As someone with an interest in pre-modern history, this is the worst thing about it. I just think that the buildings look cool and I'm constantly fascinated by the ingenuity and resourcefulness of people who had to do almost everything by hand. While the chuds may or may not like that stuff, they also think the absolute power of ancient rulers and their noble castes is something to aspire towards. I certainly find those aspects of history interesting but I'm glad they're mostly in the past where they belong.

Plus they believe, rightly or wrongly depending on the issue, that past societies represent their idea of an ethnostate, where no one with a gender identity or sexuality that doesn't conform to their ideas of the world existed, where the patriarchy was more absolute, and everyone feared god, etc. The same bullshit as hearkening back to the fifties or the antebellum South or workers siding with fascists, it's a world that never was and the chances are that even if you happen to be dominant in some ways, you'll still be some poor ass farmer or factory worker eking out a living and not one of the slaver kings.