Seeing Romania with American Eyes Cultural Stereotypes Between Endorsement and Rejection
Seeing Romania with American Eyes Cultural Stereotypes Between Endorsement and Rejection

Summary/Abstract: This paper deals with the cultural shock of the American writers, journalists or researchers who visited Romania both before and after the 1989 Revolution. It provides the reaction of the American traveler when confronted to a plethora of Romanian realities, the feedback he gets from the people here, as well as their insight upon inland realities. This insight ranges from an idealized vision upon our destiny in the world, doubled by a sense of helplessness in front of the international conspiracy against Romania, to defeatist approaches that point at this country as doomed, unless the international powers will urgently intervene.

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