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Re:New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock s... by sillystu04 on Thursday June 19, 2025 @05:50AM (#44317023)
The Romans never referred to the Greeks, Jews or Egyptians as barbarian. If they did it certainly wasn't with great frequency.

It almost always targeted at the tribal Anglo, Celtic or Germanic peoples. And in these circumstances it was really an insult at their style of government rather than their ethnic identity.

Re:New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock s... by rightbyte on Thursday June 19, 2025 @06:38AM (#44317277)
Wasn't the insult to the way their languages sounded, i.e. a onomatopoetic word?