ROMANIA’S IMAGE COUNTRY AND ROMANIANS’ IDENTITY IN THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE CYBERSPACE. A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF PERCEPTIONS, STEREOTYPES AND THE PROCESS OF RECONSTRUCTING ROMANIA
ROMANIA’S IMAGE COUNTRY AND ROMANIANS’ IDENTITY IN THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE CYBERSPACE. A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF PERCEPTIONS, STEREOTYPES AND THE PROCESS OF RECONSTRUCTING ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: The present paper focuses on identifying and analysing Romania’s image country, Romanians’ identity and the stereotypes regarding them, in Japanese language cyberspace during 2015-2018. The research study has been conducted on a number of 108 articles written exclusively in Japanese language, selected according to the following criteria: the author’s identity as a native Japanese language speaker, number of visualisations, Google’s rankings, and time of publishing. The innovation of this article lies in the fact that we concentrated strictly on the Japanese language cyberspace and we concluded in pointing out subtle, sensitive and yet radical differences between the reflection of Romania and Romanians in Japanese language cyberspace and international language cyberspace.

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