Romans greatly admired, while they genocided barbarian tribes like gauls and germanic people. Rome is culturally closer to indians than to northern europe
Italics are white and they invented that term (albus, candidus) they never considered non italics as white let alone pure, let alone now after centuries of hammering and intermixing by countless tribes like Hunns, Mongolians, Slavs and keep going, imagine what they think of you