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The Western Roman Empire has nothing to do with "the West". I think it's fascinating that that's even suggested. I lived in Germany for a while. Germany is def
by marcus_holmes 8mo ago
The Western Roman Empire has nothing to do with "the West". I think it's fascinating that that's even suggested.
I lived in Germany for a while. Germany is definitely a part of "the West", have been the defining border with "the East" in the Cold War. Germans do not share a cultural viewpoint about liberty and security with the USA. So claiming that westerners "prefer liberty over security" while also including Germans (and others) in the definition of "the West" is absolutely erasing their culture.
- wredcoll 8mo ago> The Western Roman Empire has nothing to do with "the West". I think it's fascinating that that's even suggested. I got that bit from wikipedia, it amused me. As for germans, if they do not share such a viewpoint (and now I want evidence either way), the claim about the west is merely wrong, not "cultural erasure".
- watwut 8mo agoFrench have fairly serious differences against USA too.
- wredcoll 8mo agoI mean, at some level, every single human is different, at another level we're all the same. I'm not sure what we're proving here. The original claim was something about liberty and security and no one in this chain seems interested in bringing in any actual specifics about who thinks what where.