Yeyyyy!!! Bulgaria is finally a member of the European Union!
This should be written with golden letters in the otherwise thin history book of the Bulgarian people, nation and state.. Yesss, we're finally back where we belong - back together with our European family.
Hmmm, a sound proof to justify huge celebrations. Oh, if only we didn't really have such long, rich andgreat (sometimes not so) history on this continent. So now it's so difficult to explain to the little children why the hell we say that from now on we're Europeans - while we've been here for almost 14 centuries.
Have we really been "Oriental" country for centuries till 1 January 2007, 12 a.m. CET? Let's see... Nothing has changed much since then. (No transformation with majic sticks, sorry) Therefore, if we were "Oriental" till then, we're still such. Or the opposite - if now we're "civilized Europeans" then we should have been ones since much longer...
2 comments:
Well, if you ask me - we are a mixture of European and Oriental with more that comes from the Oriental. Although, geographically we belong to Europe, I think that in terms of thinking, actions and way of life we differ quite a lot from the europeans in the EU. And I think we will not become simillar automatically, before the change is done within our minds and hearts.
I personally don't want to be similar to Western Europeans. I just want we to remain Bulgarians but yet to take the good examples from them in areas in which we are really weak - like justice, etc.
And yes, you're right. The change is up to us :)
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