You will see the same patterns with Iranians when it comes to Persia , arabs for Islamic golden age and etc.
only countries that don’t build and superiority complex around their history are the Japenese and other East Asians.
This is actually an interesting thing to unpack, and I will lay out why I disagree. Go to Twitter and see how these Rome larping Germanics are acting -- it's Euro-eugenics obsession and racial hierarchy fixation.
The Iranians who obsess about ancient iconography usually do it as a form of cultural re-definition away from the Islamic character of modern Iranian national reality.
The guys who hold Islamic imaging are usually Islamic-based and also sadly sometimes sectarian rather than a racial supremacist conception, and more often than not, not even Arab.
I will also heavily disagree with this notion that the Japanese don't hold exceptionalist views of themselves and their ways. They used to be Nazi-like, thinking they were the master race (something that entirely sprang out of their own thinking, not adopted from the European fascists). Today, it's indirect but very comprehensive in their culture, social conditions, and view of the world. They lowkey think the rest of the world is barbaric and you can't find more snobbish people than the Japanese as a collective.
Again, these people are not like the Anglo-Saxon with Roman branding, but they do indeed have their own way of expressing the notion of being better. A Japanese guy knows the reality of his country, he loves it when he gets praise from foreigners framing his country like a utopia (which he knows is a lie), but also detests people who rightfully criticize aspects of Japan (this is a common phenomenon for westerners who live in Japan). There are people who have lived in Japan for many decades and are still treated as outsiders. We're not talking about being "Japanese" but being treated as an outsider completely, like they came yesterday. This social conditioning comes from the notion that only Japanese are in-group and they make it very difficult for others to be accepted. That is why moving to Japan and living there is really a problem.
The Chinese are very different and more about ideas than race, although they are about civilization and ideology. These guys are very pragmatic.
Also, what I was referring to that differs between these Roman-obsessed guys, who usually are just racists, and an Egyptian with AE iconography or a Persian with Cyrus motifs, is that the former takes on things that really have nothing to do with them, they racialize the entire Europe into a single block and act in a spesific way and the last part is what I am emphesizing.
Italians rarely have these Roman avatars as their profile picture, although having that is not the same as an American white identitarian who has Keiser as his profile because it would be in the form of their own historic cultural expression.
It's important to distinguish the Roman aspect from the guys who use Roman imagery. It's about the latter, and their views that have constructed a new trend around whiteness, racism, immigration obsession, frankly lies about this concept of Western civilization, etc -- it's used to build false ideologies around a distorted image to reinforce old supremacist ideas and domination. That is why, without fail, those guys similar to the one OP posted are always distasteful characters with extreme views. Those are the types to post IQ scores of Africans and then say how we cannot even operate in a society.
Let me give examples (here is one with Greek imagary which falls within the same ballpark, althouth Roman is the typical):
I can go on and on, but you get the point. The same can be said about users with female child anime pictures. It a particular type of users behind those accounts as well.