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No mention of the Romansch, that's quite disappointing. But learning more about Romania and Romanian culture still made for a wonderful read, kudos to the autho

No mention of the Romansch, that's quite disappointing. But learning more about Romania and Romanian culture still made for a wonderful read, kudos to the author.

klez 3mo ago
Uh? They're the second group they talk about, just after the Romanians.
dmd 3mo ago
They’re literally the 2nd group mentioned?
comrade1234 3mo ago
REG: "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" To me, what would suck the most is living in a place after the Romans where you can see signs of their civilization but you're living a rural peasant life.
- toyg 3mo ago
  In many ways, that's how a lot of people feel in modern Britain: everywhere you see signs of XIX century grandeur, but "on the streets" life can feel depressingly backwards.
- Shitty-kitty 3mo ago
  Brewing alcohol was known to hunter-gatherers. Irrigation, sanitation and water-systems were invented in Mesopotamia (as were cities). Medicine/education, that's the Greeks.
  - JumpCrisscross 3mo ago
    > Irrigation, sanitation and water-systems were invented in Mesopotamia (as were cities) This is sort of like saying computers were invented in Mesopotamia because they did math. Roman water and earth-moving civil engineering was absolutely cutting edge to the degree that the projects they undertook would have been unfathomable to their Bronze-Age predecessors.
  - flir 3mo ago
    > Medicine/education, that's the Greeks Egyptians, Shirley? (Although they're such abstract concepts, I'm sure everyone had them to some degree).
- marshray 3mo ago
  The idea entered our collective subconscious and is still going strong: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-father-in-law-is-a-builder-we-cant-we-dont-know-how-to-do-it https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-father-in-law-is-a-builder... Imagine growing up in Cairo.
smitty1110 3mo ago
I 100% deserve getting flamed a bit for skimming and shooting off a comment when not paying enough attention.

No mention of the Romansch, that's quite disappointing. But learning more about Romania and Romanian culture still made for a wonderful read, kudos to the author.

klez 3mo ago

Uh? They're the second group they talk about, just after the Romanians.

dmd 3mo ago

They’re literally the 2nd group mentioned?

comrade1234 3mo ago

REG: "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" To me, what would suck the most is living in a place after the Romans where you can see signs of their civilization but you're living a rural peasant life.

toyg 3mo ago
In many ways, that's how a lot of people feel in modern Britain: everywhere you see signs of XIX century grandeur, but "on the streets" life can feel depressingly backwards.
Shitty-kitty 3mo ago
Brewing alcohol was known to hunter-gatherers. Irrigation, sanitation and water-systems were invented in Mesopotamia (as were cities). Medicine/education, that's the Greeks.
- JumpCrisscross 3mo ago
  > Irrigation, sanitation and water-systems were invented in Mesopotamia (as were cities) This is sort of like saying computers were invented in Mesopotamia because they did math. Roman water and earth-moving civil engineering was absolutely cutting edge to the degree that the projects they undertook would have been unfathomable to their Bronze-Age predecessors.
- flir 3mo ago
  > Medicine/education, that's the Greeks Egyptians, Shirley? (Although they're such abstract concepts, I'm sure everyone had them to some degree).
marshray 3mo ago
The idea entered our collective subconscious and is still going strong: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-father-in-law-is-a-builder-we-cant-we-dont-know-how-to-do-it https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-father-in-law-is-a-builder... Imagine growing up in Cairo.

smitty1110 3mo ago

I 100% deserve getting flamed a bit for skimming and shooting off a comment when not paying enough attention.