What Swedes know about Romania

As a good Romanian, I was of course interested to find out what Swedes know about Romania and Romanian people.

This is going to be a really short post because I asked around and found out that they know almost NOTHING- nästan INGETING.

Young people have no idea about Romania. Adults have a little bit of knowledge. They heard or know a little bit about:

• Dracula and Transilvania (and they ask where is precisely)


• Ceausescu (they know it was a really bad guy)


• Gypsies (that we exported to Italy and Spain); they are too polite to consider all Romanians like them


• Hagi (just because they love football and respect someone who is valuable)


• The fact that Romania is located in the Eastern Europe and we speak a Latin language
  

This would be all that an average adult (not a teenager!) would know about Romania.

As a good Romanian, I make sure they understand we have a beautiful (“honey and milk”) country, and I hope they won’t go there and realize I lied to them so bad!