Fatalism and The End of Protesting

I was told that all government workers would be striking on Monday and Tuesday. However, as I previously said, the public transit was running on Monday, and Tuesday as well. When I asked what happened with the strike at the office, Maria told me that an NGO asked them to cancel it and for the most part, the unions agreed. From this point on she believes that they will simply accept the salary and pension cuts, and suffer silently. She also made it very clear that this scenario is just another “funny way of Romanian protesting”. Dacian culture is a mélange of Latin and Slavic outlooks, and the tendency of Romanians toward fatalism, as opposed to idealism, is very Slavic. I also find it wonderfully refreshing. Apparently, one of Romanians greatest folk tales is about a man who learns he is going to be killed and spends the rest of life planning his own funeral, instead of trying to avoid his demise. In this same vain, it seems that the unions have chosen, after over half a month of protesting, to simply accept their fate and suffer gloriously.