EASTER AND CHRISTMAS IN ROMANIA IN THE MEDIA NOWADAYS
EASTER AND CHRISTMAS IN ROMANIA IN THE MEDIA NOWADAYS

Summary/Abstract: This article is based on two methods: meta-analysis and focus group in order to demonstrate the way how media is affecting the customs of Christmas and Easter in our days. The media had become more than a source from where people are receiving the information, it generates, in fact, a new way in recreating the rituals of these two popular celebrations in Romania. Nowadays, people are posting on Facebook their experience during this traditional celebration, and how it can see in their pictures, Easter and Christmas in Romania are starting to empathize with other cultures, beginning to celebrate them as people from other countries do. The paradox appears at the moment when Romanian people want a returning to their own traditions, and by this, they are trying to revive old customs and rituals in a manner to prove that Easter and Christmas are still considered as parts of Romania celebrations. It is necessary to find an equilibrium between other cultures and our own culture. How we can do this? By accepting the fact that the society is changing, but in the same way to revive our traditions, celebrating them.

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