Mediocre service, expensive... as if all italians were smart and generous!... yeah, right.
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Hello, I saw Sophia on eros but can't find any reviews of her. Can anyone help me out?
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She probably provides what you are seeking. I have seen her and was satisfied. However, she speaks poorly of American men and constantly complains about them and Americans in general while you are there. I suggest you stay away if only to save you from her insults. I will never return. There are plenty of other quality providers out there for the same rate. I hope this helps. Dang! I just noticed that her rates have gone up since I saw her. Depending on what you are looking for, I suggest one of the other providers that posts here. Good luck.
Mediocre service, expensive... as if all italians were smart and generous!... yeah, right.
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Well, the Romans were smart, industrious and empire builders. Something happened along the way to their descendant-Italians. Maybe it was the rise of the Pope and Catholicism, maybe it was "Il Risorgimento". Whatever happened to Italy, it certainly is one of the great mysteries of history.
However, it does sound as though Sophia inherited the condescending Roman attitude.
Modern day italians have very little "roman" blood of the classical era... In other words, modern italians' ancestry/bloodline/geneology can be traced to the turks/arabs/northafricans/ottomans... the original clssical era Romans have been deluted or pushed up north - northern italy/switzerland/eastern europe.
This transformation/transplantation of a race/group of people has occured on many occasions.... even in the USA. For example, lower NYC, aka Manhattan, was founded and developed by the Dutch and the English... but now, the population of NYC is overwhelmingly african-am., hispanic, italian, and jewish.... very little in the way of the original northern european founders.
Most modern day Italians do not have boodlines out of Sicily which may be one of your bits of historically referenced thesis postings. Also, modern day Italians can tell you the difference between egg plant and watermelon. There are other Med mixes that go into the mainland types but, not moorish and ottoish as you believe you have learned (Sicilian Anthropology). Ancient Rome has nothing to do with it other than Rome happened to be in Italy. It just may be possible that Sophia may have a good point after all.
I think the principal point is that Rome ruled the ancient Western world for nearly a thousand years, whereas modern Italy was among the last of the European countries to form a nation state. Currently, Italy plays relatively modest roles in the EU, and science and technology, despite outstanding achievements during the Renaissance. Perhaps the proper question is, given the Renaissance of the 15-16th centuries, why is it that Italy fell by the historical wayside in the 21st?
I don't think I ever suggested that modern-day Italians could not tell the difference between egg-plants and watermelon.
I have met Sophia (I recognized her at an italian restaurant), she has a really awful attitude, and was quite a bit chubbier than her pics reveal ... she is definitely of the middle eastern stock (sicilian). Sicilians are 90% ottoman/turk/arabic and the remaining 10% is a mix of viking/scandinavian and precaucasus roman...
In any case, what I say is 100% correct as it relates to the ethnic background of most meditarranean people.... in the modern era, the mediterranean people also reproduced in far greater numbers than those who have the original roman/precaucasus bloodline.
Again, in our country, hispanics have multiplied in numbers because more than 90% are immigrants (soon to multiply even more and overtake the role as a single ethnic majority in the USA in less than 10-20 years because they reproduce at an incredible rate); where as blacks have reproduced at a rate of nearly 7-15 times that of caucasians.... so, similarly on the southern half of the italian peninsula (where its default fantastic location and mild climate) has attracted scores of immigrants (byzantine/ottoman era) who reproduced at far greater rates than the original "romans". A similar phenomenon also happened in Greece.... modern day greeks incorrectly and dogmatically claim to be non-turks because of their predominant christian/orthodox faith. But ethnically, they are mostly north africans/central asians.... like the triks and arabs. The classical greeks of pelopponesia/alexandria are long gone.
Thanks for the geneological analysis, ness.
You're right, of course, about the population migrations and drifts, which means that the ancient Romans probably don't bear much genetic relationship to today's Italians. Also consistent with the classical Romans being much shorter than modern Italians.
It's too bad that the Romans practiced cremation. Would have been very interesting to do genetic mapping with PCR to nail it down. I think there was a school teacher in Cheseboro, England who was found to be almost an identical match with 10,000 year-old skull found nearby.
I has same experiance as Gumby. It was all good but she dised American men one too many times for me. My parting shot at her was "Why are you here if your countrymen are so great" and out the door for ever I went.
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