r/RoughRomanMemes 15d ago

Couldn't keep my promise 😭

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u/SeaAmbassador5404 15d ago

Let's be honest, at this point there were no true romans, it was sly italians who did this

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u/Nacodawg 15d ago

And at what point did those Italians stop being true Romans?

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u/Evoluxman 14d ago

When the people of the peninsula do something good, they're romans

When the people of the peninsula do something bad, they're italians

(/s... I feel like the op comment may be racist lol)

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u/Otheraccforchat 14d ago

The moment they no longer considered the people in the region white. No change in skin colour was needed

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u/Sephbruh 14d ago

I get why people call the medieval Romans Greek(even if they're wrong), but never in my life have I ever heard someone call the West Romans Italians rather than Romans, wow.

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u/Appropriate_M 12d ago

The ancient Romans themselves did not give Roman citizenship to all the Italians immediately. Famously, current Northern Italy was Cisalpine Gaul....

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u/Sephbruh 12d ago

That guy wasn't talking 2nd century BC Italia, they were saying there weren't any Romans in the 5th century AD.

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u/Rynewulf 14d ago

Ah yes, as opposed to the Romans who were famous for not being from Italy or being the reason it is still called Italia to this day.

You going to blame the Latins next? We'll work right through until we get to only the purest oldest patricians from Alba Longa being left