what is a barbarian?

Answer 1

a barbarian is one whose perceptions are so insensitive that he thinks that he can understand by thinking or feeling something which can be perceived only through development and constant application to the striving towards god.

Answer 2

Barbarian is a perjorative term for an uncivilized, uncultured person, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos perceived as having an inferior level of civilization, or in an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, insensitive person whose behaviour is unacceptable in the purportedly civilized society of the speaker

Answer 3

Historically, the term barbarian has seen widespread use. Many peoples have dismissed alien cultures and even rival civilizations as barbarians because they were recognizably strange. The Greeks admired Scythians and Eastern Gauls as heroic individuals— even in the case of Anacharsis as philosophers—but considered their culture to be barbaric. The Romans indiscriminately regarded the various Germanic tribes, the settled Gauls, and the raiding Huns as barbarians all.
The Chinese (Han Chinese) of the Chinese Empire regarded the Japanese, Koreans, Xiongnu, Tatars, Turks, Mongols, Jurchen, Manchu, and Europeans as barbaric. The Chinese used different terms for barbarians from different directions of the compass. Those in the east were called Dongyi (東夷), those in the west were called Xirong (西戎), those in the south were called Nanman (南蠻), and those in the north were called Beidi (北狄). However, despite the conventional translation of such terms (especially 夷) as 'barbarian', in fact it is possible to translate them simply as 'outsider' or 'stranger', with far less offensive cultural connotations. The use of the translation 'barbarian' may have been a deliberate attempt by European powers to justify their policies against China.
The Japanese adopted the Chinese usage. When Europeans came to Japan, they were called nanban (南蛮), literally Barbarians from the South, because the Portuguese ships appeared to sail from the South and the Dutch were called Kōmō", 紅毛, literally meaning "Red Hair".
Converted barbarians have historically proved sometimes the staunchest supporters of the more developed culture they have recently subverted. Historic examples are the Lombards and the Manchu. "The best Romans," wrote Henry James, "are often northern barbarians." A running theme in all histories of China is that of the conquering outsiders who become utterly Chinese, sinicized: for the English-speaking world the outstandingly familiar example is Kublai Khan.
Italians in the Renaissance often called anyone who lived outside of their country a barbarian. The term has also been used to refer to people from Barbary, a region encompassing most of North Africa. The name of the region, Barbary, comes from the Arabic word Barbar, possibly from the Latin word barbaria, meaning "land of the barbarians".
Even today, barbarian is used to mean someone violent, primitive, uncouth or uncivilized in general, in very much the same disapproving and superior sense that Edward Gibbon used the term in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which recounts how "the Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians" a usage epitomized in Gibbon's Book I, Chapter 38.

Answer 4

Greetings

Well, the question must be of a simple nature... One must understand that there is alot of barbaruan cultures... Like the vikings, racial issues... there were many differant types of understanding of this word... So lets make it clear.

The dictionery says thus :

The word "Barbarian" comes into English from Medieval Latin barbarinus, from Latin barbaria, from Latin barbarus, from the ancient Greek word βάρβαρος (barbaros) which meant a non-Greek, someone whose (first) language was not Greek. The word is imitative, the bar-bar representing the impression of random hubbub produced by hearing spoken a language that one cannot understand, similar to blah blah, babble or rhubarb in modern English. Related imitative forms are found in other Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit barbara-, "stammering" or "one with curly hair" (This term was mainly used by Romans to refer to the Germanic tribes), and the forms are connected to a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *baba-, "to stammer"

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So, lets understand this... The word is greek and latin for two differnet things... See there is the concept... A barbarian is a warrior or a person that is high in strength but not in wit.

There is many answers to this question, but one can go on for ages.... Lifetimes at a time..

So I leave you with this page to go look at... Maybe it might clear the subject up for you.

www.wizardrealm.com/barbarians/

I pray you get understanding from it...

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Answer 5

"Barbarian" is a perjorative term for an uncivilized, uncultured person, either in a general reference to a member of a nation or ethnos perceived as having an inferior level of civilization, or in an individual reference to a brutal, cruel, insensitive person whose behaviour is unacceptable in the purportedly civilized society of the speaker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarian

Answer 6

A barbarian is someone who is uncivilized or uncultured. In the Bible, barbarian is refered to as a foreiner or a stranger.

Answer 7

Barbarian is derived from a Greek word. They thought anyone who wasn't civilised, when they spoke, it sounded like bar bar bar. So originally, it meant anyone who wasn't Greek, or from a nation that the Greeks considered civilised. Then it meant anyone who wasn't civilised. Now it seems to mean anyone who comes from a disadvantaged country.

Answer 8

Goth /gɒθ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[goth] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. one of a Teutonic people who in the 3rd to 5th centuries invaded and settled in parts of the Roman Empire.
2. a person of no refinement; barbarian.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/goth

God
[Origin: bef. 900; ME, OE; c. D god, G Gott, ON goth, Goth guth]
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Do you get it?

Yahweh is not a god.

1 TIMOTHY 3:15
But if I am delayed, I write so that you may know the right and proper way to conduct yourself in THE HOUSE OF YAHWEH, who are the called out ones of the living Father, the pillar and ground of the truth.
http://www.yahweh.com/

Answer 9

It comes from the word "barbar" which means "beard." The northern Europeans (with their thick beards) were perceived as violent, ruthless, cruel and uncivilized by others (often from warmer climates and with thinner facial hair), thus the term has come to describe these things.