the empire strikes back
As the Romans and the Brits discovered -- and the USA may yet discover -- empires have a nasty habit of striking back and especially so, according to Dorcas, if citizenship is given away too freely to immigrants.
“The Roman Empire started to disintegrate when the number of indigenous Romans was vastly outnumbered by immigrant citizens,” says Dorcas. “The number of people who did care about what was happening had lost control and the new arrivals from the empire were angry about conditions in Rome being worse than those they had left.”
"The Empire then struck back at what remained of glorious Rome with a vengeance," says Dorcas. "The city was sacked, historical buildings were trashed, treasure was looted and the patrician families and their country estates were left impoverished. And all of this became the eventual fate of Britain, too."
"Having contributed towards Rome's downfall -- and no longer having a reason to stay in an impoverished city with no jobs, no action and no glory -- the immigrant families moved on to greener pastures, or returned to their original homelands laden with stolen Roman treasure."
"Sure, most of this treasure originally came from the foreign lands that the Romans had conquered and brought into the Roman Empire -- just like most British treasure originally came from the foreign lands that the Brits had conquered and brought into the British Empire -- and there is poetic justice, sort of, in this sort of thing," says Dorcas, "but it's still a slap in the face for the original Roman and British empire-builders who, after all, granted the foreigners equal citizenship as well as a right to share in the glory and wealth opportunities of the empire."
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“The Roman Empire started to disintegrate when the number of indigenous Romans was vastly outnumbered by immigrant citizens,” says Dorcas. “The number of people who did care about what was happening had lost control and the new arrivals from the empire were angry about conditions in Rome being worse than those they had left.”
"The Empire then struck back at what remained of glorious Rome with a vengeance," says Dorcas. "The city was sacked, historical buildings were trashed, treasure was looted and the patrician families and their country estates were left impoverished. And all of this became the eventual fate of Britain, too."
"Having contributed towards Rome's downfall -- and no longer having a reason to stay in an impoverished city with no jobs, no action and no glory -- the immigrant families moved on to greener pastures, or returned to their original homelands laden with stolen Roman treasure."
"Sure, most of this treasure originally came from the foreign lands that the Romans had conquered and brought into the Roman Empire -- just like most British treasure originally came from the foreign lands that the Brits had conquered and brought into the British Empire -- and there is poetic justice, sort of, in this sort of thing," says Dorcas, "but it's still a slap in the face for the original Roman and British empire-builders who, after all, granted the foreigners equal citizenship as well as a right to share in the glory and wealth opportunities of the empire."
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Labels: citizenship, civilization, empires, immigrants, migration, roman empire, romans, social cohesion, survival
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