The Values of the Romanians 1993-2006 - Bogdan Voicu, Malina Voicu

Major national or a global economic crisis can determine fast and longterm returns to traditional values, in the conditions in which the value orientations associated to modernity are not yet strongly consolidated in the Romanian structure of the culture. This can happen in the case of important increases of intolerance levels in the Western societies, with an explicit or diffuse direction towards emigrants, including Romanian emigrants. It is very unlikely that other stagnations of post-modernization in the West would significantly affect the value changes in Romania. As I have already shown, modernization is much more relevant in Romania than post-modernization. This makes the variations of post-modernization in other societies less likely to affect our own modernization process by contagiousness, even if the respective societies are the ones relevant for Romanians as reference group.
Bogdan Voicu