As seen in these pictures, there is quite a difference between today’s meaning of vandal and its very first beginnings. Nowadays, it is used to illustrate criminals such as arsonists and graffiti artists (I will be talking more about them later on); “vandal” is actually its own criminal term, meaning one who “deliberately destroys or damages public property”. And that is what it has unfairly become to mean: one who intentionally and carelessly ruins/wrecks something beautiful or worthy of preservation, like artwork, or a building or monument.
This is, of course, bias, as this definition is due to the multiple attacks thrown by during the 4th and 5th centuries, on the Roman Empire; writers of the time started describing them as “barbarians”
This is, of course, bias, as this definition is due to the multiple attacks thrown by during the 4th and 5th centuries, on the Roman Empire; writers of the time started describing them as “barbarians”