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traditional Balkan idiotism - how true + true




Thus Dracula will make money even centuries after his death. But how about the minister's promise to make Romania looks like Cote d'Azur (which is situated in France for the most of the time)? Well, this is an odd story mixing the traditional Balkan idiotism and the jealousy towards the neighboring country, Bulgaria in our case. Romanian Tourist minister has been very impressed by the fact that the neighbors from the South (Bulgarians) are decorating their beaches with palm trees (these trees are imported from further south and are used only to make impression that you're somewhere in the tropics). So he has decided to do the same and has ordered several hundred palm trees from Greece. 

To think that these palm trees can turn Romania or Bulgaria into new Cote d'Azur is the same as to think that drinking Coke will make Romanians and Bulgarians to behave like Americans.