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those filthy danes coming over here and washing their bodies (quokk.au)
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[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

I saw recently that a contributing factor to solidifying the the Orthodox/Catholic schizm was that when Crusaders passed through Constantinople on their way to Jerusalem, they were a bunch of filthy Western rednecks, and everyone was horrified by how terrible they were.