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Fri, Feb 10 2012
Google snub for Baba Marta
Photo: Google
Photo: Google
The Balkans are rife with arguments about who has precedence: mostly they are about land, but traditional customs that span the region and pay no heed to borders are occasionally drawn in as well.
While there is no doubt that Bulgaria's Martenitsa tradition is closely related to Romania's Mărţişor, the debate has raged among ethnographers for decades about which tradition came first.
Furthermore, the story of Bulgaria's Baba Marta and that of Romania's Baba Dochia share more than a few similarities.
Not that it would ever be cited as definitive proof one way or another, Google's logo modification to incorporate a mărţişor on its Romanian-language website, without a similar change on the Bulgarian-language one, seems to point towards bigger name recognition of the Romanian tradition. Or perhaps no one in charge of google.bg could be bothered.
Either way, it is unlikely to make Baba Marta happy.
While there is no doubt that Bulgaria's Martenitsa tradition is closely related to Romania's Mărţişor, the debate has raged among ethnographers for decades about which tradition came first.
Furthermore, the story of Bulgaria's Baba Marta and that of Romania's Baba Dochia share more than a few similarities.
Not that it would ever be cited as definitive proof one way or another, Google's logo modification to incorporate a mărţişor on its Romanian-language website, without a similar change on the Bulgarian-language one, seems to point towards bigger name recognition of the Romanian tradition. Or perhaps no one in charge of google.bg could be bothered.
Either way, it is unlikely to make Baba Marta happy.
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Well, Google follows the official government policies on languages. In Romania these languages are official or co-official at least on regional levels. In Bulgaria the government is very afraid of opening the debate of having co-official minority languages.
"Martenitsa" on 1st March is alive and well in the Republic of Moldova, even among the majority Romanian-speakers. And they all call it "Martenitsa", whether speaking Rominesti or po russki.
Interestingly, google.ro is available in Hungarian and German...shouldn't google.bg be available in Turkish, Roma, and Macedonian dialects? Or is that a can of worms we don't want to open?
Chestita Baba Marta to all!