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Ukrainian 20th century hut.

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Mariya Tobischek - Steal the night, 2024

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What a Starry Night by Andrii Voloshenko (1883 - 1959)

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Women in Veils

by Constant Puyo, 1900

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“Hatshepsut” by Yamagishi Ryouko

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3 views of a 15th century sculpture of Mary Magdalene dressed after the fashion of the time as presented in the “Des cheveux et des poils” (“Hair and hairs”) exhibit in the Paris museum of decorative arts.

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anti-māori sentiment among maga international is disturbing. it just puffed into existence in the last year or so, which is horribly coincidental with the recent right-wing turn of the new zealand government

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Holy mount Athos

Monastery of Vatopaidi

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Aggregation of Ruby Spotted Swallowtail caterpillars on a tree in the Yucatán Peninsula

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so interesting that armenians don't consider themselves european! i am a little uneducated on this topic, so i've never thought otherwise. i'm now gonna research this topic more, thank you. how would you say armenians determine themselves?

I’d like to start by saying that, for me, being considered Asian or European holds no inherent preference. My answer contains no malcontent; I am simply addressing the question as it's been posed. Interestingly, I had never thought of myself as European. I’ve always identified as Asian and as someone from the Caucasus.

I’ll explain my reasoning shortly, but first, let’s not confuse "Caucasian", meaning a person from the Caucasus, and the term "Caucasian" as coined by Blumenbach in his highly problematic racial theory. Many people use "Caucasian" to refer to white people (a surprise to me at first) without knowing the term’s problematic origins. Blumenbach categorized humanity into five groups—Caucasian, Mongolian, Malayan, Ethiopian, and American. His work was mostly scientific, but he showed bias by declaring the skull of a Georgian woman the “most handsome”, suggesting that the most beautiful people lived on the southern slopes of Mount Caucasus. He then made a leap by claiming that whiteness was the “primitive color of mankind”. This is how "Caucasian" became synonymous to "white" and this is why I find the use of "Caucasian" to mean white people so problematic. But, once again, when I call myself/Armenians Caucasian, it is because we are actually from Caucasus.

Armenians are indigenous to the Armenian Highlands, which are bordered by the Pontic Mountains to the north, the Caucasus Mountains to the northeast, the Zagros Mountains to the south, and the eastern Taurus Mountains to the west. This clearly places us in Western Asia, not Europe. Modern-day Armenia occupies only a small part of the historical Armenian Highlands, situated in the South Caucasus. So, in conclusion, as an Armenian, I don’t consider Armenians to be European.

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“Cults of Ares were often connected to battle lore, and as the ancestor of the Amazons, Ares was associated with stories of women warriors. In Argos and Tegea, legends told how the women of the city took up arms to battle invading Spartans, and having achieved victory, established cults of Ares from which men were excluded.”

— Ancient Greek Cults by Jennifer Larson (via zarya-zaryanitsa)

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Old cottage from the Kielce countryside, Poland.

Source: Muzeum Wsi Kieleckiej.

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Joyce Lee

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faceless folklore

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Portret młodej warmiaczki (Junge Ermländerin bei der Andacht), Louis Friedrich Sy