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"millet system where your life revolves around your identity, 'American' as identity going into terminal decline and shifting into a mosaic of primary identities (including an on the face of it continuation of 'American' that is in fact a hardline, ultranationalist pastiche with little resemblance to"
"I shouldn't be shocked by anything anymore but the prevalence of the opinion that the stark differences between the West and the Orient come down to some fundamental difference in the original theology of the Bronze Age monotheistic Abrahamic religion of Christianity vs. the Bronze monotheistic Abra"
"What's really cool is that most of these countries knew of and tried to have decent relations with each other. Dom Pedro II was the one who started the 'pls come to Brazil' thing when he first visited the Ottoman Empire, and Pan-Asianists in Japan were known to heavily advocate for increasing the al"
"If the Ottoman Empire had won WW1 then the Middle East would be made up of liberal democracies and the West would be ruled by strongmen and Christian Talibans"