The Balkan story made me think. What a difference of reaction in
France, when I say that my mother came from Romania or from the
Austrian-Hungarian Empire! One is distinguished, the other not. To a
lot of people here, through recent inmigration, Romania is equal to
poverty, Gypsies and thieves. But as with the feared invasion of the
polish plumber, the big Gipsy inmigration didn't finally happen.
A part of the Balkans is in the south of Romania, and they have a kind
of "Southern" reputation (in the European sense), wich means good and
bad things, depending on your lifestyle and point of view.
It seems to me that when my grandfather travelled through Europe in
the30's it was no problem to say that you came from Bucharest, but
that you know better than me.
A nice Sunday to everybody
Dyuri
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