Finally,some fellow Transilvanyan explaining the actual face of our homeland. If you ask me,be you foreigner or romanian I whould tell you that Transilvanya is a fairytale place with lush meadows,dense forests and a beatuiful and rich culture,geography and history. So...No garlic needed when you come here(you'll find it in the local cuisine)
About Vlad's nickname, here's most possible explanation that is actually *rooted in reality.* Word Draguljy (Драгуљ) means precious stone, mostly *red ruby,* and lo and behold, Vlad had a HUGE RUBY on his crown's forehead, in all of his portraits. That kind of size of ruby was extremely rare, precocious. The word is old and in use in Vlahia at that time, it also meant something/someone DEAR (dear to the hart) and PRESCIOUS. So his name should be translated as Vladislav The Ruby. :D
Huh. I can't say I've ever thought of Dracula as being degrading to Romanians. I know nothing about any anti-romanian sterotypes, but thank you for the video anyways. I'll keep all of this in mind.
Considering you respond to comments in english I'll do the same. First thing, just found your channel and subbed. Cool idea. Keep at it. "And of course the romanis blessed us with several great musicians" - hoping that's sarcasm. Hara and Tamango tried some really cool stuff, but unfortunately that didn't stick. Party music is also ok. Manele is neither of that. The messages are shallow (unlike good rap), no drops (unlike most EDM variants), no catchiness (unlike pop), and no riffs/varied instrumentations (unlike rock). Don't get me started on "how bad it's to be poor" songs when they're rich af. Anyway rant over.
At 24:29 that right-stealing meme of the hungarians is no joke. In schools, banning to learn the hungarian language, banning to sing the hungarian or székely anthems, removing or re-writing history are very sad things. Our existance is mocked and starts to fade away. And these things do not just happen here but all in Vajdaság, Fölvidék, and, where the situation is the worst: Kárpátalja. I did not mean to offend, but make the people remember: hungarian culture is under attack in silent or other ways. Stay strong and Szebb jövőt!🇭🇺
Nobody is banning the Hungarian anthem or the Hungarian language in Transylvanian schools. I attended a Hungarian-speaking high school in Cluj/Kolozsvar, and nobody ever had a problem with us speaking Hungarian, or attending March 15th marches with Hungarian flags and singing the Hungarian anthem on the street. The university I went to is also partially named after a Hungarian mathematician, and offers Hungarian classes in multiple faculties. I volunteered at the Kolozsvari Magyar Napok (Hungarian Cultural days of Cluj) severa times, and nobody ever complained to us for celebrating the Hungarian culture for an entire week in the city center. I work at a company now that has around 30% Hungarian-speaking employees and nobody minds if we talk in Hungarian at the office. The only time I ever feel hostility is for a few days after FIDESZ or some radical Hungarian nationalists cause some controversies. Other than that, if you don't attack Romanian culture, they won't attack Hungarian culture either. We just wanna chill together.
Considering Viktor Orban and many other Hungarian ultra nationalists want to make Transylvania part of Hungary again (which is one of the reasons why Orban is so pro Putin and pro changing the territorial order of the East), I would have some concerns if I were Romanian...
Of course Romanian and especially Transylvanian culture and folklore are very rich, but you show a very extreme contempt against the West, as if trying to make up for some kind of complexes. I lived in Romania, on and off, for several years, I'm a lover of folklore, traditions and mythology, and whether you like it or not most of the stereotypes about Romania are absolutely true. You can call Western people ignorant and xenophobic and anti communist or whatever, but that won't change the reality (and that only shows you are terribly xenophobic and full of hate). Except for the very very centre of some few historical cities, all the rest of Romania and Transylvania is very "soviet" style, even the outskirts of such cities (and I don't dislike that, I should say, but it is hilarious that you deny this reality). Not everything is about vampires, but definitely Romanian folklore and popular traditions have a massive eerie vibe that matches completely the image Romania has outside. Not to mention that Romanians themselves, in their majority, exploit that too (I see you put many images of Cluj, where most youngsters are very goth, and the vampire thing is very exploited, even if the city is far from the Carpathian actual "vampiric" areas). Most villages in Transylvania have indeed a lot of legends and popular believes and habits related with "vampires" and such. There are many other things, of course, but what I mentioned is definitely the most notorious. It is nice that you try to explore the so many aspects of Romanian folklore, but you use that knowledge merely as a weapon to insult and hate Westerners or people from the outside. And I must say, from my experience in Romania, that sadly, hyper nationalist attitudes have become way too common, and fascism is spreading like crazy, very especially in the metal/blackmetal/goth/etc scenes (and not just that) where people are using Romanian myths and folklore as an instrument for that hyper nationalistic thing (scenes to which you clearly belong to btw). In the West obviously people know that things are not like a videogame says, etc, (so, please, don't be silly) and the general image is that Romania is a mix of old and modern. You have a dysfunctional obsession with what supposedly Western media says about Romania, as if you are stuck in early 80's. I've lived all across West Europe for decades, and I have never seen the depiction of Romania of which you weep so much about. That is only you mixing personal complexes with many prejudges. In movies most of British architecture looks gothic too, but they don't victimise like you do, because obviously people know there are more variety. That happens with all countries in movies and stuff. Please stop such hysterical victimism, and stop being so brutally obssessed with the West, the West has not the fault of your complexes and your issues. Btw, given that you are so proud of being Romanian, at least you should know that Dracul was the word for dragon in medieval times, and it was only much later that Dracul started to be used for diabolic. Btw, I see you brag about the economy growth of Cluj (again the complexes). The economy of Cluj is fine, but nothing to be proud of: it is a hyper expensive city for what it is, prizes are like in a mayor North European capital, but Cluj obviously is not London, nor Amsterdam (though some people there are so delusional they compare Cluj with NY). The economical bubble of Cluj is INSANE, people are using neo liberalism as a toy and they fake high prizes for everything, the atmosphere is terribly greedy. And you should know what happen with artificial economical bubbles, they explode because they rely on amounts of money that do not exist.
The myth of the Daco-Roman people and Daco-Roman continuity has long been dismantled with real data from the historical sciences, so the Romanians they make fools of themselves with this absolutely unfounded theories! That is why Romanian historians and politicians are profoundly silent about the serious genetic research that has recently been published in scientific journals, in which a pioneering research on the origin of DNA covering Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia, Romania, Albania and Greece about the structure genetics of the Balkan population! Because Romania also took part in this research, but they did not expect this result, that it was clearly revealed that Romanians are 50-60% of Balkan Slavic origin, moreover, they come from the Slavs, for whom there is accurate data that only from the 7th century they began to migrate from north to south! That is why all those Romanian linguists were silenced from the 19th century onwards, who said that the Romanian language was at least 40% Slavic in origin, and since then several Latinizing language reforms have been carried out since Cuza's time! The professor and archaeologist specialist in ancient history Visy Zsolt says in an interview that he studied all the real documents about the Dacians for many years, but he also participated in many archaeological excavations where Dacian settlements were found, and he came to the conclusion that these settlements did not have had a long continuity nowhere after the Roman conquest! The professor says that there are contemporary descriptions showing that most of the Dacians were slaughtered by the Romans, especially the men, and those who remained were sold as slaves. But there is no data at all about a Romanized population, especially since in this province occupied with many wars, the Romans brought populations from all parts of the empire, among which very few were original Roman citizens from Italy! The professor also says, but many people wrote about it even before that, that nowhere in the world could the Romans Romanize a people by force in just 160 years! After all, if we don't consider the Jews and the Greeks, who were under the Latin-speaking Roman rule for almost five hundred years, but even among the Gauls and other Celtic tribes, this process took more than five hundred years and they never fully Latinized! He says that especially after the withdrawal of the Romans from the province of Dacia in the north of the Danube, neither the Dacian elements nor the Roman elements can be found anywhere, not even in the parts not occupied by the Romans, which means that the Dacians as a population with a specific culture in the settlements, they completely disappeared in these 160 years, but the Roman population also left here! No matter how much some Romanian archeologists searched, especially during Ceausescu's time, the truth is that they did not find anything concrete and then they started to issue some absolutely unfounded theories! In the historical sciences, you have to have more concrete data to prove something, especially if we are talking about the presence of an entire population in a territory! We need contemporary sources, that is, primary sources, which attest to the presence of a population, and then if archaeological evidence and possibly toponymic data from the same life are also found, then we can say that that population lived there in those centuries! But no matter how much it hurts the Romanians, there is no data about the Latinized Dacians, not even from lower Moesia and Illyria, nor are there any archaeological data, because what 99% of Romanians don't know is that the Dacians had a very distinct culture, which for example differed from the Getae and from the Thracians too! The problem is that there are no short texts of the Daco-Romanians in the language if or in Latin at least. At least from the Middle Ages if there was any text in the Dacian language or some references to the Daco-Romans, but there is neither one nor the other! Anyway, no one with serious knowledge of history believes that the descendants of the Dacians would have fallen so far to completely forget the language and writing of their ancestors in just 160 years! Or that the descendants of the Dacians or the Romanians completely forgot to at least build houses and churches out of stone! Not to mention cities, fortresses, castles and palaces, or tombs carved out of stone, or reliefs and statues, statuary monuments, cobbled roads and aqueducts! All of this is completely missing, and not even a thousand years later in the Middle Ages did the Romanians build such monuments! Nestor's chronicle proves absolutely nothing about the presence of Romanians in Transylvania, especially because Nestor lived in the 12th century, and he probably wrote this chronicle towards the end of his life, after 1110, so the chronicle was written over two centuries after those 9th century events! This is exactly the problem with the chronicle of Anonymus who wrote his chronicle after three centuries and not about the Vlachs but about the Karluk Blaks, because in those centuries many stories were born, especially because there are no established historians to study the real data from the archives to analyze and filter them properly! Not to mention that in the Middle Ages there are no auxiliary sciences of history, which are all the sciences that study documentary sources and develop their research methodology! However we take it, to demonstrate the presence of a population on a territory, in the historical sciences you need primary sources first of all, at least two primary sources and preferably from different sources! But primary sources do not exist at all about Wallachians from the 9th century, because the first data about a Wallachian population appear only in the 10th century, and they are all mentioned well south of the Danube in the Balkans!
This is a perfect exemple of 19th century delusional extremist nationalistic discourse. I will copy and read it with my friends 21st century friends. Just for laughs.
So instead of being an interesting location with rich myths and folklore, Transylvania is boring and the same as everywhere else? I don't think your local tourism industry will thank you for this.
Big thanks to Isabelle for collaborating with me on this video! Check out her website: www.isabellerizo.com/
So much fun collaborating with @analewild on this!
Am visitat Transilvania de mai multe ori dar mereu cand merg acolo gasesc chestii noi care imi captivează atentia.
Salutari de la un vrâncean
As a Hungarian with Szekely heritage living not so far from Huddersfield in Brexitland, I had a few good giggles!
Hei ce tare, salutări din Harghita, super tare video, tot așa mai departe!
Mândru să fiu un cetățean al Transilvaniei. Doamne ajută!
Finally,some fellow Transilvanyan explaining the actual face of our homeland.
If you ask me,be you foreigner or romanian I whould tell you that Transilvanya is a fairytale place with lush meadows,dense forests and a beatuiful and rich culture,geography and history.
So...No garlic needed when you come here(you'll find it in the local cuisine)
I wish more people saw this
Haha atat de relatabil. Dau share!
Nice, my.like 👍
I been here before 14 days
Fascinating, the girl from Germany, her commentary is litteraly not a Romanian thought process but a woke westerner.
The editing is awesome and so is the accent! Maybe we could work together on future projects! 😀
Thank you! I have a few projects in progress right now, but we could work on something after October.
Great video!
Foarte relatabil, dau share!
About Vlad's nickname, here's most possible explanation that is actually *rooted in reality.* Word Draguljy (Драгуљ) means precious stone, mostly *red ruby,* and lo and behold, Vlad had a HUGE RUBY on his crown's forehead, in all of his portraits. That kind of size of ruby was extremely rare, precocious. The word is old and in use in Vlahia at that time, it also meant something/someone DEAR (dear to the hart) and PRESCIOUS.
So his name should be translated as Vladislav The Ruby. :D
2:45 "diverse architecture"
*MEC*
Where can i find the water pixie comic?
She - "Everything you know about Transylvania is WRONG!"
Me - laughing in transylvanian... 😅😂🤣
🇭🇺❤️🇷🇴:D
Marosvahely mentioned ☝️☝️☝️☝️
hey, I'm happy to help if you need a hand with the script from RO in EN and such, really enjoyed the vid
How do you know the woman from Sibiu actually said Necuratu'?
Sounds plausible, but just the same, she could have said Nefărtatu'
Huh. I can't say I've ever thought of Dracula as being degrading to Romanians. I know nothing about any anti-romanian sterotypes, but thank you for the video anyways. I'll keep all of this in mind.
Considering you respond to comments in english I'll do the same.
First thing, just found your channel and subbed. Cool idea. Keep at it.
"And of course the romanis blessed us with several great musicians" - hoping that's sarcasm.
Hara and Tamango tried some really cool stuff, but unfortunately that didn't stick. Party music is also ok.
Manele is neither of that. The messages are shallow (unlike good rap), no drops (unlike most EDM variants), no catchiness (unlike pop), and no riffs/varied instrumentations (unlike rock).
Don't get me started on "how bad it's to be poor" songs when they're rich af. Anyway rant over.
27:16 De când? Sarpărea că am fost mințit toată viața. Haha!
Actually, I wasn’t wrong. My nation’s members live there.
For a șogoriță, you ain't half bad 😁 glad you didn't call our Daco-Roman ancestry " propaganda "... like the hungolian revanchists. ✌
Me, a Romanian:"Yes, this is right"
At 24:29 that right-stealing meme of the hungarians is no joke. In schools, banning to learn the hungarian language, banning to sing the hungarian or székely anthems, removing or re-writing history are very sad things. Our existance is mocked and starts to fade away. And these things do not just happen here but all in Vajdaság, Fölvidék, and, where the situation is the worst: Kárpátalja. I did not mean to offend, but make the people remember: hungarian culture is under attack in silent or other ways. Stay strong and Szebb jövőt!🇭🇺
Nobody is banning the Hungarian anthem or the Hungarian language in Transylvanian schools. I attended a Hungarian-speaking high school in Cluj/Kolozsvar, and nobody ever had a problem with us speaking Hungarian, or attending March 15th marches with Hungarian flags and singing the Hungarian anthem on the street. The university I went to is also partially named after a Hungarian mathematician, and offers Hungarian classes in multiple faculties. I volunteered at the Kolozsvari Magyar Napok (Hungarian Cultural days of Cluj) severa times, and nobody ever complained to us for celebrating the Hungarian culture for an entire week in the city center. I work at a company now that has around 30% Hungarian-speaking employees and nobody minds if we talk in Hungarian at the office. The only time I ever feel hostility is for a few days after FIDESZ or some radical Hungarian nationalists cause some controversies. Other than that, if you don't attack Romanian culture, they won't attack Hungarian culture either. We just wanna chill together.
true singing the hungarian anthem was banned in my cousin's school
Considering Viktor Orban and many other Hungarian ultra nationalists want to make Transylvania part of Hungary again (which is one of the reasons why Orban is so pro Putin and pro changing the territorial order of the East), I would have some concerns if I were Romanian...
@@AnnaLeWild spot on
First
I love you! You are very onest. And yes this west deserve some lecture. Thank you!
Strigoi comes from east wendic striga and vampire from upir, upior.
Ironic i ca conceptu de "imperialism vestic" care afecteaza imaginea transilvaniei i insusi un export cultural vestic.
Tu-ți crucea mă-tii youtube, de ce nu trimiți notificări!!!!!
Of course Romanian and especially Transylvanian culture and folklore are very rich, but you show a very extreme contempt against the West, as if trying to make up for some kind of complexes. I lived in Romania, on and off, for several years, I'm a lover of folklore, traditions and mythology, and whether you like it or not most of the stereotypes about Romania are absolutely true. You can call Western people ignorant and xenophobic and anti communist or whatever, but that won't change the reality (and that only shows you are terribly xenophobic and full of hate). Except for the very very centre of some few historical cities, all the rest of Romania and Transylvania is very "soviet" style, even the outskirts of such cities (and I don't dislike that, I should say, but it is hilarious that you deny this reality). Not everything is about vampires, but definitely Romanian folklore and popular traditions have a massive eerie vibe that matches completely the image Romania has outside. Not to mention that Romanians themselves, in their majority, exploit that too (I see you put many images of Cluj, where most youngsters are very goth, and the vampire thing is very exploited, even if the city is far from the Carpathian actual "vampiric" areas). Most villages in Transylvania have indeed a lot of legends and popular believes and habits related with "vampires" and such. There are many other things, of course, but what I mentioned is definitely the most notorious. It is nice that you try to explore the so many aspects of Romanian folklore, but you use that knowledge merely as a weapon to insult and hate Westerners or people from the outside. And I must say, from my experience in Romania, that sadly, hyper nationalist attitudes have become way too common, and fascism is spreading like crazy, very especially in the metal/blackmetal/goth/etc scenes (and not just that) where people are using Romanian myths and folklore as an instrument for that hyper nationalistic thing (scenes to which you clearly belong to btw). In the West obviously people know that things are not like a videogame says, etc, (so, please, don't be silly) and the general image is that Romania is a mix of old and modern. You have a dysfunctional obsession with what supposedly Western media says about Romania, as if you are stuck in early 80's. I've lived all across West Europe for decades, and I have never seen the depiction of Romania of which you weep so much about. That is only you mixing personal complexes with many prejudges. In movies most of British architecture looks gothic too, but they don't victimise like you do, because obviously people know there are more variety. That happens with all countries in movies and stuff. Please stop such hysterical victimism, and stop being so brutally obssessed with the West, the West has not the fault of your complexes and your issues. Btw, given that you are so proud of being Romanian, at least you should know that Dracul was the word for dragon in medieval times, and it was only much later that Dracul started to be used for diabolic. Btw, I see you brag about the economy growth of Cluj (again the complexes). The economy of Cluj is fine, but nothing to be proud of: it is a hyper expensive city for what it is, prizes are like in a mayor North European capital, but Cluj obviously is not London, nor Amsterdam (though some people there are so delusional they compare Cluj with NY). The economical bubble of Cluj is INSANE, people are using neo liberalism as a toy and they fake high prizes for everything, the atmosphere is terribly greedy. And you should know what happen with artificial economical bubbles, they explode because they rely on amounts of money that do not exist.
The myth of the Daco-Roman people and Daco-Roman continuity has long been dismantled with real data from the historical sciences, so the Romanians they make fools of themselves with this absolutely unfounded theories! That is why Romanian historians and politicians are profoundly silent about the serious genetic research that has recently been published in scientific journals, in which a pioneering research on the origin of DNA covering Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia, Romania, Albania and Greece about the structure genetics of the Balkan population! Because Romania also took part in this research, but they did not expect this result, that it was clearly revealed that Romanians are 50-60% of Balkan Slavic origin, moreover, they come from the Slavs, for whom there is accurate data that only from the 7th century they began to migrate from north to south! That is why all those Romanian linguists were silenced from the 19th century onwards, who said that the Romanian language was at least 40% Slavic in origin, and since then several Latinizing language reforms have been carried out since Cuza's time! The professor and archaeologist specialist in ancient history Visy Zsolt says in an interview that he studied all the real documents about the Dacians for many years, but he also participated in many archaeological excavations where Dacian settlements were found, and he came to the conclusion that these settlements did not have had a long continuity nowhere after the Roman conquest! The professor says that there are contemporary descriptions showing that most of the Dacians were slaughtered by the Romans, especially the men, and those who remained were sold as slaves. But there is no data at all about a Romanized population, especially since in this province occupied with many wars, the Romans brought populations from all parts of the empire, among which very few were original Roman citizens from Italy! The professor also says, but many people wrote about it even before that, that nowhere in the world could the Romans Romanize a people by force in just 160 years! After all, if we don't consider the Jews and the Greeks, who were under the Latin-speaking Roman rule for almost five hundred years, but even among the Gauls and other Celtic tribes, this process took more than five hundred years and they never fully Latinized! He says that especially after the withdrawal of the Romans from the province of Dacia in the north of the Danube, neither the Dacian elements nor the Roman elements can be found anywhere, not even in the parts not occupied by the Romans, which means that the Dacians as a population with a specific culture in the settlements, they completely disappeared in these 160 years, but the Roman population also left here! No matter how much some Romanian archeologists searched, especially during Ceausescu's time, the truth is that they did not find anything concrete and then they started to issue some absolutely unfounded theories! In the historical sciences, you have to have more concrete data to prove something, especially if we are talking about the presence of an entire population in a territory! We need contemporary sources, that is, primary sources, which attest to the presence of a population, and then if archaeological evidence and possibly toponymic data from the same life are also found, then we can say that that population lived there in those centuries! But no matter how much it hurts the Romanians, there is no data about the Latinized Dacians, not even from lower Moesia and Illyria, nor are there any archaeological data, because what 99% of Romanians don't know is that the Dacians had a very distinct culture, which for example differed from the Getae and from the Thracians too! The problem is that there are no short texts of the Daco-Romanians in the language if or in Latin at least. At least from the Middle Ages if there was any text in the Dacian language or some references to the Daco-Romans, but there is neither one nor the other! Anyway, no one with serious knowledge of history believes that the descendants of the Dacians would have fallen so far to completely forget the language and writing of their ancestors in just 160 years! Or that the descendants of the Dacians or the Romanians completely forgot to at least build houses and churches out of stone! Not to mention cities, fortresses, castles and palaces, or tombs carved out of stone, or reliefs and statues, statuary monuments, cobbled roads and aqueducts! All of this is completely missing, and not even a thousand years later in the Middle Ages did the Romanians build such monuments! Nestor's chronicle proves absolutely nothing about the presence of Romanians in Transylvania, especially because Nestor lived in the 12th century, and he probably wrote this chronicle towards the end of his life, after 1110, so the chronicle was written over two centuries after those 9th century events! This is exactly the problem with the chronicle of Anonymus who wrote his chronicle after three centuries and not about the Vlachs but about the Karluk Blaks, because in those centuries many stories were born, especially because there are no established historians to study the real data from the archives to analyze and filter them properly! Not to mention that in the Middle Ages there are no auxiliary sciences of history, which are all the sciences that study documentary sources and develop their research methodology! However we take it, to demonstrate the presence of a population on a territory, in the historical sciences you need primary sources first of all, at least two primary sources and preferably from different sources! But primary sources do not exist at all about Wallachians from the 9th century, because the first data about a Wallachian population appear only in the 10th century, and they are all mentioned well south of the Danube in the Balkans!
This is a perfect exemple of 19th century delusional extremist nationalistic discourse. I will copy and read it with my friends 21st century friends. Just for laughs.
Man did you read the study? I did it and i can tell you are delusional. Or you don't understand what you read!
@@NicolaeBendea It's not true, this is real history based on the real data, and it bothers the hell out of the wild Roman nacionalist dakopats!
So instead of being an interesting location with rich myths and folklore, Transylvania is boring and the same as everywhere else?
I don't think your local tourism industry will thank you for this.