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Mentalitatea românească de la homo balcanicus la homo europaeus
Romanian Mentality. From Homo Balcanicus to Home Europeaus

Author(s): Oana Bradu, Antonio Sandu
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: normative; mentality; homo balcanicus

Summary/Abstract: Balkan mentality has been created at the crossroads between East and West, between the Christian world and the Muslim, between the points of commercial crossing roads and armies too. The Balkan world, realising the double extent, on the one hand the European institutions, and on the other the eastern side, to full authority, invented a concept specifically - the forms without substance. Essentially anomic, the Balkan culture, does not reject the rule, but send it into ridiculous, as something created to be broken. Balkan man, on the dawn of the XXI century, adopts the institutions of European culture and have the tendency to transform them into forms without substance.

  • Issue Year: I/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 6-11
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian