Oscars: Top nominations overwhelmingly white and male

Query: those roots are?

Because the confluence of Roman culture and post-Westphalian Western Europe (1648) is the only shared point of Mediterranean "male hegemony" and "white supremacy"--a tendency indigenous to the north of Eurasia and found in India, China, and SE Asia to name a few, light skin arose independently of Europe as a response to decreased UV radiation at higher latitudes. Prior to the "Enlightenment", Europeans were much more egalitarian (it's a spectrum, not a switch), and prior to the Roman conquest around 2,000 years ago, most records we have represent a highly egalitarian society with female Celts owning property, arranging their own marriages and divorces and even wielding political power. Even a thousand years after that, the

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