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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3092462, member: 76194&quot;]The difference between today and the Roman times was that Romans expected newcomers to become Roman. Which is why no matter where you went in the empire, every city looked familiar. You could tell where the forum would be, where the lawcourts would be, where the temples would be, etc. Rome was multicultural in the sense that it encompassed many ethnicities from Britania all the way to the deserts of Arabia, but they were all Romans....not Romano-this, Romano-this. Therefore, you cannot look at today&#039;s ideas of multiculturalism and try to apply them to the past.</p><p><br /></p><p>Speaking of multicultural Romans, here is a half North-African (area of modern Lybia) and half Syrian emperor who was quite Roman indeed. You see, Romans didn&#039;t care about skin color or what religious practices you had, as long as you became Roman and embodied the ideals of what was to be Roman.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]780680[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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