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Romania has many long-standing problems, one of them being [[Orphanage of Fear|nasty orphanages]]. This had to do with Ceauşescu wanting to boost the Romanian population by all means, even if this involved many mothers not being able to care for so many unwanted kids, abandoning them instead, so they ended up in... right. And we haven't even gone into the chaotic post-Communist situation, the Mineriad, the inefficient education system, the severe corruption and plain [[They Just Didn't Care|incompetent governments]]...
Used to have a long enmity with Hungary, especially over Transylvania (a bit more on this historical conflict on the [[
Transylvania, setting for "Dracula", is in Romania - now. It was transferred from Hungary at the end of [[World War
In other words, when someone tries to do a gritty adaptation of Dracula and has him speaking Romanian to up the realism, they're wrong. He should be speaking Hungarian. If they were making a film about Vlad Dracul, Wallachian prince and freedom fighter also known as "The Impaler", ''then'' he ought to be speaking Romanian.
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By 1985-1989, at the tail end of Ceaușescu's "pay off debt by starving the population" phase, the entire network's runtime had been reduced to two hours, containing mostly patriotic songs. The people were not amused. People could still watch foreign stations with make-shift (or very expensive, depending on the case) "black market" parabolic antennas. For the worst of those, they could see Russian, Moldovan and Bulgarian stations. For the best, they could tune to French ones.
After the fall of Communism in the '90s, television tried to grow, but unfortunately TVR was the only available option and still in the grasp of the Neo-Communists that had come to power. One of the first (free, private) stations was [https://web.archive.org/web/20120224204716/http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Tele7ABC Tele7ABC], but the first mainstream television station to hold its ground as leader even today was Pro TV, ''was created in 1995''.
Film rights and airing were scarce, but televisions tried. While the copyright law made it fair game (''now, in 2010'', in Moldova, there are still reports of movies being aired directly from downloaded from the internet by national stations), we didn't really needed the problems. On the other hand, television ratings were nonexistent until the 2000s (even 2005). This implied nothing short of porn could be aired all day or all night (there were attempts to forbid porn as "violating public morals" or whatever) - 16+ horrors at 8 o'clock, etc, if you can imagine it, it was aired whenever they liked it. This was partly due to the authorities' fear that they'd be accused of limiting the "freedom of the press" ([[Double Standard|while stealing everything there was to steal left from the old regime]]), and coincided with the country's "Wild West / Aggressive Capitalism" period, where almost anything, however legal, semi-legal or ''illegal'' it was, was mostly fair game (short of stealing from someone's house: steal millions of dollars from a bank, split up the profit with the country's rulership, profit; you steal an apple from someone's house, [[Disproportionate Retribution|5 years jail, no discussion]]).
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* The [[Roma]] - their actual number in the general population is not large and never was, yet they are [[Wrong Side of the Tracks|disproportionately represented in the criminal class]]. They suffer from terrible poverty, prejudice against them and "invisibility" - according to a UN survey, Romania is the most highly segregated society in Eastern Europe when it comes to the separation between the Roma and the rest of the population.
* Poverty - most street begging is actually ''professional and profitable'', playing on the [[Chronic Hero Syndrome|compulsive duty of the average Romanian to appear compassionate]].
=== Famous Romanians ===
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* [[Common Knowledge]]: The history curriculum in Romania conflates the Dacians and the Getae, something modern historians aren't very eager to champion (some go so far as to suggest they were two separate tribes of Thracians, the Getae living in southern Romania and the Dacians beyond the Carpathians). This is mostly a legacy of the long Romanian-Hungarian dispute over who "rightfully" owns Transylvania, wherein both sides gleefully bent history to try and fit their own narratives - the Geto-Dacian classification is meant to emphasise the fact that Romanians were there first.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: In practice, less accent on the ''crazy'' part and more on the ''crazily fast''. While may be many crackpot theories to explain the disregard of rules<ref> Don't try. [[Flame War]] ensues.</ref>, in reality the disregard is first and foremost for the police, who are regarded as the most disgusting species of [[Corrupt Hick|CorruptHicks]] on Earth.<ref> Their efforts to prove [[I Am the Trope|they are just that]] [[Sarcasm Mode|are admirable]].</ref>
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* [[Misplaced Nationalism]] and [[Patriotic Fervor]]: Bring up the Hungarian minority's rights, or just Hungary in general, in the right crowd. Make sure you have popcorn.
* [[Nosy Neighbor]]: Description is futile, one has to experience life among them to believe.
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