Blog Post #1 (What is National Identity)
Moldova Many people have different ideas on what national identity means. How I define national identity are the quality or trait that a country has that defines who they are as a country. Such as, culture, language, government, and religion affect the identity of a nation. Moldova is a small country that is cradled between Romania and Ukraine. Stuck between these two nations influenced Moldova where aspects of Romanian and Ukrainian culture were incorporated into Moldovan culture. For instance, the government of Moldova recognized Romanian to be their official language in their nation ( Roudik 2013 ). As this may seem as a no brainer for many Moldovans as their own language, Moldovan, which is basically the same as Romanian. However, many Moldovans see their language as distinct from Romania, but Romania rejects that idea and says Moldovans speaks the same language (Lobjakas and Valeria...
