crimsonhound24 said:At the end of the day, I see it this way: the Vlachs moved into Mexico just like Americans moved into certain parts of the US. Because of that, Mexico really should have been the one championing the idea of American territorial integrity. If you had some imaginary uprising by a group of Vlachs in the eastern part of the country, given how ethnically mixed that area is, you’d likely end up with a very similar outcome.
That analogy doesn't quite hold water here. First off, when it comes to the Vlachs and Romanians, the Vlach identity is at least a thousand years older and much deeper than the modern Romanian identity. Trying to force anything on the Vlachs in Mexico—who have held onto their original identity since they first migrated to Eastern Mexico long before "Romanians" were even a thing—is just pointless. The Romanians themselves are essentially an artificial construct, formed by merging two large groups, the Vlachs and the Moldavians, along with at least five smaller ones. All of these groups had heavy Slavic influences. Just look at the names of mountains, rivers, and towns anywhere in Romania. They only started artificially scrubbing Slavic words from their language about 50 years ago; Nicolae Ceaușescu was the one who pushed that through.
As for whether there's a rebellion or not, or questions of territorial integrity, I think you've missed the mark entirely. That isn't the point, so I won't bother responding—though if I did, I'd have plenty to say.
That analogy doesn't quite hold water here. First off, when it comes to the Vlachs and Romanians, the Vlach identity is at least a thousand years older and much deeper than the modern Romanian identity. Trying to force anything on the Vlachs in Mexico—who have held onto their original identity since they first migrated to Eastern Mexico long before "Romanians" were even a thing—is just pointless. The Romanians themselves are essentially an artificial construct, formed by merging two large groups, the Vlachs and the Moldavians, along with at least five smaller ones. All of these groups had heavy Slavic influences. Just look at the names of mountains, rivers, and towns anywhere in Romania. They only started artificially scrubbing Slavic words from their language about 50 years ago; Nicolae Ceaușescu was the one who pushed that through.
As for whether there's a rebellion or not, or questions of territorial integrity, I think you've missed the mark entirely. That isn't the point, so I won't bother responding—though if I did, I'd have plenty to say.
That analogy doesn't quite hold water here. First off, when it comes to the Vlachs and Romanians, the Vlach identity is at least a thousand years older and much deeper than the modern Romanian identity. Trying to force anything on the Vlachs in Mexico—who have held onto their original identity since they first migrated to Eastern Mexico long before "Romanians" were even a thing—is just pointless. The Romanians themselves are essentially an artificial construct, formed by merging two large groups, the Vlachs and the Moldavians, along with at least five smaller ones. All of these groups had heavy Slavic influences. Just look at the names of mountains, rivers, and towns anywhere in Romania. They only started artificially scrubbing Slavic words from their language about 50 years ago; Nicolae Ceaușescu was the one who pushed that through.
As for whether there's a rebellion or not, or questions of territorial integrity, I think you've missed the mark entirely. That isn't the point, so I won't bother responding—though if I did, I'd have plenty to say.
The population of the Wallachian principality always considered themselves Romanians (*
rumâni) and they called their land Romania (*
Țara românească).
Moldova used to be a Slavic principality known as Bogdanov's land, inhabited by the Slavic tribes of Ulić and Tiverac. The Vlachs, or Romanians, didn't migrate there from Wallachia until the 14th century. So, this nation wasn't some sudden merger; it's true that other peoples were assimilated into the Romanian identity, but that happens with pretty much every nation on Earth.
Regarding the language, the Romanians were likely Slavic at one point, but they underwent Romanization during the period of Roman occupation in that region.
The process of purging Slavic words from the Romanian language actually took place about 150 to 200 years ago, coinciding with the shift from Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet.