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Europe's South Americans

Journalist Lucian Mindruta of the Romanian weekly Dilema Veche sees nothing but expensive cars in his neighbourhood, and asks whether Romania is on its way to becoming a rich country: "Our cars demonstrate exactly the opposite: that we are poor but do not want to show it. This idea was tested in an American study carried out among Africans and South Americans, social groups that are clearly poorer than average. The authors observed the same trend among both groups. People with less money spend 25 percent more money on cars, clothes and jewellery than the majority. This money has to come from somewhere. The people studied spent less on their own education and entertainment, putting their money into things you can see. ... You buy a watch instead of an encyclopaedia. ... Clearly, we in Romania are Europe's South Americans. Poorer than the rest and yet determined to forget this fact, we are terribly anxious to appear rich. ... That only shows how poor we really are, as people and as a nation."

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