It's almost as if the Romans were a colonizing powers who spread their culture and influence across the world, influencing everyone they came into contact with- and by what standard is Western Europe not a legitimate cultural inheritor of the Greeks? They were ruled by Romans, who themselves saw themselves as inheritors of the Greeks and obsessed with. Europe adapted much of its language, culture, and religion from there. And it's not like western Europe just stopped being influenced by ancient greek philosophy as soon as the empire fell. Their philosophy and state of affairs is the intellectual bedrock behind the entire enlightenment for crying out loud. Rediscovering and applying the works of people like Socrates, Plato, Aristotles, and so on. is what eventually set in motion everything from the scientific method to modern day representative democracy. Western culture as we know it is steeped in Greco-Roman influence. Greco-Roman culture is the basis of European culture. Modern greek culture and the ancient greeks are about as close as the Romans and the Italians. Latin was used as the language of scholarship and education for centuries after its fall, Greco-Romance is a cultural inheritance for Europe. It has nothing to do with âwhite supremacist colonialismâ because white western europeans do have a claim to being cultural inheritors of the greek, and this claim is globally shared.
The Odyssey movie is not âa Greek story without Greek actorsâ thatâs about as big of a strawman as the Trojan horse. The Greeks and Romans are the poster children for colonialism.
i honest to god don't know why you guys are so pressed about me pointing out actual historical facts. "european culture" isn't real, we are and have always been a bunch of different cultures. if i started talking about "asian culture" you can tell how that would be really weird and reductive, right? "european culture" as a concept is an artifical creation of white supremacy, trying to paint all of that cultural past (but only the good ones. not the bad ones.) as an achievement of the white race as a whole. this is a fact.
ancient greece and rome were big cultural influences to most of those cultures, but that is not the same as actually being OUR constant history and cultural heritage. The Westâ˘ď¸ is as much of an inheritor of ancient greek culture as i am the inheritor of the ottoman empire. maybe even less. cultural influence â cultural heritage.
there's just no way anyone with a clear head is asking me "what makes western europeans less legitimate descendants of ancient greece than Actual Greeks". you have to be kidding me. i don't even know how to begin to explain this. water is wet. the sky is blue. greeks are descended from greeks.
