The Future of Eastern Europe: A Discussion with Zsuzsanna Szelényi
New Books in World Affairs
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The Differences Between Romania and Western Europe
Romania, the Transylvania that you mentioned, was a for a long time a specific entity with a mixed population. There's also language and there are Latin oriented language in Romania. Then there's basically the Protestant Orthodox and presumably Catholic distinctions. And as I said, it's also religious. It's also how far, you know, a society over, let's say, went through the 90s and 20th century, how nation state were formulated. How strong the patron client system or individualism. This is something which we can see often time in the current culture and political attitudes.
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