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Makale Özeti:
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The concept of risk was defined in general terms or with reference to a specific
aspect of one field of research or another. When the term was regarded at a general
level it was defined, for example, as “the probable frequency and probable
magnitude of future loss” (Jones 2005: 12). Therefore, the most striking effect of or
aspect related to risk is the loss that it engenders. When related to movements in
society at one level or another the notion was viewed in connection with various
aspects such as business, politics, language, health, security, etc. concerning the
evolution of society in a particular concern. In our paper we propose to relate the
risk paradigm to aspects concerning national identity and discuss the manner in
which risk can be registered and/or gauged at the level of preserving the markers of
national identity in the twenty-first century Romania in the context of the new
economic, financial, cultural, political, etc. challenges and factors of change. The
contribution of all these factors can negatively affect the integrity of national
identity and, in time, the weakening or devitalisation of national specificity may
become increasingly discernible.
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