>But it's a very deep confusion to take
>the German and English imperialist scholars appropriation of a genuinerly
>multicultural civilization as a "white" heritage at face value. Of course
>the multiculturalism and syncretism of the ancient world offers cold
>comfort to nationalists of any stripe.
>
Indeed.
I'm still looking for someone who can tell me whether or not Cicero really did say that the Britons were too stupid to even make good slaves...
Brad DeLong