Moldovan/Romanian GEDmatch Resuts

[Aspirin]

By the way, the song in the beginning sounds very Bulgarian, even though it's sung in Romanian. That's not typical. Perhaps there's something to this.

Typical local Moldavian folk music, nothing Bulgarian.

[Ion Basescul]

Gagauz are ridiculous people. Why are they obsessed with Russians and the Russian language? They aren't even anywhere close to the Russian border.
I think they should be Romanianized/Moldovanized and become part of the nation they live in.

You can see their perspective here.
I personally don't have a problem with them being russophones in their autonomy. All the Gagauz people that I've ever known in Chisinau spoke decent Romanian. They are just not incentivised to use it in the autonomy, since their population is very homogeneous and Russian is native for them. Ironically they received autonomy, but instead of using its benefits to preserve their Turkic language, they started teaching mainly in Russian. The media is also mostly Russian. So they are now in a situation were Gagauz is a dying language, which is kept on life support by Turkish investments.

[Ion Basescul]

Typical local Moldavian folk music, nothing Bulgarian.

For me typical is something akin to Zinaida Julea, but I'm also not very familiar with the folklore.

[Aspirin]

Gagauz are ridiculous people. Why are they obsessed with Russians and the Russian language? They aren't even anywhere close to the Russian border.
I think they should be Romanianized/Moldovanized and become part of the nation they live in.

Too late, most of them are pro-Russian or pro-Turkey, and majority of them speak more Russian than their native language.

[Roy]

Yes, they do, and I have to admit it's noticeable difference. They dress very tasteful and stylish, both young men and women.

What about Poles? I think many dress well but mostly in bigger cities like Warsaw or Wrocław. Elsewhere ... you can even find what we call Faszyn from Raszyn, Raszyn is a village near Warsaw ... and many who don't care either. And it sounds like Russian in English too.

[Roy]

Too late, most of them are pro-Russian or pro-Turkey, and majority of them speak more Russian than their native language.

What Moldovans think about Transnistria? Do they visit this place at all?

[Leto]

Too late, most of them are pro-Russian or pro-Turkey, and majority of them speak more Russian than their native language.

I wouldn't mind them leaving Moldova for Russia altogether
Better than any fucking Muslims.

But the point is they are genetically almost completely native to the region.

By the way, I think there were some questions in the PMs I sent you some days ago. About the Romanian language in Moldova.

[Aspirin]

For me typical is something akin to Zinaida Julea, but I'm also not very familiar with the folklore.

That is bullshit commercial folklore with roots in Lautar music, peasant music is different, more simplistic and authentic. Especially in today Republic she is still very alive.

[Roy]

Too late, most of them are pro-Russian or pro-Turkey, and majority of them speak more Russian than their native language.

What Moldovans think about Transnistria? Do they visit this place at all or want it back? My friends visited this place a couple years ago, according to them it felt like a Soviet heritage park brought to real life.

[Ion Basescul]

What Moldovans think about Transnistria? Do they visit this place at all?

There's no need to visit. Probably half of the working age Transnistrians are every day either in Chisinau or Odessa. There are long queues every morning and afternoon on the Dniester, since they commute to Chisinau for work. Chisinau is like 50km away from Tiraspol.
The conflict is mostly political, as people haven't really been separated.