Dimitriu - When we are the other
West to the Balkans, the West to the Orient, the strange and alien to what she regards
as `us':
And yet, I'm also pretty sure that [. . .] despite the obstacles, the corruptions, the
strangeness of professional relations Á the desire to help and do some good exists here as
well, in its peculiar and, to us, alien forms. (Hoffman, 1999, pp. 299Á300; italics mine)
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