Quake42
Warrior Princess
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You know, while I study (mainly British) history, it never occurs to me to wonder what colour the actors are . I guess a lot of Spaniards are at least part African because of the Moors.
While there may have been some hundreds of African males retiring to Britannia, they w
I personally don't think colour of skin is any more important than colour of hair, but that doesn't mean I think all cultures are of the same value.
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I agree. And there would no doubt have been some African legionaries stationed in Roman Britain. What I don’t believe however is that the mixed race family depicted in the picture was a fair representation of a *typical* family in Roman Britain, which was how the BBC had captioned it.
In itself it’s a small point but it is a good example of the current trend to rewrite history to suit contemporary fads. See also descriptions of historical women who pretended to be male in order to access professions closed to them because of their sex as “transgender”. Or claims that past geniuses suffered from Aspergers, or dyslexia, or ADHD or whatever the latest fashionable syndrome is.
Whoever controls the present controls the past etc. We do need to be alert to attempts to rewrite history to suit contemporary sensibilities and to call it out when we see it.