EMERGENCE OF „NATION” IN THE VOCABULARY OF THE ROMANIAN PRINCIPALITIES
EMERGENCE OF „NATION” IN THE VOCABULARY OF THE ROMANIAN PRINCIPALITIES

Summary/Abstract: IN THE WAKE OF THE 20TH CENTURY, FEW WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF THE FACT THAT NATIONALISM WOULD COME BACK SUCCESSFULLY IN THE ARSENAL OF THE CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL SPEECH. THE CHANGES, WHICH HAVE OCCURRED WITHIN THE ETHNICAL STRUCTURE OF THE FRENCH SOCIETY, HAVE MADE SHORTLY THE NATIONAL FRONT LED BY JEAN-MARIE LE PEN, MOSTLY APPRECIATED BY THE FRENCH ELECTORATE, ON THE BASES OF STRONG ACCENTS NATIONALIST AND ANTI-SEMITE. THUS, IN THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN 2002, LE PEN SUCCEEDED IN REACHING IN THE RUNOFF ELECTION, WHERE HE OBTAINED ONLY 18% OF THE TOTAL NUMBER OF VOTES. HIS POLITICAL ADVERSARY JACQUES CHIRAC HAS ACHIEVED A REAL SUCCESS, BECAUSE NOT OF A REMARKABLE CAMPAIGN, BUT RATHER BECAUSE OF THE FRENCH PEOPLE REACTION TO THE POSSIBILITY OF THEIR COUNTRY LED BY AN EXTREME-RIGHT PARTY. THE SAME HAPPENED WITH THE MOST RECENT ELECTIONS IN FRANCE, WHEN THE DAUGHTER OF LE PEN, MARINE, HAS LOST THE ELECTIONS IN THE FACE OF THE CURRENT PRESIDENT, EMMANUEL MACRON. ALTHOUGH MOST OF THE FRENCH ARE NOT WILLING TO TOLERATE SUCH EXTREME ACCENTS NOR NATIONALIST, THE SITUATION IN FRANCE IS COMPLICATED ENOUGH FROM THIS POINT OF VIEW. THE NUMBER OF THE FRENCH CITIZENS BORN FROM FRENCH CITIZENS IS SMALLER AND SMALLER. IN OTHER WORDS, THE FRENCH ARE AT RISK OF BECOMING A MINORITY IN THEIR COUNTRY. OTHERS DRAMATIZE THE PROCESS IN SAYING THAT FRANCE WILL SOON BECOME A MUSLIM COUNTRY. THE REASON IS THAT IN THE LAST FIFTY YEARS, IMMIGRANTS, ESPECIALLY FROM THE MAGREBIAN REGION (ALGERIA, TUNIS, MOROCCO), HAVE ASSAULTED FRANCE EFFECTIVELY, AS WELL AS OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, REGIONS WHERE FRANCE POSSESSED MANY COLONIES. THE IMMIGRATIONS “INFLATION” MARKING PROFOUNDLY THE EUROPE OF NOWADAYS MADE THE NATIONALIST SPEECH AT LEAST PARTIALLY RE-EVALUATED, NOT ONLY IN FRANCE, BUT ALSO IN OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.

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