a cultural shock back home….or should i call it reality? May 29, 2007

the reality is that people from Romania are mean…i saw this in Bucharest and i see this also in my home town, even though the people here pretend not to be “Olteni” which is seen as somehow, rude, cold, mean and so on.

after they got married, my parents chose to live here because it was at half distance from each of their parents. my mother never liked it and my father never admited that he didn’t like it either. for me it was fun to grow here…even though i didn’t have too many friends cause i was kind of geeky and i didn’t have money to go out to town with the cool gang…

today, i was in a supermarket with my mom and out of the blue this guy, in front of me in the cue, thinks i am staying too close to him (which is strange…because i am not a touchy person)…and he starts saying that this is the education of the young people in Romania and so on and so on…he was around 60 years old. and i spoke with him calmly, polite, without raising my tone and he continued to be angry and started calling me names, so my mom got angry and told him to mind his own business, and that an old guy should be more polite at his age…and he gets offended to be called old man…so here we are…at the kasse cueing and arguing…My GOD!!…after 3 minutes of arguing he is in front of the cashier and gets his products and pays…and leaves…but guess what…he waits for us at the exit and starts calling both of us whores and so on…UNBELIEVEBLE…i was still pretty calm, and i just said “please go home and mind your own business” but my mom was very offened…

i got over it but…i guess this is why young people leave Romania…and this is why our country is “developing” so slow…because people make it the goal of their lives to be: mean, to offend people, to feel very egocentric, so swear and lose their patience…

now, it seems so mean to me…people are mean just because…which seams to me so stupid and meaningless…i guess Romania needs a looong loong time to become civilized…