Once again, you evidently don't know the meaning of this term. Though the person who first used the term seems to call everything he disagrees with ''chauvinist'' when he can't actually refute it.
And Ario calling anyone "Anti-European" just because someone who trys to highlight the early influences Ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians has on early Greece.
Where has he said this? Or do you say this because he doesn't subscribe to your biased, black and white thesis of evil Europeans not having a civilisation of their own and getting all their achievements because some other civilisation did something. Whether it would be Egypt and Greek civilisation or the ''Dark Ages'' ending because the Mongols invaded Asia.
Interesting how you bring up my old posts regarding the ascension of Western Europe and comments regarding Ancient Greece learning from Near Easterners and Egyptians and claiming me to be biased and having an agenda on Europeans when I have not suggested such a thing.
He has provided sources for his claims, and besides I don't see him ''ignoring'' influence so much as you overrating it and attributing Greek civilisation in almost its entirety to Egyptian influences.
I looked into his sources he provided and some of them cites Egyptian and Levantine influence on the Minoans and tries to prove how Europe is "older" than Egypt, and none of his sources prove that Europe is "older" than Egypt. I never overrated Egyptian influence on Greek civilization, but it's a historical fact that Egyptians in part, together with the early Near East set the stepping stone for Ancient Greek civilization.
If we're being honest: You are extremely anti-European. From the 3 threads you have recently participated in, including this one, you have constantly tossed about biased and straight up false claims to malign Europe and their achievements. Refusing to advance discussion when presented with claims that counter you and dancing around the argument, also resorting to fallacies.
If we're being honest, and you even bothered looking at much older threads of mine and not threads I made recently this year and using them to accuse me of being somehow "Anti-European", I have made threads highlighting the modern day achievements of Western Europe and questioning the factors of what led to Western Europe to create advance technology and science as well as politics and economics. And if we're going to bring up my old thread on the whole Mongol thing, it is a fact that Western Europe had a head start in becoming the center of civilization due to the Mongols setting the chain of events that lead to Western Europe's ascension (btw, we're not bringing that thread up, else it will derail the entire topic at hand right now). I never for one tried to take away the achievements of Europe. I acknowledge the contributions of all societies and I know that all societies/civilizations has dark pasts. But we cannot deny the contributions that early non-European civilizations had on Europe.
They were somewhat influenced and I didn't see anyone deny that. But claiming that the Greeks gained most of their civilisation because of Egyptian influences and that all the Greeks did was somehow inherited from Egypt is nonsensical.
I never claimed that Greece gained most of their civilization from Egyptian influences. But it's a fact that early Egypt and Near East influenced the cultural aspects, mathematical and early scientific knowledge, alphabet and even influences on Greek politics and philosophy in early Greeks. Of course they built off of what they learned, made it uniquely Greek and eventually surpassed their Near Eastern and Egyptian predecessors, but they were still the foundation for Greek civilization, the same as how Greeks laid the foundations for most of Europe.
