> We don't have race and gender equality anywhere, and the one place that has it less is probably the US (see incarceration rates for blacks for instance) The

> We don't have race and gender equality anywhere, and the one place that has it less is probably the US (see incarceration rates for blacks for instance) The US is not a paragon of racial or gender equality (not is any other modern Western society, for that matter), but it is not demonstrably worse than Ancient Rome. Our common perceptions of Roman history are shaped heavily by romanticized contemporary depictions which downplay the exteme aspects of their culture (except in a few cases so as to exoticize it).