to leave the metro carriages and wait for the next one. everyone gets out quietly. piata victoriei. on the platform across the rails, a voice. the person it belongs to is hidden behind the yellow pillars, and he does not look anything like his voice. with a pronounced vibrato, he performs a mellow, plaintive type of folk song. let us see beyond the balkan soul stereotypes.
it moved me, and it may have moved others too. one young police officer was not moved and mocked the singer to his friends, who listened nevertheless.
also encountered some roma kids on calea victoriei carrying around their sheep and wishing every bypasser health and luck and also wishing for a return of some kind.
the following article is a particularly apt portrayal of the romania beyond the stereotypes of contrast, of alterity and proximity:
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2006/09/IONESCU/13967 - septembre 2006
and also this, for the contrastive effect...
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006600595,00.html
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