Thanks for the reference! I see you also have a lot of opinions about Romania. I usually believe when people say "the system is at fault" we tend to forget... We ARE the system. Another one is when you are stuck in traffic and complain about it, you have to remember you are the traffic.

This is my mentality when I choose to live in countries like Romania. I would much rather be part of the solution than the problem and personally except for the corrupt government that luckily Romanians try to fight, the only "bad" I see in its culture and its people are how bad they seem to judge each other. When a Romanian ask me "how I like the country", it is actually frequent he are judging his own country by saying stuff like "Romanians are assholes". (something along those lines, you get my point) But yet I have never been feeling offended or attacked by anyone, in contrast, I have only been met with hospitality and curiosity.

I never hear foreigners say it, but a lot of Romanians talk bad about their own people and I guess that influence me in some way. But instead of joining it, I rather try to fight it and look at what I find so special about Romania and we need more people to join that wagon, so we can create a new mentality in the people.

Romanians are lovely people, they just dont seem to know it.

Also have you heard about "homecomers" that is a group of native Romanians who have chosen come home once again and unite. My girlfriend is a part of that group:)