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Romanians
gave up the Oriental style and fashion and quickly adopted Western fashions
radically changing their dressing style and the interior decorations of their
homes.
Women
quickly embraced the Western trends and proved to be the main promoters of
these changes in the Romanian society. Furthermore, the change in mentalities
allowed women to get more involved in social activities destined for children
and not only. So, in the first half of the 19th century children
benefitted from improved education and standard of living in comparison to the
previous generations. Well-off families in the aforementioned principalities started
hiring German, English or French tutors for their children, which replaced the
previous Greek private teachers they used to have. Bourgeois families in these
two regions inhabited by Romanians had their own approach in the education of
their offspring. Here is now at the microphone Nicoleta Roman, researcher with
the Nicolae Iorga Institut