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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 8475441" data-attributes="member: 1125"><p>the racist aspect is describing certain real world peoples as 'Horse Barbarians' from the plains of Russia or "Desert Barbarians" from the Near/Middle East, Its conflating certain cultures with the role of Barbarian which perpetuates a racist stereotype - in what way were Near Eastern peoples more Barbarous than those elsewhere?</p><p></p><p>The flaw in stating that Barbarians need not be raiders is the same conflating of role/class with culture. The Barbarian as class is a type of warrior - and thus very much defined by conflict as Barbarian = aggressive warrior in the heat of battle. However rage-fueled warrior can come from anywhere - Roman soldier attacking a Gaulish village could be as much a Barbarian class as the local Gauls.</p><p></p><p>The OPs premise that there are Barbarian cultures that the settled people needs to defend against is flawed, the example of Hadrians Wall is illustrative as although it was built due to <em>troublesome tribes to the north</em> (I assume they would be Foot Barbarians in the OPs list) the fact is, it was the Romans who were the foreign invader</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 8475441, member: 1125"] the racist aspect is describing certain real world peoples as 'Horse Barbarians' from the plains of Russia or "Desert Barbarians" from the Near/Middle East, Its conflating certain cultures with the role of Barbarian which perpetuates a racist stereotype - in what way were Near Eastern peoples more Barbarous than those elsewhere? The flaw in stating that Barbarians need not be raiders is the same conflating of role/class with culture. The Barbarian as class is a type of warrior - and thus very much defined by conflict as Barbarian = aggressive warrior in the heat of battle. However rage-fueled warrior can come from anywhere - Roman soldier attacking a Gaulish village could be as much a Barbarian class as the local Gauls. The OPs premise that there are Barbarian cultures that the settled people needs to defend against is flawed, the example of Hadrians Wall is illustrative as although it was built due to [I]troublesome tribes to the north[/I] (I assume they would be Foot Barbarians in the OPs list) the fact is, it was the Romans who were the foreign invader [/QUOTE]
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