East Asians have an entire subculture built around the Three Kingdoms period and it is as big as Goths, actually much bigger. What could be considered its equivalent in the West? It has to be as epic and dramatic as the three kingdoms though the later is based on a novel.>Late Roman Republic?>Napoleonic Era?And why isn't there one in the West?I think it would be really cool if we also had a common subculture around one particular historical period and its events.Like imagine if 4chan were to create another board just for this particular era, what would that be?
>>18527083Europe doesn't have a period where hegemonic empire ruled over the entirety of it apart from the Roman empire that never reformed properly, its continuity broken.China as a political entity formed and reformed on roughly the same territory over and over again. As such a convergence towards some literally classic was expected.European countries have their special historical periods that are held in high regard often because of later literary works, but they are divergent as you'd expect from the situation.So it's either late roman republic since learning parts of its history was part of the education for European elites for centuries(Seneca, Tacitus, Livy, Caesar and Isidore of Seville, all of which touched some history of the Roman empire had been used as a learning material for latin) or you just realise that Europe is fragmented(which is also why it's a nice place to live)
>>18527083Middle Ages/Renaissance.
>>18527095it doesn't have to cover the whole Europe or be a common denominator everyone can look back to.it just has to be interesting enough to get lots of ppl obsessed and form an internet subculture around it. like the three kingdoms is Chinese history yet it has a strong subculture in Korea and Japan and elsewhere in Asia.
>>18527100That's not a particular historical period with particular events.Better answer would be something like 30 years war or 100 years war or the period during Richard I, Phillip II, Saladin. and the third crusade
>>18527110>That's not a particular historical period with particular events.The High Middle Ages in European Christendom from 1100 to 1450, is that specific enough for you?
>>18527119In fact there kinda is an "internet subculture" with shit like "bardcore" and Deus Vult memes.
>>18527103Then it's Rome and the Napoleonic period. Nothing else is global or continuously relevant enough.
>>18527126not if some nip makes a manga based on some other particular period/event and it becomes an anime as popular as demon slayer or one piece though that won't ever happen.it's largely because the West doesn't have an iconic historical fiction other than Illiad.imagine if Shakespeare produced an epic covering an entire generational event of a particular period of significance instead of a play.
>>18527124it's hardly a subculture.it's actually nothing compared to the three kingdoms and the memes they make.only thing that comes close in terms of size is fantasy/LARP but that is not historical and too broad without a common theme.another one is lotr but it's dying out and is very small with very little meme potential.
>>18527159>it's actually nothing compared to the three kingdoms and the memes they make.Why should it, and do you have statistics to back that up?
>>18527165you don't seem to understand how big three kingdoms is in asia. also things like bardcore or deus vult literally are just memes without any ties to a consistent topic.
>>18527207>you don't seem to understand how big three kingdoms is in asia.You haven't demonstrated that it is so.
>>18527228>18527228i don't need to if i have a first hand experience.also how am i supposed to demonstrate that bro
i wish there was something like that.
>>18527126which one does more justice?Late Roman republic or Napoleonic period.
>>18527245Screenshots, jeet-kun.
>>18527320why would a jeet know a shit about three kingdoms. and how would a screenshot prove anything. if i take a screenshot of your anus does that mean the anglos have built a subculture around your hairy anus?
>>18527328I don't know, you tell me jeet-kun with no screenshots.
>>18527333idk but if i am brown i can kill you and claim you were a racist and they will put handcuffs on you.and all i need is one screenshot on your phone that can be linked to racism in any way via whatever angle.so hahahahahahahahhaai wish i had that much minority privilege.
>>18527367Good, I hate crackers as a proud white man.
>>18527228It's required to be read China schools, is usually required in Thailand schools, and is usually apart of Korea and Japan curriculum too.
>>18527381Nope it's not part of curriculum outside China but it's so popularized and has been popular for a long time that lots of ppl have read it and even those who never read it are exposed to it to an extent. Plenty metaphors and idioms pointing to the three kingdom novel exist and are sometimes expressed on TVs and talk shows and also news.Then there are games and memes and mangas cartoons etc.
>>18527377The elites are lucky that I wasn't born white.If I was born white, you'd already have a full blown dictatorship somewhere in the West.Or more realistically, a terrorist leader (in reality, a revolutionary) who eventually gets executed but whose execution would only accelerate and fuel the crisis even further.Yes, I am a schizo.
how about 30 years war?
>>18527083The western equivalent of rotk is the julioclaudians starting from Caesar.If you want epic and dramatic in the literary sense you have shitloads of dramatizations.
>>18527599so is napoleonic period desu
>>18527083>Late Roman Republic?>Napoleonic Era?You already answered yourself mate
