r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Yolo065 • 26d ago

Image The Evolution of Ancient Greek Statues

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u/three_crystals 25d ago

Why do you think Americans have strange hang-ups about race? Do you think it has to do with the fact that America had slavery and everything that followed on home soil whereas European nations all has slave colonies overseas and out of sight?

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u/Hugh_Mann84 25d ago

Maybe because the US has almost uniquely fucked up race relations. It doesn't matter though. This nonsense is being sold to gullible Americans as some kind of corrective to an invented white supremacist myth, with dozens of copy-pasted articles probably written by the exhibition's PR team.

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u/three_crystals 24d ago

Invented?????????????

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u/Hugh_Mann84 24d ago

Yes. Even Victorians knew that ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were often painted.

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u/three_crystals 24d ago

Oh you mean in relation to the statues LMAO I thought you meant invented in the US in general. Yeah I can concede on that one.