>>18134098
> Eastern admixture has been dated hundreds of years before that
are you talking about the 10% eastern Mediterranean admixture, this was very different from the subsequent increase plus near eastern DNA

you are incorrect

Multiculturalism is an effect of liberalism and prosperity. In general multiculturalism is good to begin with as it attracts the best and brightest then turns to shit when they allow mass immigration of low IQ. It happened to the Romans, the immigrants were slaves, but gradually these were manumitted by soiboi cucks and Roman incels took slave wives and Rome became a lot browner and low IQ.

>>17889455
>>17891003
Romans were humans just like us and subject to the same emotions, social relationships and thoughts on them. We see a similar trend to today, of people abandoning their old communities as they become wealthier and becoming more open to other groups. This in fact happened in ancient Rome.

>>17791137
>overreliance on foreign labor
there is some truth to this, Rome relied on slaves and foederati to protect their borders and ceased to be the military core of the empire, there was certainly demographic change in Rome and power shifted to the east and to the north

>decadent elites, and moral decay mirror today’s West
not really, caligula and nero existed at the height of rome, degeneracy is kind of a constant and does not explain what changed when Rome began to crumble