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You must pick a point in human history before the 1950s to be spend the rest of your life in. What era and place would you choose? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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You would still have the same age, gender, personality, skin color, etc. and you would be able to speak at least one local language and would know basic information of the era and place. Your family, social standing, and such would be randomly picked.

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[–] mke_geek@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Back in time if you're gay? Or trans? Or a woman? Or a person of color?

No thanks.

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gay? Ancient Greece. Person of color? Just pick someplace that won’t have significant contact with different races during your lifetime.

[–] timicin@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what if you're both?

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then ask someone who knows more about history than me! :)

[–] pruneaue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

If you go further back in time you can get back to fairly queer friendly societies

[–] Greg@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The way your society currently discriminates and segments humans is not universal

[–] MudMan@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right?

We're going on a tangent here, but I feel like Western progressives, particularly with anglo backgrounds, tend to think the entire world runs by their parameters and always has. There is nothing intrinsic to the current kinds of bigotry in their societies. It's pretty arbitrary and specific, in fact.

[–] livus@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@MudMan yeah this. Threads like this make me really wish more non-western ancient history was taught in schools.

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As an American, I wholeheartedly agree. I often wish I had a sturdier foundation in world history.

[–] MrsDoyle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Especially ancient Africa! Look up Mansa Musa, king of Mali. Carthage too. Zimbabwe. Benin. Egypt too, it’s in Africa.