Il processo di costruzione dello stato nazione, qui in Romania non è mai terminato. Iniziato, come in tanti altri luoghi d'Europa, alla metà del XIX secolo, esaltando i caratteri di un popolo che si sente discendente degli antichi Romani, still speaks to the minds and hearts of people who are struggling to find a collective and intimate perspective from which to watch the world securely.
what happened. That of the Roman ia is a story of conquest, smembrame nts, disguised dictatorships and colonization. Just to keep the recent past, part of Romania, Bessarabia, the current Republic of Moldova was divided just before the Second World War by the Ribbentrop - Molotov, and ended at the end of the war, directly under Soviet control. The Romania had no luck so different, ending in the infamous Moscow Communist influence.
In early April, during the demonstrations of support given to students in Chisinau, I was impressed to notice quite westernized and secularized young, make a display of nationalist sentiments that, Veneda Italy, are not absolutely used to and that I believe (perhaps foolishly) silly.
Two are the coordinates that can help untangle this in the Carpathian mountains. Both intersect in the bitter communist past. The first is the still ongoing construction of a national sentiment, never finished, and symbolized by the national poet Mihail Eminescu. Not surprisingly, one of the most disastrous policies of Ceausescu è stata appunto un desiderio di ripagare il debito estero del Paese, a costo di enormi sacrifici e interminabile scarsità di generi alimentari e di altri beni di consumo per la popolazione civile, per dimostrare la grandezza e la forza della nazione. Nazionalismo e autarchia. E forse questa modernizzazione incompiuta spiega anche il lento e faticoso districarsi del Paese nella transizione al mercato che, come mi dicono alcuni amici rumeni, dura ormai da vent'anni.
La seconda coordinata, legata alla prima come due piatti di una vecchia bilancia che oscillano lontani, è un sentimento di inferiorità verso le culture occidentali. La capitale è piena di copie di momumenti esteri e nel secolo scorso, nel period between the wars, was nicknamed "Little Paris." The biggest business here in Romania are managed by foreign companies, which find fertile ground that the premises can not but enhance. More than in the other former Warsaw Pact countries, here in Romania the advent of the communist regime meant the attempt of a systematic cancellation of the past. All'altzza plan that I think of the Communist Party of China and Pol Pot, the dictator sangunario cambodian. In Bucharest, whole neighborhoods of precious architecture 'belle epoque' have been razed to make way for its expanses of block and the monstrous building that now houses the parliament, which would have been the residence of Ceausescu and his wife Elena. A classic cultural suicide of a culture that struggles to be done on an angle to secure a cognitive map that reserving a place at par along with other European and world culture.
The 'progress' as a weed, this tree is on solid ground by the roots just great to prosper. If in the 80s at the urban landscape was marred by the Communist-gray buildings, today the romance of some views is disturbed by the proliferation of shopping centers and urban planning from the few rules and easy money.
Every day, like a refrain, the baker or pastry shops, and buy some good rustic sweet and salty else shocked dall'incarto strictly poor quality plastic that breaks the first slight tug. The "anthropological revolution" of the encounter between modernity and tradition with the ashes of communism, served with a gypsy spirit that lingers for Romania, has the sad profile cocalari and pitzipoanca that are derogatory terms with which Bucharest and well educated young men and women define the periphery styled so ridiculous glorification of masculinity, violence, ill-concealed, beauty store, vulgar display of outlines and stasus symbol. The sound of this generation of young people are those sad manele , a byproduct of the gypsy musical tradition where necessary adapted to commercial tastes clubbers.
Colonialism and the loss of national sovereignty today to face the Romanians 'democratic' EU. There are many who see it hasty and unsubstantiated the process of integration into the Community. Process according to detractors that he would once again led to the selling off of the beauties and products (especially the food) national. The road to a resolution of the dilemma of re-Romanian national feelings still seems long.
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