Showing posts with label nationalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nationalism. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Notes from the new front line

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The flag debate drags on and on and ... Political capital is made by both sides in perpetuating it. Easy to whip Romanians into a fury ov...
Friday, January 13, 2012

My Hopes for Transylvania in 2012

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It's the New Year, and I have a dream, and all that... I have this utopian vision in which people get over their need to be intoleran...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

A story

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This is an entirely fictional post about a made up country which is not in any way based on reality, no sirree. Let's imagine there is a...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Piece of crap jailed

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So, I go away for a couple of weeks and all hell breaks loose. Moldova turns into some kind of mini-Ukraine, and apparently Romania is to b...
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Monday, March 16, 2009

Weird and unfriendly

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So, just to follow up on my last post, Solyom did end up coming, but he travelled by car (obviously as an EU citizen Romania can hardly stop...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

The perils of translation

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The president of Hungary, Laszlo Solyom, was due to visit here this weekend, as part of the March 15th (national Day of Hungarians) celebrat...
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Friday, March 07, 2008

Life as a blogger

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Every now and then for my pains I get a tirade of abuse from some rabid nationalist psycho. This can appear in the form of a comment on the...
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Monday, January 08, 2007

Irony

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With much of the far right of (old) Europe convulsed by the threat of the vast number of Romanians (read: gypsies) flooding across the conti...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Carrying on Ceausescu's work

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During the Ceausescu years, there was an official policy of “Romanianisation” of various towns and cities in Transylvania. This was effecte...
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Irredentist

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Today’s word of the day is Irredentist. It has absolutely nothing to do with the person who fixes your teeth. ir•re•den•tist n. One who ad...
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

It's Tough Kid, But It's Life

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And so begins a month or so of fairly intense travelling. Erika left this morning for Barcelona, leaving me in sole charge of Paula, much t...
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Friday, March 10, 2006

March 15th

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Next Wednesday is March 15th, which is a big day here, and this year promises to be a bigger day than normal. March 15th is the national da...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005

March to December

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There are a bunch of soldiers marching around in the main square visible from my window. It seems they are rehearsing for Thursday. I’m no...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

The minority law and the far right

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The political scene in Romania is currently gripped by the debate over the minority law. It’s difficult to find English language sources r...
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Monday, October 31, 2005

Cluj

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Cluj was nice. It has that kind of faded belle époque grandeur even though it’s pretty much falling down in places. Under the Hungarians i...
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Monday, October 24, 2005

Romanian cycle paths

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The pavement outside the building in which Erika’s workplace resides is being dug up. Nobody is quite sure why. Well, one hopes that someb...
Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Who are Romanians and what do they believe?

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"Romanians believe they show less positive personality traits than the “European person”. They even admit having outright negative trai...
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Wednesday, December 01, 2004

December 1st

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Today is an important public holiday in Romania. I can’t tell you exactly what it is for – something like Romania Day, or the Day of Unifica...
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