IDEOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND THE US: CROSSROADS, FREEWAYS, COLLISIONS Raluca-Nicoleta Rogoveanu Romanians in the United States: One Heritage, Multiple Belongings and Symbolic Ethnicity Abstract: This study on Romanian immigrants addresses the double and simultaneous belonging of Romanian-Americans to Romanian ethnicity and the American society. If Romanian-American identity develops on a spectrum ranging from Americanization to strong ethnic identification, this study engages the variegated hypostases of ethnic and non-ethnic belongings embraced by Romanian-Americans