Dimitriu - When we are the other
The social cross-section of the travel books involves, in Murphy's case, close
contacts with ethnic groups living in Romania. Her book is generously dedicated to
her `many good friends in Transylvania and beyond Á Rumanians, Magyars,
Szekelys, Jews, Gypsies, Saxons, Swabians and Serbs'. The ethnic minorities' cultural
behaviour towards the travellers (particularly the Hungarians') tends to be similar to
the Romanians'. The Western foreigners, unquestionably regarded as supporters,
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