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Message:: [QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7549562, member: 110504"]Fantastic writeup, [USER=116315]@Claudius_Gothicus[/USER], with a coin to match!  ...Yeah, from here, in that order.[USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER]'s phrase, "...all vying for prominence," made me sit up.  All you have to do is live in the US long enough before you see a profound distinction, in any context where more than one ethnic group is living cheek by jowl, between the operant,  respective political and cultural dynamics.  As I like to say, in a world reeking of false dichotomies, this Ain't One of 'em.  Two ethnicities can be in a state of war, literally or on an otherwise de facto basis, and the 'dominant' one won't blink at adopting elements of the other's culture.  Right, the term du jour is 'appropriation.' Which can have some resonant validity, depending on the superficiality with which it takes place.  But without this, the history of human civilizaton would be more boring than it is, by orders of magnitude.Apart from the US itself, I get the most traction with this from any number of medieval contexts.  But it's terrific to be so eloquently reminded that it's been going on from ...heck, the beginning of recorded history (and archeology).[/QUOTE]