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Helen of Scandinavia
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Race wasn't even a concept back then, and people weren't segregated based on looks.
It is more different and regional than pigment oriented. It would be more like my Scottish buddy who fucking HATES glasweigians and couldn't give two fucks about your skin color.
I guess. In the modern world we learn to pick up on the small on average differences between ethnicities that have had families live I uncertain climates for hundreds or thousands of years. But the thibgs white supremacists are projecting onto the past weren't even around until colonial days. Helen could have looked tan, it's probably most likely, but she also could have looked black. We really don't know for sure. You can look up the history of race. It used to just be nationality. race was not even a concept. Maybe you noticed some people had darker skin. Or some regions had people with darker skin on average. But people still migrated in the ancient world.
This is true. People were prejudiced, of course, but the concept of racism specifically, as opposed to ethnic tribalism, is comparatively modern. Don’t forget there were white slaves and black emperors of Rome, etc. Skin color is a modern obsession.
Black emperors? I don't think so.
Really? People have always put other people in ‘boxes’. Even apes do it.
Racism is nothing more than tribalism, but in a bigger "tribe".
The mentality has existed since we were apes living in caves, and that is where it should stay.
It does not belong in a civilized society.