Being an Eastern European

... Not by choice, but by being subject to the EU regulatory mechanisms of allocating each country to a region within Europe. The "late bloomers" such as Romania were pushed in the "Eastern" pile, even though geographically speaking Romania belongs to Central Europe. Well, apparently the historical argument has the magical power to modify geological structures, I would like to learn that magic too.

Anyway, it is "exotic" to be an Eastern European (EE) person living in - let's say - Manchester.

You have to continuously explain that Romania is a member of the European Union. That as an European citizen no, you don't need to carry your passport with you at all times, yes, Easterners such myself are... white??? (doh!), and yeah, we do live in nice cities, we do have apparently more advanced home appliances than the UK citizens... and yes, lucky us, we speak more foreign languages than Brits do.

I certainly did not emerge from a hut/cave/grotto and yes, Eastern European women are more elegant than the ones living in these parts of the world.

And, if an EE person such as I enrols in a Doctoral programme, no, she doesn't do it in order to later work as a cleaning lady for a blob monster of an incapable Brit woman and her spawns of Hell.

I may sound aggressive, but I have honestly and sincerely resented a certain article in the Marie Claire UK magazine, which stated that PhD EE women are good for cleaning ladies. I am certainly not working my butt out and investing money in such a Programme just for later to be allowed to clean the bathroom of such ignorant individuals such as those who may read and approve of such an inept article.

... does not mean that you are a "second-hand" citizen. Maybe other Europeans should study more about the ... civilizations surrounding them, otherwise they will find themselves stormed out of their natural environment without a two-week's notice.

I rest my case, I am proud of being an EE individual, more exactly a CE one. Because, as opposed to other individuals, we do look different one from the others, and we do work more to prove our abilities and skills, but once we do it we prove to be more capable than the carbon-copies who believe that Romania, for example, is situated in the Middle-East.