Dimitriu - When we are the other
Romania would have been considerably different. Such an approach would help the
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target readers to (gradually) give up their unproductive, `small peripheral culture'
inferiority complex and thus de-hegemonize their intercultural relations.
Second, readers would have to question (instead of uncritically submitting to)
and bracket (i.e. see through essentialist tendencies) but not ignore the sometimes
even self-inflicted cliche´ s (particularly the negative ones) which are projected on their