INTRODUCTION
Since the beginning of the social existence, humanity has imposed rules of behavior in all the essential areas of life: salutation, correspondence, dress, body movements, gender and class relations along with many other spheres of social activities. Human behavior on these given occurrences has been codified with precise codes of conduct that if broken could result in the entailing to exclude those who derogate from the social category of mannered. Regardless of the time period, geopolitical factors as well as cultural and religious backgrounds, people have considered the acceptance and admiration of others as a necessity for living harmoniously together. Yet, cultural imperialism has proven throughout history its ability to dictate …show more content…
An example of a nation whose set of conduct has been greatly impacted by different cultural imperialist approaches is, what is known today as, Romania. Its geographical location has permitted both the East and the West to explore and settle either for a transitional or a permanent time period until a new empire approached to conquer. A product of its diverse political history, the Romanian nation has shown its struggle to create and maintain an authentic identity, thus always aiming at appropriating itself to other cultures. Upon embracing the legacies of these empires, resulting into a melting pot of Eastern and Western ideas and practices, today there is a desire to dismiss the Eastern influences and instead claim a Western heritage. By examining the best selling book on Romanian manners published in Romania within the past twenty years, one can observe how these manners share many similarities to the American manners, often dismissing what the majority of the working-middle class might considered …show more content…
By 700 BC, a Western-style civilization develops due to the influx of Greek citizens migrating to the north. As a result of a flourishing territory in terms of culture and society, Dacia became a kingdom for roughly one hundred years. The short life-span of the kingdom was due to the conquer of the Roman Empire who colonized parts of Dacia, making it a province of the empire. This is the period that it is assumed that the Romanian nation became latinized, through the embracement of Christianity and adopting the Latin language. At the time, Dacia population was Latinized group in the eastern part of the empire and who also practiced and followed Christian Orthodoxy. A few centuries later, around 5th century AD, nomadic Asian and European tribes, such as Goths, Huns, and Slavs invaded Dacia. By the mid 14th century the former Dacian nation, then known as Wallachia and Moldavia became part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1862, the two states unite to form Romania. It wasn’t until 1877 that Romania was declared independent from the Ottoman Empire. In 1881, Kingdom of Romania is officially proclaimed until the Fall of the Kingdom after World War II. From 1947 to 1989 Romania was under the Communist Regime. Since Romania gained its freedom to practice democracy it accomplished to join NATO in 2004 and to become a
Since the beginning of the social existence, humanity has imposed rules of behavior in all the essential areas of life: salutation, correspondence, dress, body movements, gender and class relations along with many other spheres of social activities. Human behavior on these given occurrences has been codified with precise codes of conduct that if broken could result in the entailing to exclude those who derogate from the social category of mannered. Regardless of the time period, geopolitical factors as well as cultural and religious backgrounds, people have considered the acceptance and admiration of others as a necessity for living harmoniously together. Yet, cultural imperialism has proven throughout history its ability to dictate …show more content…
An example of a nation whose set of conduct has been greatly impacted by different cultural imperialist approaches is, what is known today as, Romania. Its geographical location has permitted both the East and the West to explore and settle either for a transitional or a permanent time period until a new empire approached to conquer. A product of its diverse political history, the Romanian nation has shown its struggle to create and maintain an authentic identity, thus always aiming at appropriating itself to other cultures. Upon embracing the legacies of these empires, resulting into a melting pot of Eastern and Western ideas and practices, today there is a desire to dismiss the Eastern influences and instead claim a Western heritage. By examining the best selling book on Romanian manners published in Romania within the past twenty years, one can observe how these manners share many similarities to the American manners, often dismissing what the majority of the working-middle class might considered …show more content…
By 700 BC, a Western-style civilization develops due to the influx of Greek citizens migrating to the north. As a result of a flourishing territory in terms of culture and society, Dacia became a kingdom for roughly one hundred years. The short life-span of the kingdom was due to the conquer of the Roman Empire who colonized parts of Dacia, making it a province of the empire. This is the period that it is assumed that the Romanian nation became latinized, through the embracement of Christianity and adopting the Latin language. At the time, Dacia population was Latinized group in the eastern part of the empire and who also practiced and followed Christian Orthodoxy. A few centuries later, around 5th century AD, nomadic Asian and European tribes, such as Goths, Huns, and Slavs invaded Dacia. By the mid 14th century the former Dacian nation, then known as Wallachia and Moldavia became part of the Ottoman Empire. In 1862, the two states unite to form Romania. It wasn’t until 1877 that Romania was declared independent from the Ottoman Empire. In 1881, Kingdom of Romania is officially proclaimed until the Fall of the Kingdom after World War II. From 1947 to 1989 Romania was under the Communist Regime. Since Romania gained its freedom to practice democracy it accomplished to join NATO in 2004 and to become a