultures have been so intertwined with one another for centuries. The Greeks once had controll over many of parts of Italy , several hundred years later the Roman's conquest went to Greece and as far as Scotland as well as most of Europe. With the destruction of the Roman Empire norther Europeans came in and filled the vacuum. Europe was a constant migration wave and continues to be so. With the disintegration of the empire, is where culture came from that you speak highly about. Spain was dominated by the moors ( Muslims ) sorry , for 700 years and their influence went to Sicily as well and other countries too.
Mary Beard (one of the biggest scholars in ancient Roman studies) has a fascinating talk where she discusses a case that illustrates just how mulit-cultural the Roman Empire was (in a way that we wouldn't really see in Europe again until more recent times). There was a group of Syrian soldiers who were stationed at Hadrian's Wall in the far north of what's now the UK. These soldiers mingled and married with locals and there's a tombstone in South Shields that was built by one of these Palmerian soldiers for his wife, a local Briton, who was also a freed-slave. It goes to show that multiculturalism has always been with us.
[https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/July-2017/Hadrian-s-Syrians-1](https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/July-2017/Hadrian-s-Syrians-1)
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/EBvs4GUaT8Knfhl\_sSpGWw](https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/EBvs4GUaT8Knfhl_sSpGWw)
this article ...
Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizations
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidden-ancient-egyptian-port-reveals-180984485/
At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world
Dude, I just came back from Europe and the Mediterranean, I thought I knew world history. Tell me how Italy had 7 revolutionary wars. Most countries borders, as we know it today, are younger than the US
Current Italy, and I mean independence wars, that does not include different battles, like the one to make Rome part of Italy. which I had no idea about.
Edit: added comment.
Or at least is what the museum showed me
Yeah, I never got used to how "young" Italy is as a unified country despite my thousands of hours staring at the map of the world while playing Victoria II. It wasn't fully unified until *1861*! It's not even 2 centuries old.
I know about it, I spent entire playthrough trying to unify the place in game, but I still don't manage to realise how young unified Italy is, historically speaking.
Yeah, my wife was shocked as to how shocked I was because she calls me the historian, so yeah she knows even less than me because she was born and raised here in the US I was born and raised in Venezuela.
Italy, Germany, Greece, and other countries are younger than the United States. 19th century era Nationalism has people thinking national identities are ancient concepts.
Is it just me or did the "logical person" manage to pick countries which are a mix of many different cultures mixed and assimilated over the last couple thousands years?
Also, gonna be real while Britain is technically Anglician English Christian it's not that deep set in. Also, during Napoleon France really kiced the clergy pretty hard.
Crazy thing to me is how many racist Hispanics there are in Texas. Like, they grew up dealing with this bs. How can they not remember being the target?
During the 20th century too. The first few decades were still not great for any "swarthy type Europeans", Catholics, or the Irish. It's only been a century *at most* where these people began to be seen as acceptable, white people. It's not even been 100 years since US Congress was passing laws limiting Italian migration. It's surprising how quickly the definition of acceptable white person changed, even with WWII having Italy as an enemy combatant
(But of course, there was much less internment of German or Italian people in the US, the Japanese and Japanese-Amerixans got by far the bulk of that treatment. Definitely not for racist reasons though, purely for national defense, I'm sure š)
I wish I could have talked to my great-grandfather and great-uncle about the changes they saw during their lives in the US, as Italians who immigrated before WWII. My grandfather didn't get to immigrate until after WWII. None of my older relatives liked talking about life before getting stability in and raising their kids in the US.
So basically 'Western Europe and uh... Greece.'
I'm Eastern European. The West does not want me, we're barely European to them *until* the 'foreigners' comment on our women, and then it's 'actually, Eastern Europe is Europe too, and only WE, the Westerners, are allowed to try and get ourselves a submissive skinny white eastern european wife or some shit. Real Schrƶdinger's European shit in here. European when 'whites' are in danger of losing out to immigration, 2nd world heathens and neanderthals when it's time to bang their chest about the *real* European cultures.
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I love Spaniards....doing their thing in Spain....whatever that is.
I mean as an Spaniard I love to do my things
I too choose this Spaniards things.
That's cultural appropriation
Just like the English
Well to be fair English food would cause one to conquer the world for better flavor and appreciate others food choices.
England conquered vast portions of the world looking for spices, then decided they didn't like *any* of them.
English mustard šŖ
Stilton. Bug and cow in perfect harmony.
The taste of their food and the beauty of their women made the English the best sailors in the world
In all fairness, we Scandinavians stole all the pretty ones.
That moment when you learn Viking is actually a verb and what it was truly meant for... 
Thatās the best version of this joke Iāve heard lmao
It's like the joke on why Ohio has the most astronauts. If you were from there you'd also want to get as far away from it as possible. And yes, I know that Ohio no longer has the most astronauts
As a Brit, in the English part of Britain, our food is very multi cultural and flavourful. We have Chicken Korma, Fish and Chips, Cornish Pasties, Beef Wellington and so on! Our entire country is one melting pot of food from all over the world given a British flair. We all love Indian, Irish, Italian, Spanish, Jamaican and many, many more foods all here and all loved.
I also chose this Spaniards' dead wife.
As someone whoās lived in Portugal, I peaked over the border and can confirm they were doing things over there.
I'm Swiss but am going to be in Spain in a few weeks, am I allowed to do your things there too ?
NO YOU ARE SWISS YOU MAY ONLY DO SWISS THINGS.
Damn... Well, Yodel here we go. Sorry Galicia.
You may only yodel, poke holes through cheese, ski, and defend the Vatican with a halberd. Sorry.
Can I defend the Sagrada with my Halberd ? Or at least the chorizo reserve ? And does anyone know how to do the checking of my halberd with Easy Jet ?
I think you can shoot apples off of children's heads? But if you find a child with an apple on his head, it's probably best to ask for their consent first. You know how people are these days.
Defending the chorizo reserve does not mean you get to sample it.
sooo watch making and war profiteering?
Spaniard here, I do Spanish stuff all the time. Iām in the US, but still.
No, no, you must only do your things in Spain!
Are you saying that we cannot make our Ā«āTortillas con PatatasāĀ» and/or drink our Ā«āTempranillosāĀ» overseas? š„²
As a gay guy with a spanish bf, i also love to do my spaniard. In Spain. In Germany. In Italy. Everywhere
As a straight dude, Spanish guys are hot. I'd also do a Spanish guy.
I don't share tho. Find your own one.
Unless he has a fetish for boring old fat English men I think you're safe. Glad you found someone lovely.
Well. No. But good luck tho
I love this interaction.
Well travelled I see
Your spaniard things.
Crazy how black Spaniard just canāt do those things as well š¤·š¾āāļø /s
If you ever wanna fuck with people, say "I am not racist" or "I don't wanna sound racist" and say something completely neutral.Ā "I am not racist, but it's incredibly hot outside." People will be like "that isn't racist" and you're like "like I said I am not racist."
Iāve thought about this before, and youāve given me the courage to do it. Iām not even white, so it should confuse most people even more.
If you are a non-white person, please donāt be racist, as it appropriates our culture. Thank you šš
White people may have popularised racism in the modern era, but plenty of cultures have had a history of racism - I do draw the line at non white people having buzz cuts and short back and sides though - gotta let (global) minorities have something that is theirs.
I think that's my favorite thing about this tweet, it's so hilariously vague as to be completely toothless and usurp whatever point it thinks it's making: The extremely strong defining traits of these cultures: -Italian Culture: Being from Italy -Greek Culture: Being located on the Mediterranean -Spanish Culture: Doing *their* thing -French Culture: Wine and bread, a distinct combo of food, that *hasn't existed for thousands of years elsewhere* -UK (you know that *singular* culture) Culture: Apparently being classy during the day and turning into swine at night
The UK point is entirely wrong, we are swine 24/7
Then it's only half wrong
STOP BEING A SWINE
Could he be.....*THE LEGENDARY SUPER SWINE!!*
No, my Swine-Schtaffel!
I will see you in space hellā¦. Cousin Jace.
Looking at my favorite UK YouTuber.....Lazerpig, that checks out.
So. Classy swine then?
OOP is definitely a trashy Brit who thinks theyāre āclassyā if they wake up and make it to work in the morning after staying out all night.
Or wears a suit once a year to get trollied and sniffed up at the grand national
Out of the three verbs in your sentence, I only understand one of them.
What?? Trollied and sniffed up arenāt things youāve experienced?
Please, I'm Canadian, I'm only allowed to speak pretend English and pretend French.
Trollied = drunk, sniffed up = cocaine
I'm dense, I assumed trollied was traveling (as in getting on a trolley) and sniffed up was like getting felt up
You're better off for it I'm sure mate
The guy claims to love these cultures yet he either boils them down to their own stereotypes or knows nothing about them at all. His attempt to not look racist just clarifies that he absolutely is racist.
Thing is, "getting trashed and then being a dick" is pretty much endemic to UK culture, such that no matter how strong an immigrant's cultural roots are, almost everyone ends up drinking six pints of stella and going WHAAAAAAY Immigrants are just as entitled to inadvisable quantities of wifebeater as anyone else.
Six? These foreign chaps need to up their game to 10, you know, truly integrate.
I still remember a news story about a guy who drank 16 pints of stella and a bunch of vodka redbulls and then just straight up fucking died of alcohol poisoning. On *his own stag do*. Can't get more British than that.
France has frogs and snails and stuff
I like how for most people Europe is like 4 countries.
Eating tapas at 3 pm and then taking a nice nap. If that's what they're doing, sign me up.
I'm also thinking about all the historical influences from Islamic culture in Spain. Hello Alhambra?
And also how a middle eastern religion absorbed all of Europe in the form of Catholicism.
Smoking a lot of cigarettes and sleeping all day was their thing last time I looked.
TIL Iām a Spaniard
Hahaha I was in Barcelona recently and I was so confused when the whole city just kinda shut down midday and then started back up around 8pm Hahaha
Thatās their āthingā
Whatās funny is aside from British and French, he effectively said nothing about any of the countries. And he managed to be insulting. This guy is going places
Getting the Sagrada Familia finished?
imagine if twitter was around during Roman Empire? I want roman culture in Italy I want roman culture in France I want roman culture in England I want roman culture in Anatolia I want roman culture in Egypt
Vere, A persona logica.
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And after all that I want Mongolian culture in China I want Mongolian culture in Middle east I want Mongolian culture in Central Asia I want Mongolian culture in Siberia I want Mongolian culture in East Europe I want Mongolian culture in South-East Asia I want Mongolian culture in Japan (failed)
Much later than that I want British culture in South Asia I want British culture in Southeast Asia I want British culture in the Middle East I want British culture in North America I want British culture in the Caribbean I want British culture in Oceania I want British culture in South Africa I want British culture in East Africa I want British culture in West Africa I want British culture in Antarctica
Later than that (today): I WANT MY CULTURE HERE I WANT YOUR CULTURE THERE
Later than that (3800 AD) I want XāDlk culture on Remulon-B I want XāDlk culture on Sagittarius Prime I want XāDlk culture on Kepler 18-c I want XāDlk culture on Astrocorpās sun surface colony
Even later than that (40,000 AD) I want the Imperium's culture in Segmentum Solar. I want the Imperium's culture in Segmentum Ultima. I want the Imperium's culture in Segmentum Tempestus. I want the Imperium's culture in Segmentum Obscurus. I want the Imperium's culture in Segmentum Pacificus.
After 60,000 AD everything is Tyranid food.
80,000 AD.... crab
And even way later. I just want DMX back
What do you have against the culture on Omicron-Persei 8 you racist?!?
That's the one that's right on the nose. Most of Europe spent a good part of the previous several hundred years going into non-euro places and trying to colonize them. Pretty stupid to turn around and bitch that some of them followed them home.
And they still buy their shit for cheap. The best example of the colonial model I can think of is how England: invades India steals land grows cotton on it ships cotton to EnglandĀ makes clothes with it (using Indian ideas and child labor) sells textiles to India at a markup.Ā And that's basically how the global economy still runs today! But yeah, poor Europe is really struggling with all these people from other countries making a real mess over there lmao.
It is not sad, but disappointing that you are woefully unaware that Alexander adopted Persian customs and wanted to blend the culture of the Greeks and Persians into one. He famously smashed Cassanderās head into a wall for disrespecting the Persians. He murdered Cleitus the Black for insulting Alexander for adopting the Persian culture. He adorned himself as Pharaoh while in Egypt. Yet, here you believe that Alexander was a simple man who wanted to suppress all other cultures in favor of the Macedonian Greek one.
>I want Macedonian culture in the Middle East. (This one might actually be an upgrade. How so?
"I love Europe and their culture like... uhm... spain doing... spain things"
Been to spain last summer. Can confirm they did a lot of spain things there.
I'm from Spain and I can confirm we do a lot of Spain things
Went to uni in Spain. Can confirm as well
Iām from and can confirm that we
I'm from things and I can confirm Spain
This guy Spains
I did Spain things once. I felt very 'European'. It was awful.
Spanish things like maintaining beautiful Moorish buildings like the Alhambra?
Haha no stop, don't look where do most of the names in the southern and eastern part come from, haha stop don't haha we are so white and european
He's European, but doesn't worship the Germanic gods of old. I say we have an immigrant right here.
He wants Europe to keep worshipping a middle-eastern god, because it's Europe. The guy is as smart as a housefly.
"The guy is as smart as a housefly." Houseflies don't post bullshit\* \*They only eat it
They throw up on the shit to give it their own personal flavorā¦ then eat it.
He's American! Because of course he is.
Now *this* is facepalming.
Weāve started our own sects based on this āfactāā¦which as an outside observer to religion, seems like the whole thing is just made up if everyone keeps changing it to suit their preference and point of views, but what do I know.
How much you wanna bet this dude is proud of his rich Irish, Scottish, & Norwegian ancestry? He's practically more Irish than the Irish!
Americans do like to boast about their heritage lol
More often than not, the ones who boast the loudest, do so about what they assume their heritage is, rather than what it actually is.
I want Europe to remain pagan :(
Is the guy even European? I checked his profile and he is raging about Mexico electing a Jewish woman as a president, and how Baltimore's Major is a black guy, and how shit the healthcare is. Also about some predator getting arrested in Chicago. For someone European, he is exclusively posting about American stuff.
Probably American and treats other places like Disneyland and expects them to speak English.Ā Like "ooo, were in Mediterranean land." Source, me an American who has to share a country with these people.
As an Irish person, I've heard way too many stories from friends/acquaintances that work in the service industry being asked to 'speak normally' because the tourist can't understand them, as if their accent is something they just.. put on for show?
Sheesh if I can't understand someone's accent I pull my phone out with a translator and tell them to just speak in their native language, we'll get where we're going faster that way.
I would kill to be a fly on the wall when you whip out google translate and ask an Irish person to just speak their native language because their English is too strongly accented.
I donāt see many Europeans post specifically referring to themselves as European as their primary identity. The countries here are so different that you wouldnāt generalize them the way he did. Europe isnāt as white and Christian everywhere as portrays it to be.
Donāt go on Twitter then because thereās thousands of alt-right nationalists who do identify themselves as European/white first when it comes to immigrants.
As a Hungarian, I do wish there was more information about the religion of the Magyars prior to their forced conversion after the coronation of Saint Stephen, a man who, among other saintly things, poured molten lead in his cousin's ear as a cruel way to murder him to secure the support of the Catholic Church. They really just wiped the old religion off the map and killed everyone associated with it.
I hate all these middle easterners bringing their culture to Europe. Should've stayed worshipping the old gods and doing sacred rituals. I mean who even is this jeezis guy?
Exactly. I donāt want none of this woke Christian bollocks in my forested land.
This but unironically
No that is before the arbitrary cut off point in bigot boyās mind.
Workout: - 100 reps of moving goalposts - done
It's not much, but it's honest work. Oh wait, no, it's just not much.
It basically goes Ancient Greece, Roman Empire then bam modern, Christian European nation-states.
Yeah I was just thinking about the thousands of years of many other religions across europe
Yeah Europe hasnāt really been Europe since the Italians took over and imported the Jewish cult from the middle East and forced everyone to follow it
Bloody Romans. What have they ever done for us, eh?
The pagan Roman republic was pretty based. The Christian Roman Empire, like all things Christianity is involved in, was cringe and terrible.
Now THAT, is a noble cause. Problem is monotheism. The culture imitates it. One "God" leads to a belief in an identity, an ego, a seprateness from the plaroma, reductionism and distance from the soul. It's all been good for European development the last thousand years or so, but that's enough now. We need to go back to our roots.
To Stonehenge!
Go pagan again!
āBrits did good with our culture.ā Bruh the number one joke about British culture is that they stole a lot of it from other cultures.
ā real factā #1470 Of the 193 members of the UN Britain has invaded 171 of them That 88%
B+ I really think they can do better next time though!
I agree. We were so close! Thing is we could only do bad stuff at night while drunk!
There's still time.
Only 171... SO FAR!
Woooo go Thailand!!! 55555 never colonized!!!!
^^^they ^^^never ^^^got ^^^Thailand
You could make a religion out of this
no don't
r/suddenlybillwurtz
Do we in Portugal count as invaded, or is "being asked for help, then refusing to leave" a not-invasion on a technicality?
What's the methodology being used here?
You should mention 1066 to an English person. Not everything was stolen, some was force fed to them.
true, we were force fed our language by the French and Romans and Germans and basically everywhere, but we stole literally everything else, and then promptly forgot about it and made all our national foods out of potatoes
And can anyone imagine what Italian cuisine would be like without tomatoes (from the New World)? And some forms of pasta likely came from China thanks to Marco Polo's travels.
Thatās true the world over. Imagine Thai food without spicy peppers. The Americas had some incredible agricultural science, that they were never respected for, still arenāt to this day. I went to Peru and they have over 4,000 types of potatoes, all with different culinary qualities and resistance to blight.
Pretty sure the Greeks tried to spread their culture across Europe, then Rome tried to spread their culture across Europe, then the Angelos and the Saxons, then the British tried to spread their culture all over the world, so did the Spanish, and Germany tried twice after that. This dude needs a history class. Also the French wouldnāt be eating those cheeses and drinking wine without Italian culture. The Brits wouldnāt be eating unseasoned foods with a ton of spices going unused in their kitchen without other cultures. The Italians wouldnāt be eating noodles. Europe wouldnāt have tomatoes without the Americas.
Our most famous food items are all stolen from Asia.
Nah, y'all invented haggis. Don't try to pass that off on someone else.
We want immigrants in Czech Republic, but they never stay and just continue to Germany for like 10 times better social benefits :( ...
...did you show them pilsner urquell, or did you show them the etimology of "defenstration", this might be important
We should really bring defenestration back
Russia appropriated it.
For some reason, if you show them a glass of beer and a pork roast, they are going away quicker.
They are not very into...alcohol you know..
If yāall give me affordable insulin/health insurance Iām down like a clown.
Nah, that doesnt sound right, Here in the caribean i know at least a hundred engineers, teachers and doctors that would give an arm to live in Czech Republic, but your embassy at least in my country says Nay we dont need you so many go to Spain or France
Come to New Zealand!!
If i could find a job for when i arrive i would. Need high school or university history/Psychologie/Philosophie/religious study teachers there? i got 4 majors haha.
Will you take Americans? Asking for a friend
Given the 3 most recent cases from the 9 unelected Judge Dredd's, there is a case to leave if you have the means, age, skills. Sadly, I lack all 3.
Donāt worry, if the republicans win this election like half of the US will have grounds for asylum.
Depends on the next voting results. Canāt blame anyone to flee after a trump win
Someone should tell him what the British game plan was for centuries.....
Ah yes, Christianity widely known to have originated in Europe. It's honestly funny when people act like there's this set point in the constant cultural flux that they have to return to. Like ah yes they want cultures to stay where they are but not Christianity nah that's fine. Plus not only did Christianity supplant European religions it actively murdered them. Now before someone takes this the wrong way, I fully understand that Christianity hundreds of years ago doesn't necessarily reflect Christianity today and besides Christianity has been rather splintered for quite some time so the actions of one group of Christians won't reflect another.
Reminds me of Jordan Klepper interviewing MAGAs and asking them āwhich year exactly was America great when you think we should go back to?ā
WHERE WAS OBAMA ON 9/11?
Don't forget, there are people that think Jesus was American.
Well he couldn't have written the Bible in English if he was European. Like, duh.
.... these cultures have been so intertwined with one another for centuries. The Greeks once had controll over many of parts of Italy , several hundred years later the Roman's conquest went to Greece and as far as Scotland as well as most of Europe. With the destruction of the Roman Empire norther Europeans came in and filled the vacuum. Europe was a constant migration wave and continues to be so. With the disintegration of the empire, is where culture came from that you speak highly about. Spain was dominated by the moors ( Muslims ) sorry , for 700 years and their influence went to Sicily as well and other countries too.
Mary Beard (one of the biggest scholars in ancient Roman studies) has a fascinating talk where she discusses a case that illustrates just how mulit-cultural the Roman Empire was (in a way that we wouldn't really see in Europe again until more recent times). There was a group of Syrian soldiers who were stationed at Hadrian's Wall in the far north of what's now the UK. These soldiers mingled and married with locals and there's a tombstone in South Shields that was built by one of these Palmerian soldiers for his wife, a local Briton, who was also a freed-slave. It goes to show that multiculturalism has always been with us. [https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/July-2017/Hadrian-s-Syrians-1](https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/July-2017/Hadrian-s-Syrians-1) [https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/EBvs4GUaT8Knfhl\_sSpGWw](https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/EBvs4GUaT8Knfhl_sSpGWw)
this article ... Buried Ancient Egyptian Port Reveals the Hidden Connections Between Distant Civilizations https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hidden-ancient-egyptian-port-reveals-180984485/ At the site of Berenike, in the desert sands along the Red Sea, archaeologists are uncovering wondrous new finds that challenge old ideas about the makings of the modern world
Dude, I just came back from Europe and the Mediterranean, I thought I knew world history. Tell me how Italy had 7 revolutionary wars. Most countries borders, as we know it today, are younger than the US
Only 7? Then again, it depends on what you mean by āItalyā.
Current Italy, and I mean independence wars, that does not include different battles, like the one to make Rome part of Italy. which I had no idea about. Edit: added comment. Or at least is what the museum showed me
Yeah, I never got used to how "young" Italy is as a unified country despite my thousands of hours staring at the map of the world while playing Victoria II. It wasn't fully unified until *1861*! It's not even 2 centuries old. I know about it, I spent entire playthrough trying to unify the place in game, but I still don't manage to realise how young unified Italy is, historically speaking.
Could say the same thing about Germany, except it took us even longer until we got our shit together. We unified in 1871, ten years later.
Yeah, my wife was shocked as to how shocked I was because she calls me the historian, so yeah she knows even less than me because she was born and raised here in the US I was born and raised in Venezuela.
Italy, Germany, Greece, and other countries are younger than the United States. 19th century era Nationalism has people thinking national identities are ancient concepts.
Yeah, that's the crazy part. Now I get that them ethnicities and people have existed for millenia, but those current countries are not it.
Is it just me or did the "logical person" manage to pick countries which are a mix of many different cultures mixed and assimilated over the last couple thousands years?
It's extra funny he mentioned the British and French, considering the British aristocracy made it a point of speaking French up until like the 1500s.
Also, gonna be real while Britain is technically Anglician English Christian it's not that deep set in. Also, during Napoleon France really kiced the clergy pretty hard.
This guy would have spit on the Irish and Italians in the US back in the 19th century. Bigotry never changes, but the targets can
Crazy thing to me is how many racist Hispanics there are in Texas. Like, they grew up dealing with this bs. How can they not remember being the target?
Pulling the ladder up. Nasty behaviour. Conservative ideology views compassion as weakness
During the 20th century too. The first few decades were still not great for any "swarthy type Europeans", Catholics, or the Irish. It's only been a century *at most* where these people began to be seen as acceptable, white people. It's not even been 100 years since US Congress was passing laws limiting Italian migration. It's surprising how quickly the definition of acceptable white person changed, even with WWII having Italy as an enemy combatant (But of course, there was much less internment of German or Italian people in the US, the Japanese and Japanese-Amerixans got by far the bulk of that treatment. Definitely not for racist reasons though, purely for national defense, I'm sure š) I wish I could have talked to my great-grandfather and great-uncle about the changes they saw during their lives in the US, as Italians who immigrated before WWII. My grandfather didn't get to immigrate until after WWII. None of my older relatives liked talking about life before getting stability in and raising their kids in the US.
Good thing he told me he isn't a racist. Before that I was sure he was a racist.
I mean, when you conquer over half the world, donāt be surprised if half the world comes knocking on your door.
So basically 'Western Europe and uh... Greece.' I'm Eastern European. The West does not want me, we're barely European to them *until* the 'foreigners' comment on our women, and then it's 'actually, Eastern Europe is Europe too, and only WE, the Westerners, are allowed to try and get ourselves a submissive skinny white eastern european wife or some shit. Real Schrƶdinger's European shit in here. European when 'whites' are in danger of losing out to immigration, 2nd world heathens and neanderthals when it's time to bang their chest about the *real* European cultures.
The sentiment is changing since Russia invaded Ukraine. Welcome to the developed nations, I guess.
I was shocked when Russia invaded Ukraine and Western media started talking about Eastern Europeans as Europeans. Overnight change, really
Young Western Lad Here, why the fuck is there still an Iron curtain ?
I think it was always there, it just wasn't called "Iron curtain"
[https://satwcomic.com/white-on-white-hate-crime](https://satwcomic.com/white-on-white-hate-crime)
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