Concept in Definition ABC

The concept that concerns us in this review presents several references in our language.

The word barbarian is a term with Latin roots, which in turn comes from a Greek term that refers to Foreign.

Individual belonging to those peoples that in the 5th century invaded the Roman Empire and later settled in the rest of Europe and were characterized by their violence

Meanwhile, in history, it has been known as barbarians or has been designated as barbarian, to that individual who in the 5th century was part of those peoples that invaded the Roman Empire and that they later spread throughout much of Europe, and therefore, everything related to these peoples is also called barbarian.

Meanwhile, the barbarians have been divided into: Slavic white race (Czechs, Kashubians, Slovaks, among others), non-Slavic white race (Gauls, Germans, among others) and yellow race (misers and Huns). So some of these barbarian peoples have been the Gauls, the Huns, the Germans and the Iberians, among others.

For its part, it is known as Barbarian Invasions to the set of massive migrations that occurred between the 3rd and 8th centuries , both in the continent European as in the basin from the Mediterranean. These migratory movements contributed greatly in marking the transition between the so-called ancient age and its successor the middle Ages.

Situation or issue associated with cruelty and violence

It should be noted that the attitude that prevailed in these barbarian peoples and therefore in their representatives, was the violence, therefore, it is that the term barbarian is used frequently when wanting to express some situation or characteristic related precisely to the cruelty, violence and recklessness. So much so that when you want to express that someone is cruel or violent you are told that he is a barbarian.
“Juan is a barbarian, I don't invite him home anymore, he destroyed my whole garden with the ball.”

The Roman people of antiquity were responsible for the attribution of this characteristic of brutal and cruel with which these peoples who lived beyond their borders. And not to mention how that denomination spread when they dared to challenge their territories.
With this way of naming them, they intended to imply at that time that they were individuals who lacked civilization.

Barbarism, the salient feature of a barbarian

As barbarism is called that attitude that is precisely characterized by presenting little civility in acting, a lot of aggression, approaching the same to a typical behavior of animals, which are guided a lot by instinct as we already know, they do not reason like human beings.

Most civilized people flatly reject this way of behaving, because they consider that there is nothing that justifies acting in a violent way against another, then someone who shows up and acts in that way will be directly discriminated against and rejected by the society. It will cost you to integrate.

Now, we must take into account beyond this that we mentioned, that the human being is a rational animal, that is, it has reasoning but it does not stop being an animal with which it is intelligent but animal at the same time, and in this last condition it is when he could sometimes be imprisoned and dominated by his instincts and act on him, for example, in an irrational and violent

One who behaves in a rude or reckless manner

Likewise, the term barbarian is used when someone manifests in a rude, reckless, crude, or uneducated way.

This sense is also associated with or comes from the characterization of the barbarian peoples, and of course, it is characterized by great violence and rusticity when it comes to behaving in life, a fact that later led us to use the word today to precisely refer to those people who are ordinary or rude in their life in general or who have a behavior with these features.

That extraordinary

However and very paradoxically, the word barbarian is also used a lot in popular language to refer to something extraordinary, magnificent or excellent.
It can be used in relation to the performance of a person in a task or activity, or to the quality or conditions that something presents and that are really overcoming in their group or species.
“You were great at reading the poem, we all got very excited.”

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