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The Whiteness of Ancient Greece
I remember watching the judgment of Paris and I don't really remember anything else. They were also, for the most part, obviously, not everybody, but like very white and very British. And it's like, that has become the thing that signifies ancient Greece in terms of a lot of popular culture from Troy to 300 to Troy,.For all the city. Is this idea that because they're in Europe and they're speaking English, they should have British accents, which then means that they're very British? It makes me think of modern Greece, which doesn't even get the kind of respect for lack of a better word that more Western countries get in the modern.
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