White nationalists and their ilk seem to have this romanticized view of Europe as this great inventor of everything from vacuum. Richard Spencer states that "To be white is to be a striver, a crusader, an explorer and a conqueror. We build, we produce, we go upward …"
And yet, them you look at history. You’ll find that many of the things that made Europe/the West great come from elsewhere. Gunpowder, paper and printing come from China. Algebra has roots in Babylon. Our number symbols come from India. Even our writing is Near-Eastern in origin. White nationalists note that "black" Africans didn’t invent their own writing, but Europeans didn’t either.
And not all Europeans in ancient times were like the Greeks and Romans, many were more tribal like the Celts, Germanics and Gauls.
And yet, them you look at history. You’ll find that many of the things that made Europe/the West great come from elsewhere. Gunpowder, paper and printing come from China. Algebra has roots in Babylon. Our number symbols come from India. Even our writing is Near-Eastern in origin. White nationalists note that "black" Africans didn’t invent their own writing, but Europeans didn’t either.
And not all Europeans in ancient times were like the Greeks and Romans, many were more tribal like the Celts, Germanics and Gauls.
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