[QUOTE Btw, since King Richard Lionheart was a decendant of Vikings wouldn't that make him a barbarian?
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Scandinavian,.I am agree with you at some points with reference to Barbar matter.To my mind,Barbarism is closely linked with the fact that anyone sees himself to be superior to another one in some ways.
I will now express my views of the mental background for western world and people .To me,Western world is certainly racist and sees himself to be superior to another world.The concepts or expressions such as Indo-European,Mongoloid ,Yellow race or First world ,second world or third world countries are completely belonging to Indo-European intellectuals,academicians,authors and even to the majority of western people..
seeing the ****ing figures such as Blair,Bush of western origin who are noted for running over the poor and inoffensive people in our -present day dont baffle me ,who knows How much racist a great deal of western people are .
Of course,Richard was one of them.but I dont would like to make all of people living in Europe generalize on this topic.Racism starts with claiming the superiority.so I think all racists are also barbarics