/lit/ - Literature

>>19030135
Not really, if you look at things like the history of 'Aryans' in India or how a person needed to speak Greek rather than be Greek to participate in the mystery cults.

>>19030215
>>19031797
>The Roman chastity or sobriety of speech, expression, and gesture is contrasted by the gesticulating, noisy, and disordered exuberance of the Mediterranean type, by his mania for communication and effusiveness, and by his feeble sense of boundaries, hierarchy, and silent subordination. The counterpart of these traits is often a lack of character, the tendency to get excited and become drunk with words: verbosity, a flaunted and conventional sense of honor, susceptibility, concern for appearances but with little or no substance.