IMAGINEA POPULAŢIEI MAJORITARE ÎN MEMORIA COLECTIVĂ A CEHILOR DIN BANAT. DIMENSIUNILE CONVIEŢUIRII
The Image of Majority in the Collective Memory of the Czechs from Banat. Dimensions of Cohabitation

Summary/Abstract: Our aim is to reveal the modalities of referring to the Other, the Romanian, from the local Czechs („pemi” in Banat county) point of view, taking into consideration multiple perspectives: way of living, language, symbols, marriage, music etc. We also tried to answer to a difficult question: are there some personal opinions regarding the Romanians or some patterns applied in the family and community regarding the majority of the population, the Romanians? Our research states that there is rather a “moving portrait” according to generation, gender, habitat, projects, life stories etc. Qualifications “good”/”bad”, “diligent”/”lazy”, “civilized”/ ”rude” although “condemned” by rural laws (that impose only description not evaluations) are present in the discourses we were confronted with. Our research aimed to identify the type of the discourse that reconstructs the image of the Romanian: the story-teller has a fluency or needs moments to “chose” words, he/she feels happy to tell the story or he/she hesitates, the memories are “selected” or not etc. The “Other” is a reality person or community who is referred to appealing to imaginary. What we obtain is its image/re- presentation, simultaneously anchored in reality and imagination, minimizing or maximizing its significance according the point of view the interviewee is talking to. In any way, the banality about the Romanians/”pemi” is refused for the representations are full of symbols and significances.

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