O analiză şi interpretare eseistică a românizării şi consecinţe ale acesteia
Analyze and Essay interpretation of the Romanization and Its Consequences
Professor Lucian Boia’s1 work addresses the historical process of centralization, unification and compliance of the Romanian provinces from an interdisciplinary perspective. It treats the process gradually as they integrated into the structures of the Romanian State starting with the Union of the Principalities (1859) and continuing with the period between the Two World Wars, then the communist times and the contemporary ones. In this context, the author limits himself only to the analyze of the historical evolution line called “Romanization” – strategy which was assumed constantly, monitored and coordinated by the political elites at power. In his essayistic – interpretative endeavor, the author reaches the debatable conclusion that we have reached to the “almost entirely” disappearance of the ethnic, religious, multicultural diversity from a very diverse population from cultural, ethnical, religious linguistic such the one existing in the Old Kingdom, and then in the Great Romania from between the two World Wars. Particularly, as result of the communist domination, the nowadays Romania presents itself more “Romanized” than ever. Unfortunately, the Romanians themselves have been Romanized by isolating them from the values of the Western culture, action promoted by the communist regime.
Keywords: centralism, Romanization, ethnicities, religions, national unitary State, Boia.
