med thread, this time with a little variation. "la pensée de midi" is an expression invented by albert camus. he, together with other "frères de soleil" like valéry, calvino, braudel, thought that nothing like "europe" in the current meaning ever existed, he rather felt his culture as essentially "mediterranean". the med civilization includes the ancient egypt, greece, rome, the western arab world, then italy, france, spain. it think they all have something in common , which i can't explain. i have images in my head like a brilliant, azure, calm sea, egyptian long boats and palm-like columns, marble, marble everywhere, porticos and arcades, terraces resembling cloisters, arab gardens and warm, limpid nights. not every nation surrounded by the mediterranean sea was regarded as "mediterranenan" in spirit, e.g. the jews, the levantines, the turks were deemed "continental" asians.
Hey Pastanon How Salvini doing ? Hope he rekt the European election
Justin Campbell
Well, I recognize a great affinity between all Latin countries but I can't think about France as a country having ties with the Arab world, except by great replacement of course. Same thing goes for Spain and Portugal who just knows war with it, Italy who just knows pillagings from it. Except if you talk about their Antic past maybe?
As a Spaniard I have to admit that we, and I suppose that the Portuguese too, have something to do with the Arabs ... At least culturally, great advances in science and agriculture during its dominion, thinks that less the north of Spain, the rest is similar in climate and crops to the north of Africa. Many monuments, Alhambra, the Mosque of Cordoba etc. The Arabs who invaded us were more advanced than the Visigoths and that must be acknowledged.
I have respect for the people of the Mediterranean Levant, despite not having met anyone personally. And I also feel a great disgust towards the people of the Maghreb, despite having known many of them.
Like the rest of the western world I suppose ... Pro-homosexual propaganda, feminism, transsexuality, massive immigration, destruction of culture / traditions etc. Economically it seems that we are better than during the crisis, but definitely not better than before it ...
>Albert Camus Literally an Algerian whose mother tongue wasn't even French. His books were the shittiest I had to read in high school and college.
Gabriel Cooper
They were not advanced, the engineers they captured were advanced. Proof is they were unable to build anything near the quality of Alhambra by themselves in their home countries.
The history of Spain is a slow liberation from the muslim upper class. There is at least a desire to break culturally from the Arab world, that's why I don't acknowledge the existence of a med culture but a Latin culture and an Arab culture, which can share some aspects sometimes.
Interesting thing what this Frenchman says. Both in the Visigothic occupation (Germans) and in the Arab invasion, only the upper class changed, the common people remained the same, since the time of the Romans.
the arab architecture is a superior form of art, period. that's hard to deny and i don't care if some autistic will call me nigger for that (btw i'm probably in the whitest 1% of pol). but you are focusing too much on the arbs an too less on the egyptians who heavily influenced the minoan fresco painting as well as the arab calligraphy. we are all more or less children of the egypt.
Carter Russell
trusting your ancestor, having negro blood was not popular in the past.
I don't think it's THAT bad it's always better than here there's a major and crucial difference between western people and middle eastern people,and we haven't accepted this fact up until now
Dude were armies went they raped... spaniards did this a lot in the spanish empire times...
Nolan Rivera
> whose mother tongue wasn't even French what are you talking about incel? where did you study? btw the most alpha among the 20th cenury "european" writers.
Anchovy will just bully me with her rotting pizza smelling feet. Her feet are nice and pale because she is a true nordic roman descendant whereas I have moor feet.
