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We went to the Madonna concert in Bucharest on Wednesday evening. The show was quite spectacular, as was to be expected of her, unfortunately there were many things about the organization of the event that were off and were very detrimental to the overall quality of the concert.
But that's not what I want to talk about. The buzz of the hour is the fact that Madonna decided to stop her concert mid-way to bring to our attention the fact that "there is a lot of discrimination against rroma gipsies in eastern Europe". The statement was met by an uproar of boos and whistling from much of the 70000-strong crowd.
You can read pro and con comments on many websites across the Internet. I will give you one link to The Hollywood Gossip which provides some examples of these comments.
Now, my opinion on the matter is probably not as extreme as that of some of my fellow nationals. Yes, Madonna had no business advising us on an issue she doesn't have enough information about. Madonna's gipsies are probably not the same gipsies we know over here in Romania. On the other hand there is a gipsy problem, a problem with gipsies, a problem of gipsies, and bringing this to the attention of the public is better done by a very well known public figure.
LATER EDIT (01.09.2009): The self-proclaimed king of all gipsies has announced that he plans to send Madonna a "diploma of excellency" in thanks for her statement in support of his fellow nationals. I think this should do, no more bad things need to be said about her by anyone :)
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