rowdytinker said:Do you actually know anything about the history of Southern Italy and how much Arab influence shaped it? You definitely picked a poor example to use.👎
I mean, if you really think about it... there probably would have been a much bigger influence from the Romans, the Greeks, and the Albanians over in Italy! And hey, if we’re going down that road... we could easily argue that the Romans and Greeks actually had an impact on the Arabs too... which is exactly why Alexandria in Egypt is such a total dump today.
I’m telling you, I can see it with my own two eyes—and trust me, I’ve been there, seen it firsthand—that there isn't much of a real difference between Indians and Pakistanis at all.
That’s basically like being split right down the middle, like you're stuck on both sides of the Mississippi at the exact same time! 😉 It’s just one thing after another... everyone in Ercegovac is getting absolutely screwed over.
It’s exactly like how the Punjab region is split right down the middle between India and Pakistan. You’ve got both sides playing this incredibly cunning game, acting like these master merchants who are always three steps ahead, while the rest of us? We're just little kittens being toyed with by their sheer, calculated deviousness!😉
If my memory serves me right—and it usually does when it comes to the deep cuts of history—Naples wasn't always what you see today, because up until about the 9th century, that place was strictly a Hellenophone stronghold, basically an ethnic Greek settlement through and through.Look, I get it... it’s pretty obvious to me... everything that’s supposedly "wrong" with Southern Europe today... you can pin it all on the Muslims... they're the ones who dragged the whole region backward.
I mean, I really have to wonder... who on earth were those people lurking in the backwaters of Europe, folks who wouldn't even know an Arab or a Turk if they bumped right into one? And let me tell you, there used to be absolutely TONS of those types around until just not that long ago!
And here’s the kicker—most of these areas were heavily Catholic strongholds, you know? And now, after enduring literal centuries of nothing but misery and grinding poverty, the European Union is finally pulling them out of the gutter!
I mean, honestly... should we even be blaming the Spaniards for how things turned out? It feels like the Arab-Muslim-Maur crowd completely botched everything in South America, leaving the whole region a total mess while the Anglo-Saxons were busy actually industrializing and getting ahead.
Give it fifty years, right? Once the Emirates transform into this absolute powerhouse of global trade and logistics—a total titan of industry—everyone is going to start acting like they didn't build the whole thing from the ground up. You can already hear the noise coming, people's voices getting loud and dismissive, claiming that their success wasn't actually their own doing, just some stroke of luck because they happened to sit on a massive pile of natural resources. It’s always the same story, isn't it? They’ll try to strip away all the grit and the sheer willpower it took to turn that wealth into an empire, acting as if those riches were just handed to them on a silver platter without any effort at all. Mark my words, the skeptics will be out in full force trying to deny their achievement.
Look, it’s pretty obvious if you actually sit down and think about it... back in the day, Spain had a massive chunk of America and all that incredible wealth to show for it. But then they hit the 20th century basically acting like nothing more than an exporter—just shipping out wine, olives, and endless waves of immigrants and laborers. It’s honestly frustrating because, with that kind of massive influx of cash coming straight from the States, they really had the golden ticket. They could have easily transformed themselves into a global powerhouse—a total heavyweight in culture, industry, and science! Instead, they just let it slip through their fingers.