This is like the argument version of an air strike
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Wrong. This debate was about this: the BBC tried to claim that a Sub-Saharan African family was "typical" of Roman Britain? Do you agree?
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Assuming "typical" means ethnicity vs culture is your bias
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Was it ethnically "typical" of Britain?
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Culturally typical of Romans in Britain.
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was it ethnically "typical"?
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As explained many times by MB, there isn't enough information to make it possible to say what would have been 'typical'.
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The characters also speak English and on other parts of the BBC children's history site Romans have unfeasibly large square heads.
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So you think that a sub Saharan African family were "typical" of Roman Britain, Kirstie?
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> to something else/a straw man etc. I'm now just occasionally interjecting so data is available for those genuinely interested in it! :)
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“To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind” - Henrik Ibsen
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