I think I’m too American to get this.

Old soviet blocks countries are persistent on calling themselves central europeans whereas everyone eastern neighbor is automatically categorized eastern europeans.

Why are they doing this? Because when people think about Eastern Europe, the first thing to come in mind are poor people with intense alcohol issues and the Soviet Union, so this is a huge prestige / perception hit to these countries.

I had a Romanian friend in college who vehemently denied that her home country’s name and/or language had anything to do with Italy. It’s fucking wild the gymnastics people are willing to do in preservation of ego.

What the fuck are implying here man ? Re-read what you wrote because yeah : romania and romanian have nothing to do with Italy

What the fuck?

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=)))))))))) Really ??? What the fuck people . Stop regurgitating shit

Romanian is a LATIN based language.
So yes, it will be similar with italian, but this has nothing to do with “italy”. Because it also has a lot of similarities with Spanish, greek languages . You know ? LATIN Based languages!

When the modern version language was redone (as many other languages) it was made to sound more like italian or French due to those times politics .

Jesus fucking christ

D…dude. the only thing I pointed out is that the languages sound similar. That is an objective fact. Then you went ahead and wrote entire book about how much you are not Italian while I never said such things. Yeah, nationalism is indeed one hell of a drug, calm down lmao