Tag: Barbarians

The distrust of immigrants I explored in my previous article is rooted in more than just (unfounded) fear of violence. After all, violent immigrants can be arrested and imprisoned. But what about law-abiding, productive immigrants? In a way, they seem even more frightening because they can...

In antiquity, the term “barbarians” originated in ancient Greece. The Greeks called all foreigners who did not know their language barbarians (the word “bar-bar” originally was something like the modern “blah-blah-blah”), meaning “muttering”. The ancie...