• vga@sopuli.xyz
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    No culture is 100%, but we in Europe mostly share a foundational Greco-Roman philosophy and the values of Christianity and Enlightenment.

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        2 days ago

        Opposing things sure, but “totally opposing”? I don’t think so. They have tempered each other, not invalidated.

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          Ah yes, European history, famously full of compromise and tempering. /s

          Edit: I guess what I’m saying is, each of those stages fed the neighboring one to, like, lions or guillotines. It wasn’t really an additive, growing process, and classical Roman culture is a lot more like Chinese culture than modern European culture, in some ways.

          You might as well add in the bronze age cannibals and Neanderthals as well, at that rate.

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      foundational Greco-Roman philosophy

      You mean the one that was gone until it returned from the Islamic world?

      and the values of Christianity

      Uh-huh Palestine isn’t in Europe, last I checked.