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The fact is that Western civilization has nothing to do with ancient Greece, the ancient Roman Empire, or with the Eastern Roman Empire. Rather, Western civilization is based on Germanic civilization. The majority of Western peoples are, to one extent or another, Germanic peoples. The few who aren't came to be in the Western sphere of influence through invasion, long-term occupation, and extirpation of their native cultures by Germanic peoples.
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Erm... With the same logic, there is not Greaco-Roman culture, since the Romans occupied Greece...
However, the Romans, took over Greece and assimilated the Greek civilization and the relevant aspects of it...
Nevertheless assimilation in this context does not necesarilly means to give up your culture in favor of another or destroy the culture of the people you occupy.
The Romans had their own culture (thow similar with the Greek one even before the occupation due to the proximity of Rome and the other Greek colonies in Italy) and "mixed" it with the Greek.
Thus the "Graeco-Roman" culture was borned.
Following the same logic, the Germanics did overrun the Western Empire and assimilated the Roman culture.
Therefore, we can say that the Germano/Roman culture evolved to what we know today as "Western Civilization".
(In brief: the Germanics took Over Rome, assimilated the Roman culture, which is a combination of the Roman and Greek civilization etc etc etc...)
I hope I made myself clear
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This hijacking of Greco-Roman civilization by the Germanic West and the Greek collaboration to legitimize it has led to a break in Greece's social evolution and historical experience, undoubtedly playing a major role in Greece's self-destructive Europhilia, if not Euromania. Until Greece rejects this unnatural and completely artificial rift in its evolution and corrects it by reverting to its organic stage of development, the nation will never make any sort of progress.
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As Greek, I will agree with you on that our "Xenomania" (Xenos = Foreign) and Euromania is one of the reasons that we are in this ubsurd position in regard to social, political and even cultural terms.
Oh well... History is a circle innit?
