>>18520520
butthurt catholicism
But only south Italians failed to join
North Italians had German blood and joined

>>18520521
a bunch of Eskimos could have lived in the Po Valley and it would have joined the European Core just the same

You are only part of the European core, if you are Germano-Celtic in blood. Northern Italy was already Celtic, when it was conquered by the Roman Empire and got more Germanic blood later on, especially from the Lombards, which gave them their modern name.

>>18520618
The Nords aren't very Celtic are they? Or should we say "Bell Beaker-Germanic", and are Scandis Bell beaker-Germanic?
t. not too informed RE pre-antiquity ethnicities

>>18520633
>Nordic countries like Iceland, which are genetically 90% Celtic, because of all of the Thralls they had and freed, get called "not very Celtic" today
LMAOOO

I guess everything, just so Nords can pretend they aren't Northern Germanics and remain "pure", but also "just Nords and not Germanic", instead of the "mixed" Germans, where only the most southern German regions might get called 50% Celtic, which is still a complete and total population replacement, given that these regions used to be the Celtic homeland. But yeah it's definitely the Germans that are so mixed, they are barely even Germanic and definitely not the Nords, who also fell for the "slavic wife, happy life" meme or Sweden, which at some point in history, was almost completely genetically replaced by men from Denmark post Viking Age.

HAHAHAHA sure Nords are not very Celtic. They are only more Celtic than the actual Celts, but that's okay. I guess every post-ww2 people love to pretend their people naturally emerged from the stone and dirt from their country. HAHAH Nords aren't very celtic. NICE JOKE BRO

>>18520684
Literally mirin' this melty bro. Nice work.
"Celtic" isn't a great term to use outside references to languages and language groups. Got any melty paragraphs for that?

>>18520520
The modern core of Europe pretty directly translates to the parts of Europe which adopted free market capitalism and modern banking/investment early on. And the regions were feudalism was abandoned quickest.

Really you mainly just see the Protestant parts of Europe plus France, which liberalized massively and quickly with their revolution.

>>18520684
There's no celtic ethnic group. Being celtic is basically a separatist cultural identity, there's no use in being celtic in an already independent statelet so they call themselves vikings instead as that's more cool.

>>18520618
ludicrous nonsense, Northern Italy is primarily Italic, and more East Mediterranean than it is Germanic and Celtic put together

>>18520618
So? Is that supposed to make them smart? Both celts and Germans were fairly low iq before the northern renaissance and contributed nothing to human civilization. The Industrial Revolution is entirely a fluke.

>>18521269
Free market capitalism was born out of Northern Italy. What made all the difference was the economical shift towards North Western Europe following the discovery of America and the Industrial Revolution.