Criminal Minds este un serial politist, care are ca personaj principal o echipa de psihologi criminalisti de la FBI; in fiecare episod ei gasesc cate o persoana rapita sau disparuta sau prind un criminal in serie. Si de ce scriu eu despre seriale?
Din cauza surprizei pe care am avut-o auzind “I love you, puyule”. In noul episod difuzat in seara aceasta, a fost vorba despre o familie de tigani care rapea fetite si le omora parintii. Acum, dupa cum v-ati dat seama, familia provenea din Romania. Totusi, scenaristii au mers mai departe si au spus “sunt rromani, tigani” si au continuat sa spuna despre lipsa lor de respect pentru lege, traditiile proprii si modul de viata nomad.
Si iata ca romanii sunt (inca) asociati cu tiganii si cu toate faradelegile lor. Frumos, nu-i asa? Hai sa ii compatimim in continuare…
For the English language readers: Google translation is not legible, so here’s my translation.
“Criminal Minds” is a TV show which has as main character a team of FBI profilers.; in every episode they recover a missing or kidnapped person or they catch a serial killer. And why am I writing about TV shows?
Because of the surprise I had when I’ve heard “I love you, puyule”. Tonight’s new episode was about a gypsy family that was kidnapping little girls and killing their parents. Now, as you may have realized, the family was from Romania. But the screenplay author went further on and said “they are rromani, gypsies” and continued by telling about their lack of respect for the law, about their own traditions and nomadic way of life.
So, once again, Romanians are (still) associated with the gypsies and their crimes. Beautiful, isn’t it? Let’s pity them some more…
Current Mood:
Sad & 
Sickly
Cine-i compatimeste? Eu ii urasc… ii detest la disperare, desi-mi spun deseori ca sunt si ei oameni…ca n-ar trebuii sa las in inima mea sa creasca ura. Dar din ce in ce mai mult incep sa-i urasc. Risc sa devin rasista, dar nu-mi pasa, asa cum nici lor nu le pasa de noi atunci cand numai laude de kkt ne aduc. Vai ce m-am infuriat!
Organizatiile internationale pentru protectia minoritatilor, pentru drepturile omului etc. Si oamenii din tarile in care tiganii nu s-au stabilit inca.
Niste idioti… se tot plang ca nu respectam drepturile minoritatilor etnice, dar cand ajung la ei in tara, situatia se schimba radical…
Cat despre asocierea romanilor, cu tiganii romani, este o chestiune de lipsa de bun simt din partea celor care fac serialul. Ketherius, stiu ca in Canada sunt altfel legile… nu exista vreo modalitate de a-i penaliza in vreun fel pe realzatorii serialului, sau chiar canalul TV care il difuzeaza?
@Vladi: Pai ideea era ca au recunoscut cuvantul “puiule” ca fiind romanesc, dar apoi au specificat ca infractorii sunt de etnie rroma. De penalizat nu se pune problema, pentru ca este libertatea de exprimare a artistului…
libertatea de exprimare zici… deci, in cazul asta pot face si eu un film romanesc si sa pun niste personaje “americani”, pe care sa-i numesc aborigeni (ceea ce erau pana sa ajunga Columb acolo).
Pai da, poti. problema este ca nu ai de unde sa faci bani si nu ai unde sa il produci. Si nici nu stiu cata lume o sa il vada – depinde de talentul tau
asta ne strica viitorul… sa te duci in alta tara sa te angajezi si sa spui ca esti roman… e ff greu . Doar sa fii foarte bun in ceea ce faci … ai avea o sansa
@Constanteanu: Ceea ce spui tu este valabil in Europa. Aici m-a ajutat faptul ca sunt roman si nimeni nu s-a legat de originea mea.
Ai dreptate Ketherius, in Canada nu se pune problema daca esti roman sau alta natie. Asta pentru ca, Canada este multiculturala.
hm….. in ce epison era?
Sezonul 4, episodul 13 “Bloodline”: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/criminal_minds/recaps/413/recaps.php
Could anyone possibly tell me what puyule means in english? I’m trying to learn romanian and i saw that episode and was just wondering about the meaning! Thanks<3
“Pui” means offspring. It’s a generic term for baby (even for animals): you can either say “calf” or “baby cow”, right? “Pui” is the “baby” in “baby cow”. “Puiule” means “[you] my little baby” (as you may have guessed, “puyule” is not the corect Romanian spelling)..
Tocmai am vazut si eu episodul cu pricina. Butonam intamplator telecomanda si la un moment dat am vazut serialul meu preferat. Am prins scena cand era interogata vecina familiei de origine”rroma”. La inceput nu stiam despre ce e vorba, dar pe urma am observat pronuntia cuvantului “romani”.Mi-a atras atentia in mod deosebit. Brusc, ma simteam mandra si-mi ziceam in sine “inca si americanii fac filme despre noi.wow…”. Serialul continua si constat ca defapt este vorba despre confuzia dintre “rromi” si “romani”.Oare in halul asta am ajuns de toata planeta ne stie de talhari, ucigasi si mai stiu eu ce? M-a marcat oarecum acest aspect. Mi se pare nedrept fata de noi romanii care nu am facut altceva decat sa acceptam un popor , care, larandul lui ne-a dus “faima” in tari straine cu greselile facute de ei.
@Klazina
The proper spelling is “Puiule” and it’s an endearment term. It comes from “pui” as in cub, chick, kid or young and it’s used for boys/young adults only. Sometimes it’s a substitute for the first name – spelled “Puiu” – used by friends and relatives even for grownups. For girls/women although less frequent, one might use “Puica”.
To clarify some things:
1) they never stated in the show that Romanians or Gypsies are criminals and didn’t imply that aspect either. the criminals happened to be of Romanian descent and had twisted a harmless tradition into something perverse.
2) the family didn’t rape the girls. they kidnapped them to work them into their lifestyle and carry on their traditions.
I understand that as Romanians, you may feel offended, but they never said anything about Romanians being evil or inherently criminals. The show has plenty of white criminals, but that doesn’t mark the implication that every American is a rapist or a felon. The same goes for the other ethnicities of the various criminals. Asians, African-Americans, and Indians have all been a suspect in some way. The point of the show is to make it diverse because no one race is evil. These prejudices exist in society, but as far as the show goes, anyone can be a criminal despite race, gender, or age.
Romanians are associated with Gypsies because it’s part of your history. There is not fault to be found with anyone that Gypsies are connected with Romanians. And unfortunately, bad things are always more memorable than the good. But all of this talk of wanting to blame someone and “pitying” people for it is absurd and an excuse for needing a scapegoat for your misguided anger.
So all of you need to stop trying to find a reason to be angry at the show or at Americans because you’re misconstruing the entire show. If you haven’t watched more than just that episode of Criminal Minds, you should before you go off ranting about it.
@Aster: It is not misguided anger. You should talk about it after you live a few months in a gipsy populated area. You should talk after you live the fear of answering your cellphone when you see a gipsy around. After you have experienced the happines of riding the public transit after 11 PM and not being mugged and/or gang raped; after you are pickpocketed every week on the same public transit line at the same hour by the same gipsy gang. Go live in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia etc.
Afterall, you have no idea how you feel like when you are Romanian on a job interview and you are asked about the gipsy gang that left a trail of robberies accross Canada from Quebec to Alberta, before some of them were arrested in Calgary. And, of course, the question was referring to the “Romanians” that commited the robberies. How would you feel like if, whereever you go, your nation will be identified only with the worst people it has produced?
Honestly, you have no moral authority to talk about misguided anger towards the gypsies.
Va cam inselati …si eu am vazut serialul si a inceput sa fiarba sangele in mine …dar pe urma m-am uitat inca o data si mi-am dat seama ca nu se mentioneaza absolut nimic de romani (romani care locauiesc in romania) acolo. Singurele lucruri care apar in legatura cu romania sunt cate cuvinte: puiule, sa nu le spui puiule si etc. Dar acolo oameni aia spun clar… romani cu A, nu cu ah. Ca sa va documentati cititi asta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people
“Sometimes, rom and romani are spelled with a double r, i.e., rrom and rromani. In this case rr is used to represent the phoneme /ʀ/ (also written as ř and rh), which in some Romani dialects has remained different from the one written with a single r. The rr spelling is common particularly in Romania, in order to distinguish from the endonym for Romanians (sg. român, pl. români).[18]“