"While being an immigrant does carry a stigma in today’s US, that stigma is minimal (compared to Europe) "
Are immigrants viewed much more negatively in Europe than in the US?
I've never been to the US, but in Canada and the Australia I found the prevalence of anti immigrant views similar to similar to or greater than in the UK (where I'm from) and I get the impression that the US is has more anti immigrant feelings than Canada.
This is a cool review but perhaps Beard is an outlier regarding Roman slavery. I remember Elaine Pagels, who studied ancient Christianity, that the Roman Empire was 3/4 slave, not 3/4 free. And the Roman Empire went for a thousand years so what periods to rough proportions had slavery as a percentage of the population? And wasn't there a lot of "porto-feudalism" by the end of the Roman Empire. Are those folks counted as free? They kinda are but kinda are not...
"While being an immigrant does carry a stigma in today’s US, that stigma is minimal (compared to Europe) "
Are immigrants viewed much more negatively in Europe than in the US?
I've never been to the US, but in Canada and the Australia I found the prevalence of anti immigrant views similar to similar to or greater than in the UK (where I'm from) and I get the impression that the US is has more anti immigrant feelings than Canada.
This is a cool review but perhaps Beard is an outlier regarding Roman slavery. I remember Elaine Pagels, who studied ancient Christianity, that the Roman Empire was 3/4 slave, not 3/4 free. And the Roman Empire went for a thousand years so what periods to rough proportions had slavery as a percentage of the population? And wasn't there a lot of "porto-feudalism" by the end of the Roman Empire. Are those folks counted as free? They kinda are but kinda are not...
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/892567659342114816?s=21&t=f3IS3haxiM1MV0K2wujqNA
Quel moment épique 😉