Imagine walking on grounds without proper history. Where kings have not walked, where blood has not been shed, where prior civilizations did not sacrifice to gods and conquer land, where the modern world was not brought to life by innovation after innovation in the renaissance, where hundreds of generations have not lived before you...
Fort Alamo is the most historically significant building in the world
Elijah Green
Except Native Americans have been here for many thousands of years and it's interesting to read about the oral histories of peoples like the Iroquois, Navajo, Sioux, and Crow They may not be of European, African, or Asian history like the vast majority of Americans but it's still as much a part of the history of the land as the many tribes of Europe prior to feudalism I bet you don't even know about Cahokia
Latin America has more interesting history than Sweden for sure. I think Mexico alone has more Unesco world heritage sites than all snownigger countries combined.
It's a really weird feeling when you're among some ancient Roman ruins or in a medieval church. Thinking of all those people hundreds of thousands years ago also being on the same spot and seeing what you see and touching the same stones and walls.
Years ago I was visiting Budapest and I was on the Danube and because of the whole journey I felt very far away from Bulgaria and I suddenly thought how 1100 years ago this was the borderland of muh ancestors. Weird feeling.
100 years ago Bratislava was just a random small town close to Vienna. Now it's the capital of another country and there is a border between Vienna and Bratislava. Weird feeling man.
Michael Rogers
Finland doesn't have any real history either
Owen Reyes
Spot on pal, lovely street an all
Aiden Smith
meh
Nolan Barnes
Who wouldn't get existential crisis if you have to pat a duck on the head to clean your paws.
>i don't know anything about the "new" world so therefore it has no history >the americas only came into existence when colonization happened this is what you sound like
The thread is about places of civilization with rich history. Small Indian tribes walking around in vast stretches of land or fucking Amazon jungle people is not that.
Bentley Cruz
>100 years ago Bratislava was just a random small German town close to Vienna
fixinated
Brandon Bailey
even by your definition, we've still had plenty which gets ignored by yuros probably since we're comparing basically a large peninsula to the entire area of the americas
You can't understand what I'm trying to say. Those are super isolated spots in a HUGE area. The OP is talking about living in a country where rich history is all around you, and not having to travel 1000 miles to reach some cave houses of some tribe that disappeared 2000 years ago.
Christopher Robinson
Imagine having all that and throwing it away to become an islamic shithole because you couldn't see what a failure importing third worlders was for America
Ian Sanchez
I don't think you understand what I mean, either point is, all we have now are ruins and subjective fee-fee bias towards our particular ruins the cultures that made them do not exist today
The point of OP is that 99% of Americans don't live near pre-modern history and can't get that thing that old worlders can. I live in a city that has been continuously inhabited in the last 5000 years. There are Roman roads and walls, churches from the 4th century onward, a mosque from the 16th century. You can feel history everywhere. That's the whole point of this bait thread.
Logan Ward
we usually make up for that in the amount of untouched land we have even so, I don't see how living near where other people used to live is such a special thing that most western euros would choose to jerk eachother off over how cool and amazing it is while ignoring any concept of the rest of the world having the same feeling
Christopher Cook
>I don't see how living near where other people used to live is such a special thing That's the whole point, you can't grasp that feeling.
James Carter
>implying any of this matters I was also in the specific cherry picked image you used a few weeks ago
Now if you want to shit on the new world, urban planning is a depressing, boring mess
So is this the European version of bragging about ancestry tests on twitter
Mason Rogers
muh history
Kevin Gray
All the clay past the Hercules' Pillars are barely worth of our attention. I am struggling to remember the last time I saw news from Canada, USA that were not Trump's pas fauxes, Brazil, Argentina or Colombia (was it Colombia the starving country?)
Robert Ward
>deliberately ignoring half of the post the feeling is meaningless, all you choose to do is look back and remember what someone told you about some ruins, while ignoring what is currently happening