 SPECIFICATIONS REGARDING THE CONTEXTUAL ASPECTS OF ROMANIAN AND JAPANESE PROVERBSSandra-Lucia Istrate ()
Romanian Economic Business Review, 2015, vol. 10, issue 4, 269-277 Abstract: Japan and Romania seem to have totally different cultures. There are thousands of kilometres between these two countries and the common characteristics and features may not be found very easily. The number of the Romanian people that live in Japan and the number of the Japanese people that live in Romania are pretty fractionally and thus, cultural exchanges between the two nations cannot be developed at an impressive level. Therefore, customs, traditions, rites, rituals or even vocabulary and phrases cannot be borrowed. But as yin and yang are present everywhere, in order to discover where “the balance” is, we could make a research regarding the cultural differences between two nations. I’ve thought that a good starting point might be the differences and similarities between Japanese and Romanian proverbs, since in their wisdom we can certainly find a lot of information about the Japanese man and the Romanian one, therefore, about the cultures and the mentalities of these two nations. Keywords: folklore; minzoku; proverb; kotowaza; culture (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rau:journl:v:10:y:2015:i:4:p:269-277 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Romanian Economic Business Review from Romanian-American University Contact information at EDIRC. |
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