It's always the patriarchal conquerors like the Ancient Romans or the Ancient Greeks that they idolize and never the people like, say, the Picts or the Celts or the Gaul that rebelled against the brutal Roman empire. It's never the Scottish or the Irish heroes who fought back against the British Empire that followed in Rome's footsteps. None of them probably even know who Boudica is.
Ironically, a lot of the stuff you could call "white culture" was burnt at the stake, banned, brutalized, and literally demonized by the Empires that chuds think are so civilized. A lot of pagan culture was lost to time, or warped by Roman 'scholars' for propaganda purposes. If they truly cared about their 'culture', then "Muh Christian trad wife' would be seen as killing the identity of pagan women, rather than an aspiration.
It's part of a bunch of myths that have to do with explaining the "European miracle."
fr. mentioning modernity (if anything can accurately be called such) without talking about the hugely influential roles of Islamic society and Native Americans is hugely ahistorical.
Eurocentrism by Samir Amin should be required reading at every high school. I think I'm just going to turn my account into quotes from that work debunking liberal nonsense lmao