I want to look up to the Romanian politicians. I want be able to trust the elders. I want to be appreciated for what I am. I want to feel that the Romanians are my friends, not my enemies. I want my education to be respected and my work to be rewarded appropriately. Making a decent living should go hand in hand with working. I don’t want to be considered a luxury traveling and having a house of my own to come back to. I’m tired of smelly Romanians. I’m sick of inhaling the dust in Bucharest. I want to see people getting tired of kitsch TV shows and demanding more quality. I want all the CD’s with “manele” burnt and the singers in jail. I want journalists to be well documented and to give pertinent commentaries and articles. I want violent football supporters to be prohibited ever watching a football game again. I don’t want to hear “Romania is a beautiful country, too bad it is inhabited” anymore. I want to be able to walk on the streets without being harassed. I don’t want to feel helpless in shaping Romania’s and Romanian’s future.
Inspired by this campaign, “We want a different Romania”, of which I’ve heard from Laura’s blog.
PS: writing in English on Romania’s National Day isn’t accidental.
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I want to see in jail all those people who want to see me in jail. I want to burn all the CD collections of those who want to burn my CD collection, and an entire muscial genre. I want to be able to walk the streets of my home town without being harrased because of the type of music I listen to. I’m only a Romanian, like yourself.
“Maneaua” is not only a musical genre, it also involves a particular life-style. It is my right to express my disapproval of low culture, kitsch, blatant behaviour, a culture based on money, etc etc. I wouldn’t want these elements in our society, and every day I fight against them. Don’t take my words literally, see what’s beyond them. I would send to jail these non-values, not the people or their music. Listen to whatever you like, as long as you also read a good book, respect human values and not their price, and you’ll be able to walk the streets with your head up high.