I kid, I know at least one very fine Dutch person. Funny story, he was on his way home from work in his truck smoking a joint and an officer following him smelled it and pulled him over. The officer approached his window and he's sitting there still smoking his joint and the officer is like the hell are you doing that's illegal and you're driving, upon hearing his thick Dutch accent the officer is just look oh nevermind you're from Holland and lets him off with a warning.
I'd try to argue the plum rose is, unfortunately, the symbol of the ROC and therefore representative of a capitalist empire getting roflstomped by communists, but the flower was adopted in like' 64 - 15 years after the PRC was proclaimed.
I've read some more recent analysis that suggests that the tulip mania mostly only happened on paper and the contracts with the vast sums on them were mostly not actually executed. And that at any rate the tulip gambling was confined to a small group of people and hade little economic impact.
So now I have to do more reading to figure out if that's cope or not.
I like to believe it was a country-wide phenomena with a bunch of Dutch dorks in clogs clacking around with literal bundles of tulips in hand while they go grocery shopping
no way to know if they didn't mingle with the existing albanian diaspora, but regardless the guy was at least 4th generation from Albania & italian albanians speak a different dialect (and had been a population in naples since the 1300s). english people don't get to claim yankees sorry :hoxha-turt: you dont get gramsci
theres also griko in the mezzogiorno but they're mostly thought to be leftovers from roman times (romans ejected in 1071) more than greeks fleeing the ottomans.
greeks who lived under/fled to italian rule in the renaissance usually were with the maritime republics who had greek islands; albanians came to naples because charles of anjou attached albania to the neapolitan (sicilian) crown
Are the Griko related to the old Greek colonials from way back during the founding days of the southern colonial city-states mixed in with the Indigenous Italian tribes? Or are they a more recent ethnic group?
there's an uninterrupted presence of greeks in southern italy from those initial greek colonies to the present day. the character of this presence has changed quite a bit though, and exactly where too. of course ancient colonies were city-states, and its thought the pretty immediate surroundings were habitated by italians, and this didn't change when the Romans conquered italy. Romans liked greek though so besides a lot of them getting enslaved greek cities survived until hellenistic civic culture goes into decline in late antiquity.
in late antiquity greek italy is briefly part of the gothic kingdom but afterward is the portion of italy most securely held by the 'byzantine' (greek-speaking now) romans and undergoes the same process of deurbanization as the rest of the empire; which is when greek language really gets emplaced in the countryside. ironically after the normans who conquered sicily kick out the roman government, its the cities who most directly interface with state authorities and trade & abandon greek while the peasants speaking greek don't. modern griko are the most podunk rural villagers in southern italy
so idk are they the descendents of Sybaris & Herakleia or medieval roman ruralization? they certainly ain't city folk like ancient times, the OG's were pagan & these modern ones are latin caths, & theres no geneaologies going back that far so :shrug-outta-hecks: its subjective
Literally demonstrating why the :anti-italian-action: bit exists.
Also italians have the blood of gramsci and graccii, so they're not pure evil, like the dutch
There are two things in this world I cannot stand:
People that are intolerant of other people's cultures... And the Dutch.
VUUUT? TAKE ZAA NAKOICHI AVVAAAAY
I kid, I know at least one very fine Dutch person. Funny story, he was on his way home from work in his truck smoking a joint and an officer following him smelled it and pulled him over. The officer approached his window and he's sitting there still smoking his joint and the officer is like the hell are you doing that's illegal and you're driving, upon hearing his thick Dutch accent the officer is just look oh nevermind you're from Holland and lets him off with a warning.
:data-laughing: the only good dutchman
THE PERFIDOUS DUTCH :matt-jokerfied:
Perfidious Batavia
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So was tulip mania lol
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They are also very pretty flowers.
I'm partial to plum blossoms over tulips myself. Not only are they pretty but they also make a great tea, and their fruits are so multipurpose.
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I'd try to argue the plum rose is, unfortunately, the symbol of the ROC and therefore representative of a capitalist empire getting roflstomped by communists, but the flower was adopted in like' 64 - 15 years after the PRC was proclaimed.
I've read some more recent analysis that suggests that the tulip mania mostly only happened on paper and the contracts with the vast sums on them were mostly not actually executed. And that at any rate the tulip gambling was confined to a small group of people and hade little economic impact.
So now I have to do more reading to figure out if that's cope or not.
I like to believe it was a country-wide phenomena with a bunch of Dutch dorks in clogs clacking around with literal bundles of tulips in hand while they go grocery shopping
Is that the one with the turnips?
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If I'm reading his genealogy thing correctly, he was more Italian than Albanian since that ancestry was from his grandfather Gennaro.
no way to know if they didn't mingle with the existing albanian diaspora, but regardless the guy was at least 4th generation from Albania & italian albanians speak a different dialect (and had been a population in naples since the 1300s). english people don't get to claim yankees sorry :hoxha-turt: you dont get gramsci
Yeah it was actually a fascinating rabbithole to dive down in relating to the Balkan diaspora resulting from the ottoman conquests.
theres also griko in the mezzogiorno but they're mostly thought to be leftovers from roman times (romans ejected in 1071) more than greeks fleeing the ottomans.
greeks who lived under/fled to italian rule in the renaissance usually were with the maritime republics who had greek islands; albanians came to naples because charles of anjou attached albania to the neapolitan (sicilian) crown
Are the Griko related to the old Greek colonials from way back during the founding days of the southern colonial city-states mixed in with the Indigenous Italian tribes? Or are they a more recent ethnic group?
there's an uninterrupted presence of greeks in southern italy from those initial greek colonies to the present day. the character of this presence has changed quite a bit though, and exactly where too. of course ancient colonies were city-states, and its thought the pretty immediate surroundings were habitated by italians, and this didn't change when the Romans conquered italy. Romans liked greek though so besides a lot of them getting enslaved greek cities survived until hellenistic civic culture goes into decline in late antiquity.
in late antiquity greek italy is briefly part of the gothic kingdom but afterward is the portion of italy most securely held by the 'byzantine' (greek-speaking now) romans and undergoes the same process of deurbanization as the rest of the empire; which is when greek language really gets emplaced in the countryside. ironically after the normans who conquered sicily kick out the roman government, its the cities who most directly interface with state authorities and trade & abandon greek while the peasants speaking greek don't. modern griko are the most podunk rural villagers in southern italy
so idk are they the descendents of Sybaris & Herakleia or medieval roman ruralization? they certainly ain't city folk like ancient times, the OG's were pagan & these modern ones are latin caths, & theres no geneaologies going back that far so :shrug-outta-hecks: its subjective
Honestly the histories of such ancient lands fascinates me, thanks for sharing. It's genuinely so amazing how much history can happen in small places
Albania runs on the reverse one drop rule. Albania stronk. An oz of Albania is mightier than litres of Italia.