conservative romans during the imperial era lamented the romanised barbarians like the gauls and iberians, and others. the only people romans saw as their peers were the greeks, and they looked down on the greeks as weak but they didn't see the greeks as barbarians, and it was taken as a given that greek culture was more advanced than roman. during the republic, citizenship was limited to only free roman men, and later on in the imperial era citizenship was extended to all free subjects that were men of the empire.
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