One of the great mysteries of European history in my eyes is the complete reversal in character between the ancient Romans and medieval or modern Italians.
The Romans were very organised, disciplined, serious, rather stern and stoic, military-minded, cared little about family ties (they frequently adopted people unrelated to them or murdered their blood relatives), and were unusually ready to sacrifice themselves for the common good of their nation (as legionaries).
The Italians are just the opposite in all these respects. They are possibly the least organised Europeans, among the least disciplined. They are fun-loving hedonists. They have made terrible soldiers ever since the Middle Ages (Italians haven't won a single foreign battle in history, except in Libya and Ethiopia where their army far outnumbered the locals in number and fire power). Italians attach a lot of importance to family relations, and often place loyalty to family and friends above that of society or the whole nation. One of the main problems of modern Italy is tax fraud, because people don't feel enough solidarity with other Italians.
>They are fun-loving hedonists. Romans practically invented orgies
Christopher Perry
Okay, but who cares?
Andrew Wood
>christianity >Italy was never united since the roman empire >fucking German divide it again with fucking Holy Roman Empire >than arab invasion in the south, Longobards take the North, then Normans take the south >then again French take the north, Spanidiard the south
>unification happened >North Italians genocide the south Italians >hate beertween North Italian and Southerns
Samuel Nguyen
Their inner spirit and blood survived in middel Italy and northern iberia... the rest where germanized.
We will be arabized as well, after a high culture transvaluates to civilization, the birth rates decline, a circle of decadence begins... Authoritarian leaders conquer the power and replace the money dominance with violent dominance, they try to revert the situation but fail, and eventually the ethnic composition of that civilization is bred-out of existence. We, western europeans, will get slavized when our faustian civilization collapsed, and us, slavized europeans, will develop a new russian culture ( whom is not european as arabic magic culture is not persian)
Isaiah Price
You know she's actually very pale skinned and almost redhair irl? Would've been better if she kept her normal look.
Oliver Howard
She looks very Greek without all the California BS on.
Ryan Williams
Do you really want an Irish person to teach your history? Because I'll embarrass you here in front of your internet friends.
Elijah Allen
>How di Romans turn into Italians? The discovery of Murrica, and with it, the invention of tomatoes. Tomatoes changed us radically, in the DNA. No Italian can possibly live without tomatoes for more than a couple days.
John Williams
>No Italian can possibly live without tomatoes for more than a couple days. Take your shitty tomato sauce back. We don't want it.
Hunter Brooks
He said something wrong?
Carson Sullivan
Italians discovered romance. Romance became more importance than everything else.
Antony and Cleopatra is a parable for how the Roman Empire collapsed because the romantic impulse displaced the old stoic and military virtues that had driven the rise of Rome from a republic to an empire.
Parker Ortiz
I am colorblind, so your flag might be Italian as well, who cares, this country became the opportunism shit hole since ww2 when partisans and "liberators" started mass murder to bring back (((freedom)))
Daniel Smith
>How did Romans turn into Italians?
Does anyone on Sup Forums read a fucking book? Like seriously.
Nothing you discussed can be substantiated by literature, you literally are talking shit.
Wyatt Miller
Multiculturalism.
Evan Martinez
>How did Romans turn into Italians? They imported a load of black Gladiators and were cucked and fucked into Italians and have been brown half European wankers ever since.
Zachary Gray
You Irish son if of bitch!
Ryan Bell
by letting in forign invaders and then mixing with the jews, arabs, and africans that invaded their country. This is why italians arnt white.
Xavier Martinez
>Nothing you discussed can be substantiated by literature, you literally are talking shit. Check'd, welcome to nu-pol, the Golden Age of reddit and 12 year old posting.
Jose Howard
>ITS NOT A BOOK SO IT DIDNT HAPPEN >REEEEEE >STOP SAYING THINGS I DONT LIKE This is literally what you sound like Problem is more people have already agreed with his assessment in this thread than just you on your ones disagreeing with him So either you’re wrong or everyone else is
What is it, hmm?
Sebastian Martinez
Barbarian invasions 'n shit.
Nathaniel Lee
Okay so what are you/he basing this course in Roman history on, anyway? Did you live through it?
>So either you’re wrong or everyone else is This being Sup Forums the only thing they are right about is Jews and blacks. The rest is retarded we-wuzzing
Jack Anderson
WRONG!!!!!.... you forgot the MOB the best organized ,successful group/system, it took over America and still evolves and survives!!!
Brayden King
Ariana Grande is so beautiful.
Luis Ross
Was he fighting them off with his dick or actually multitasking?
