Break free from communism and I guess anything's possible.
Romania has passed a law banning gender studies and educational institutions from promoting gender identities divorced from biological sex, joining the ranks of Central European countries Hungary and Poland to require a more traditional approach to gender theory.
Possible downside: where is Bucharest supposed to get its Starbucks baristas and McDonald's drive-through window people?
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I have been, uh, chided (I guess would be the right term) by those higher up than me because I have been frank in the classroom to my students for them to avoid what I call the "identity studies" fields - nothing good will come from it and they will end up embittered, angry, and underemployed.
Unfortunately, too many still have to learn the hard way.
I wonder how difficult it would be to learn Romanian at my age? (66). I did once show a high aptitude for languages.
The climate is a little rough there compared to North Texas, but maybe cultural sanity is worth it.
Well, Frank, you'd have to become Orthodox, so that's a problem, based on your twitter handle. Try Poland or Hungary.
As we seem to be here, in the US, slipping into Marxism, eastern Europe is a beacon of light, as we used to be to them.
eastern Europe is a beacon of light, as we used to be to them.
... and Christianity got its start where?
It didn't start in eastern Europe, ur.
MD Teacher, too late for past classroom discussions, but in view of the current hysteria, it might be good to confine yourself to encouraging constructive "real" fields of study, which will lead to real jobs, rather than criticizing the "studies" fields.
Romanian is pretty close to Italian which is pretty close to Latin so if you've got that down, you shouldn't have too many problems. But if we're heading to Marxism, I'm going to take the one really foot-to-the-floorboards stupid purchase I ever made, my KJV lectern Bible, and hitting the road. I'm going to die alone anyway so I might as well die outside so any interested and presumably hungry animal can have whatever's left. Might as well have some kind of actual impact on the world. :-)
Katherine - I usually preface the comments with advice to seek some kind of skill. I'm already encouraging my children (who are all still in the single digits) to do things with their hands in addition to intellectual pursuits. College at this rate is something we're gonna refuse to pay for.
CJ - sounds like it could be an alternative version of The Book of Eli
I guess I should read that. ;-)
Frank and Chris,
My understanding is that Romanian is the closest of the European languages to classical Latin. So, if you ever took Latin, you're pretty good to go.
Katherine,
Alice Linsley was an Episcopal priest, but disavowed her ordination and became Orthodox, so it's possible for people from other religious backgrounds to swim the Bosporus.
My only issue with Orthodoxy is that it seems very culture-specific. There's a beautiful Greek Orthodox church near me, but I'm not Greek, so I wonder how I would fit in.
Oh, it's possible, and I know someone who went from Episcopalian to Orthodox (Greek). But our friend Frank, above, uses a Twitter handle suggesting he's a traditionalist Catholic. It is indeed a cultural problem to leave Catholicism and become Orthodox. Actually, I find there's some of that when considering being Roman Catholic instead of Anglican.
I do the best I can, and I trust the LORD will correct me when I see Him face to face.
Thanks all. I took three years of Latin in high school, much of which I’ve long since forgotten, but I do like to read daily prayers in Latin and attend the occasional Latin Mass. On the other hand, Katherine, you’re right in that it would be a serious issue for me to go the Orthodox route. Maybe Polish is the way to go. There are a few Catholics there, I’ve heard. 😁
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