Reference Type:  Book Section
Author: Ciobanu-Băcanu, Maria
Year: 2006
Title: Românii, tătarii și turcii la contactul dintre culturi
Translated Title: [Romanian, Tartars and Turks in cultural contact / Románok, tatárok és törökök kultúrák találkozásában]
Book Title: Românii la contactul dintre culturi (relații interetnice) [Romanians in contact with other cultures - Interethnics relation)]
City: București
Publisher: Editura România Pur și Simplu
Pages: 151-163
Chapter: Chapter VI.
Language: Romanian
Keywords: Tatars, Turks, history, identity, interculturalism, multiculturalism
Abstract: (ENG) The work puts in evidence the interethnic climate among Romanians as integrative milieu and the “guests” who came on our territory and have remained here up to now. The ethnic groups studied are: Hungarians, Szeklers, Saxon-Germans, Tatars, Turks and Roma, everyone with its own identitar specific expressed in culture, language and religion. The study on their opening to Romanian culture shows us great differences among ethnic groups. For instance, Hungarians and Saxon-Germans, in the virtue of their social-economic status as privileged groups, had a behavior less open to cultural patterns and value orientation change with Romanians. By their very elaborated and severe inner behavior codes, they did not allow the communication with them, but this had not occurred in reality. Tatars and Turks were open to Romanian culture. They are well integrated and consider themselves the most loyal ethnic groups in Romania.