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Immersion ruined because of black people? 🙄 (discuss.online)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[+] -18 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

I said North Africans weren't black. Are you perhaps mistaking me for the person in the OP? Because you're seemingly going after points I've never made

Your link is about modern Greece btw. Did you read it before posting?

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I pasted the wrong link, which is my mistake - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Greeks

    And I'm not confusing you with OP, I'm explaining that North Africa was not bordered on the south by an impenetrable desert and that thinking only North African peoples were in Ancient Greece really mid-understands geography and proximity to Africa and the commonality of trade along the Nile. Going east, Ancient Buddhists started depicting Shakyamuni Budda as a human figure and not an empty space under a tree directly as the result of Greek philosophical exchange. Buddhist "missionaries" are accounted for in Athens and the Levant more than 2000 years ago.

    Ancient Greece was a pretty cosmopolitan place for the ancient world.

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  • [+] -8 points 9 months ago

    Your link is the opposite situation to what we're talking about. It is talking about Greeks in Africa, not (sub-Saharan) Africans in Greece.

    African Greeks, or Greeks in Africa (Greek: Έλληνες της Αφρικής), are the Greek people in the continent of Africa. Greek communities have existed in Africa since antiquity.

    Ancient Greece was a pretty cosmopolitan place for the ancient world.

    Right, I'm just saying the contacts were more common with North Africans, who weren't black. But there were contacts for sure. Depends on who the black person is portraying if there's any cause for the outrage.

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