An interesting post, but I take issue with a few things: It was White people who transformed the tradition of marriage from a mere ulititarian one for preserving the race to one involving passionate love. Richard Wagner, for example, wrote romantic operas in which the hero, Siegfried, risks his life for Brunhilde due to his passionate love for her.
There is an old joke about a European who visited Africa and told the native chief a story about how a man went through all sorts of risks to save the woman he loved from various dangers. The tribal chief listened patiently, but at the end of the story asked, "Why didn't he just find another girl?"
The word Pagan originally referred to the practitioners of the Olympic religion in Europe who had not converted to the new Christian religion. Hinduism and Buddhism were originally White religions before non-Whites took them over.
Because of these matters, your whole thesis seems suspect to me. Romance and romanticism is something we associate with White people in particular. Indeed, the word romance comes from the name Rome. Romance languages, for example, are White languages. Arranged marriages, the opposite of romance, are what we associate with non-White cultures, particular India, where they are virtually universal, even today.
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