>Be Arminius>Grew up with a loving foster Roman Father who raised him up like a true Roman — with philosophy, tactics, and culture true to Rome>Gave him an officer position in the Legion>Still betrays them because of his G*rmanic bloodCivic Nationalism cannot replace blood. Just look at Arminius. He never assimilated.No matter how much Civilization his father inserted in his head. No matter how much Cicero, Aristotle, Herodotus, Plutarch, Cato, and Roman Philosophies he read, he threw it all away for his blood.A German can never be a True Roman.No matter how much Roman Nationalism was instilled in him, he still betrayed Rome in the end.
He never assimilated but hundreds of thousands of germans did. Civic nationalism works if you totally assimilate and treat the people as your own. Turks are also mutts like americans but are turbo nationalist cause their whole system believes in total turkification of whoever lives in their state, even if they have no turkic dna
>>540403315>Germans assimilate—No LMAO. They literally did not. Even as foederatis, these germanic barbarians never assimilated. They demand money to not attack Roman Provinces.They don't speak Roman and did not integrate to Roman Culture. Even during Christian Rome they converted to Arian Heresy because they don't want to be seen as Orthodox Roman Christians.Not a single G*rmanic integrated to Rome.
