Cultural Integration through Foreign Languages Study (18th - 20th Centuries)

A historical study on the penetration of French language in Romanian culture and the important role of education in spreading this language undoubtedly contributes to a better understanding of the beginnings of Romania’s opening to the West and to its ​​humanistic values. This intercultural research aims to identify and analyze the contextual factors that favored the connection of Romanian culture to the western cultures, the transfer of norms and cultural values, ​​and the evolution of schooling in relation to social class structure

The Memory of a Generation and the Ethnic Identity Revitalization

This paper addresses the question of mnemonic traces in connection with the identity dynamics of an ethnic group from a highly multicultural area in the ​​South-Eastern part of Romania: the Lipovans, Russian Old Believers, from the village of Jurilovca. From a constructivist perspective, we argue that the digital content provided by the village digital library and by the ‘blog’ (the dynamic website) of the community allows, over the experiences of participation and sharing (through each comment, information and video being posted or through their simple reading which may trigger forms of remembering) to build a virtual community around a focus, a person, an event able to reactivate the social and ethnic memory, thereby contributing to reinvent and revitalize the individual and collective ethnic identity of a generation

Therapeutic Use of Some Romanian Medicinal Plants

Romanian traditional medicine has an extremely old history. The Dacian knowledge of the curative properties of medicinal plants was documented by Herodotus, Hippocrates, Galen, and Dioscorides. It must be emphasized that modern chemical screening has confirmed the therapeutic properties of the medicinal plants used by the Dacians. More interesting is that Dacians used many of these herbs for different dishes. Practically, for Dacians, food was medicine. Recent research on some Romanian medicinal plants has highlighted their pharmacognostical importance. It is known that currently, the importance and dynamics of the research on medicinal plants in the area of drug discovery continues to increase worldwide. The main reason is not only the high efficiency of secondary metabolites in case of serious diseases (cancer, viral infections, malaria, etc.) but also the minimization of the side effects of the synthetic drugs