HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2025 03:08:28 JST

#Roman empire unusually inclusive? Or even a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic civilization? 👉None of that seems very likely.👈

"Romans did have their own ideas of race: their greatest poet Vergil once called his people “the toga-ed race,” the people who wear a toga. Roman poets and orators constantly ridiculed the strangeness of other peoples,..."

In the ancient #Democracies, #Race was not #Genetic, but #Cultural and could be appropriated:

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