Why does America like to reference to Ancient Rome
The United States of America isn't real in the traditional sense, so by comparing itself by Rome they can temporarily inject itself with reality by saying "look, we're just like them".
we wuzzing, they WUZ athenians and shit also
Please elaborate or how the United States of America is not real in the traditional sense.
corruption comes in all colors
there is no place for you here, perhaps you should try other boards.
How long does a country have to exist to become real? was Rome not real during the punic wars when it was of comparable age to the US or does a county have to be as old a France before it becomes real?
Because they saw themselves as the republic because muh enlightenment shittery even tho it was ripe with corruption
muh republic
muh Senate filled with old men
muh neoclassical architecture
Rome was populated by millions of Germanic apes and corrupt senators, same difference
you people are the worst
>why does a western republic fashion itself after the cultural paragon of the concept within western culture?
Gee user, I wonder.
What are you gonna ask next, why did western monarchs tend to assume roman symbols of authority?
It was the greatest political entity of its time and the at the forefront of many technologies and ideas
>that foot
what went wrong?
bc rome is cool af senpai
This. The founding fathers were huffing enlightenment philosophy like it was fucking Elmer's.
Yes
Because of their established familiarity and prestige. Makes for clear and obvious associations.
Thanks
>fought a revolution to rid itself of monarchy
>a foreign people in a new homeland Troy to Italy, England to America
>a republic
gee I don't know
Trying to mantle Rome is a common phenomenon among European and European-derived nations.
Ummm because our law system is based like 99% entirely on greco-roman & icelandic law.
>*Ummm because our law system is based like 99% entirely on English law
FTFY
Shot composition and perspective.
Now that you mention it though....is it just me, or is that the Celtic toe?
then why haven't they legalized boy love yet
Americans are the worst of the Rome LARPers
The man and the woman on the left might be looking at you like you're a street urchin, but the woman in the middle wants some street urchin dick.
Yeah, it looks like his ankle joint is bending the wrong way.
>Worst of the Rome LARPers
>Achieved world domination.
That would be the jews
It was the 18th century, everyone and their grandma was LARPing as a classical civilization.
America likes to claim the Classical Torch just like Old World Europe did before them.
Walk around the parts of London built when the Empire was reaching its zenith and all you see is Antiquarian inspired buildings.
Because Rome was a large, successful republic and the US wanted to be a strong, successful republic. Pair this with the traditional European/Mediterranean reference for Roman glory and this aesthetic makes a lot of sense.
In 2500 when some Sri Lankan communist robo-empire controls the world you bet your ass they're gonna mimic the culture and aesthetics of America to invoke our glory.
literally every western polity post the fall of western empire references Rome
It's only basis is in Anglo culture and traditions, which are being steadily eroded since they themselves broke with the Anglo mother country.
>the US is anglo in any way
dumb fucking britshit
WE
It's an Enlightenment thing, not an American thing.
Also America is very much it's own thing thanks to the Frontier. To speak of America without having read Turner is ridiculous.
Wuz
ROMANS
>world domination
>Israel's bitch who keeps giving them billions of dollars every year
>Got BTFO by some farmers
>security and leadership so inept that something like 9/11 actually occured
Far superior to the Romanticism shit that ruined this country in the decades that followed.
>English
>Laws
Pick one.
Americans aren't a real people but a bunch of slaves and outcasts from Africa & Europe that were expelled from their countries by their "fellow" kinsmen.