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Alberto Montafia's avatar

Actually, all your thoughts kind of remind me of, or rather seem to lead back to the original definition of the word barbarian: everything that’s not Greek (and later, Roman). Looks like the same attitude was there almost 2000 years later

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Emmet Penney's avatar

Perhaps unsurprisingly, both sides saw each other as "barbarians." https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521183448/

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