a lesson of Attitude vs Fakeness: Bucharest vs Madonna

I love when people have opinions about things they don't know shit about :-) It's incredible stupid to make superficial remarks about things you don't know - just to "pretend cool". And that's what Madonna recently did in Bucharest.

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For those around my gps location there is no news about the big concert: August 26 2009 - Madonna in Bucharest.

I'm thinking since quite several days - what's the point to blog about this. Because that concert was so bad - that my group and really enough people around us leaved the concert before it's finish - because we were bored. There was dust, bad remixes, NOT live music all the time, ... a nightmare. Really really bad.

Now to go to my point - that's not the worse. Madonna said during her show that we in East Europe have a problem discriminating gypsies. And I have a few problems with this remark.

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The first one is the real fact: in Romania they actually are not discriminated but they are left too much to do what they want.

When I was kid - there was a street named "Calatorilor" around my birth place. Anybody who lived in that neighborhood know that until 1992->1995 - that street was full of gypsies. Everybody who lived there knows that they did what they want and they never got busted nor hit nor discriminated by anyone.

There were guys doing jail - but there is a rule that every romanian know: "a gypsy will never steal around his house". So we didn't feared of them but also didn't had any love or doing barbeque togheter. We just lived in peace and without too much interaction.

I had gypsy colleagues during my first 4 years of school. Sometimes the young teacher had to clean that guy - sometimes had to "punish" him for not learning anything - but he came to the school 4 years. After this nothing - because that is what his family decided.

Everybody in Romania knows that there were enough teachers who risk their safety and went to the gypsy parents to ask them to let their kids to school. But also everybody here knows that there is some gypsy-rule to put their kids to work as soon as possible.

Now since we're in EU - there is another rule that gypsies don't follow - "early marriage". There were enough big scandals with gypsy families doing weeding but pretending not to do this.

Authorities really try now to help them through several organizations - but I don't think they will succeed - mostly because the gypsies want to live their way. The only solution to force some different rule would be by force - and so far I didn't see any trend in this direction.

What did we failed here ? On one side we let them do whatever they wanted to. On another side we didn't forced them to live our way. So probably we have to apologize for our too much tolerance of not forcing our model of living :-)

Madonna was really fake to talk about things she don't know and really care about - to teach us lessons of "discrimination" of gypsies.

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The second fact is a problem of attitude from the people and media of Bucharest.

I know several guys who were at the concert - none of them had a good opinion about it. I was also really surprised to see that no big comments appeared in the media the next days. No big online media site made a campaign against Madonna. No one spent time to say "dude - that was really bad".

But on the other side - the park were the concert happened has now all the grass damaged. Some estimate mentioned May of 2010 for complete recovery of the grass.

The driving in Bucharest was badly affected in that day. City was blocked for a few hours.

An estimated 70000 people paid for this bad show - but another few hundred thousands payed the price of not being able to live properly.

But what really made me sad was: "she came with a number of black cars without transparent windows and she made no public interview".

To me it sounds like the attitude of the citizens of Bucharest was: "yes - it was a really bad concert - but since she's Madonna - let's leave it like a null game - it was 0-0" :-)

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So: was Madonna very arrogant in my city, on my money - but offered me an unrequested lesson about discrimination ? Yes ... :-)