Well thats the point though, they found "empty" farmlands and villages due to the pandemic that hit northern england 3 years prior, they didnt build houses and farms (well maybe re-cultivate it, but thats much more easier than creating new farmland). They just came from the urban areas of Holland which was the progressive wealthy "utopia" of that time and were ignorant of the local weather.
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Orientalism only has the aesthetic of other cultures, but the ideas are just the things the "west" does not want to be. Its an long ingrained social weapon used cynically against the enemy du jour.
But our shorthand for, say, Europe's Middle age doesn't actually replace anyone's understanding of European history
That period is horrible misconstrued due to the victorian age propaganda. Half of the "medivial age" based media is a horrible mishmash of 17-19th century anglo-norman-centric cultural memory imposed on the 10th-13th century timeframe. Like there were regions of western europe that DIDNT have "feudalism" (which is an antiquated term nowdays) at all.
Of course its nothing compared to non-western cultures and their treatment (or complete erasure).
They also had a shrinking class of Spartiates, because spartan citizens had to pay for their own training & equipment.
Thats more Athens. Sparta wasnt even a village, it was three hamlets and was almost run neoliberal and build on a perpetual enslaved class. Sparta became a myth and a tourist trap for romans and were defeated by an army of consensual similarly aged gay lovers.
OG Orientalism was about the Byzantines and the struggle for self-determination during the greek papacy, when rome was a backwater under east roman control. Especially once east rome adopted iconoclasm to stop the rise of islam, which raised an huge issue, since icons were a beloved tradition of roman culture. Of course romans believed in goldilocks "racism", with the south being nerdy frail femboys and the north being dumb overmanly brutes with big dicks (yes), and the romans being the perfect middle ground.
This caused the fractured between the decadent effeminate emotional greeks vs the temperate stoic masculine latins. This was transferred to the muslims and then east asia. The tropes are basically the same across the times.
Back then they actually hoped for technology aiding in the liberation of the human spirit, instead of the daily dread of what torment nexus is going to be implemented next.
Imaging wanting a unique style and unique aesthetic instead of Pinterest copy-paste all beige/grey.
Fascism is a death cult, so yes.
He is basically the only candidate that is hwhite but can appeal to the global south (the actual relevant place for the catholic church), thats why his "peruaness" is so emphasized and he used spanish instead of english.
He named himself after a famous pro-worker (in the cronge socdem way) pope. I doubt he is fond of china due to the muh evul cpu state-enforced atheism.
They would call it DEI woke though since Sparta Women were OG Girlbosses (because they became big landladies due to the high death rate of Spartiates).