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if you look around for information on the roman people there are just a bunch of discussions on which outside groups came and added to their gene pool, or how the empire had a population of diverse conquered groups. were there people who considered themselves roman as an ethnicity or did the entire empire just see itself as a multicultural wonderland with no founding population?
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>>2412786
Ethnic romans = Latin/italic tribes.
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>>2412786
They look like Italians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdUPYm06gVc
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>>2412812
im aware of this, but was roman and ethnic group? or did it exclusively refer to people under control of the empire?
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>>2412823
Except Italians actually are related to Romans who lived on the Italian peninsula, Jamal.
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>>2412831
Roman = Roman citizen.
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>>2412823
it's not we wuz when it's the same people occupying the same land in continuum for 2000 years. it's like claiming ethnic egyptians are we wuzing when they go to the pyramids. military invasions don't impact gene flow nearly as much as you tell yourself they do.
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>>2412786
Romans were a mess of fucking identities.
If we're gonna look for a "Roman Ethnicity" that would be the as >>2412800. But even that is a mess because if you ask a Roman, in his language, what his "Race" (latin: Gens) was? He'd tell you the name of his fucking tribe, not "Roman."
Furthermore Rome was not multicultural. Multiculturalism is a modern term. They are an Empire, with an obvious imperial core, ruling over peripheries ranked on how much these peripheries are loyal/culturally dominated by Greco-Roman culture/buttload of other factors. They do watch over a lot of ethnicities, and are cool with many of their shit so long as they aren't rebellious fuckers, but there is an overriding "Imperial" identity which trumps other identities in which the Empire defined itself.
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