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SO white people colonize foreign land and then the indigenous people there are barbarians...fkk this.
shareYep, that's how we role. 👌🏻
shareYes. The white man brought them the great gift of Western Civilisation and still they are ungrateful barbarians bleating on about how they have been oppressed. Why don't they go back to the stone age and see how they like it !
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sharepretty sure middle eastern civilization was far more advanced than the european ones for thousands of years.
shareThis is a fantasy movie, although not a magical fantasy. The nations in the book are not any real nation on earth. The Empire seems to take inspiration from the French Empire and the barbarians seem to be inspired by the Mongols, but there is no relation to actual historic events.
sharePretty sure that is a tired, old and imbecilic kneejerk response that fails miserably to alter the fact that Western Civilisation is the greatest civilisation there has ever been by a huge margin. Not that the Arabs weren't good at arithmetic and architecture though, in their day.
Today but western civilization was not top dog, you can't come in at half time and say you've won, wait another 100years and lets see. My prediction is that Asia will take over.
shareWestern Civilisation is in serious decline because of multi-culturalism and globalisation. It's hard to see any way that it can be saved now as that would involve winding back both of those things in a big way.
Sorry, but if you come from a technologically and culturally advanced place to a region where the people live tribal lifestyles in mud huts and tents and their society ceased to develop in the stone or iron age, that's the general impression you get.
shareWay to completely miss the point.
The unnamed empire (seemingly modeled after France) does refer to the unnamed natives (seeming Mongols) as "barbarians", but anyone with a high school education recognizes that the movie itself isn't endorsing this view.
You can also read it as the natives referring to the empire as barbarians. As the magistrate (Mark Rylance) points out, the locals say that they (the empire) will leave. That they (the empire) have no stomach for the desert. The title isn't just referring to the empire waiting for the barbarians to attack, but also the indigenous people waiting for the barbarians (empire) to leave.
It was a cultural and religious mindset that Europeans carried with them. Especially religion, where they thought anyone who wasn't Christian was a "barbarian", and they couldn't only be civilized by adopted Christianity. Yeah, it's an old outdated frame of mind, but one the Muslims also held when coming across non-Muslims (and current day), or other nations like the Japanese held towards other Asians before and during WW2.
It's not just a European mindset, it's a human one, how humans look down on others that aren't part of their 'tribe'.
That's correct. The bad guys are the white guys. That's literally the whole plot of the movie.
shareEveryone is barbarian to everyone else.
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