/lit/ - Literature

>>14511731
We have surviving pre-Islamic gospels that refer to Christ as the son of man and son of God. They crayon was cobbled together and written by committee. Theres a reason it's a fucking mess.

>>14246596
>"whiteness" being a modern concept that has excluded Italians or the Irish, something like a Japanese national identity carrying basically zero - heh - weight until the Meiji Restoration
The Japanese have almost always considered thememselves as one nation. The Emperor was always the symbolic leader of the Japanese people. In fact, of all the feudal kingdoms that birthed industrial ethnostates, the Japanese were among the easiest to unify.

Whiteness is also nothing new. It was just called Chistendom before the modern period, in which a new name was needed to distingush europeans from colonial converts. The Irish and Italians were always considered "white", the real ethnic friction came from their catholic faith. They were never excluded to the same degree as blacks, or for any of the same reasons. For basically all of western history intermarriage between christians, whites, was normal. The English and Irish intermarried constantly, and the Italians intermarried with the French and Austrians constantly. The idea that whites, christians, europeans, or whatever label you wish to use are distinct from the muslims and people from the far east is at least 1000 years old.