Looking Romanian people in a positive way - Public Policies Made by Citizens (Europe)

Human Rights: Looking Romanian people in a positive way

Posted by: Mihaela Dan
Country: Romania
Date: 18.05.2010
Profession: CONSULTING
From: PTIR
Target institution: European Parliament and mass media
Problem status:

As we can see the Romanian people are seen in a very negative way by the other country from Europe. This is happening because they don't know us and they are generalizing what they know about some bad things which are shown on TV and on the streets in many countries. I think they have to know more about Romania and the people who are living in our country. We have to reshape our bad imagine and show the others that Romania is a beautiful and nice place where there are a lot of kind and good people.

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Posted by: Przemek Chądzyński (19.05.2010)
Country: Poland
Profession: web developer
People are thinking using sterotypes - same way at Germany through many years people thought that guys from Poland always were drunken and thiefs; now it is changing;
I spent couple nice days at RO - and it was very good time. I met people who are great professionalist at theirs work.
From my point of view it not depend of yours activites inside country. You shoud "export" people who are great workers in many areas. It could be hard - becasue you need them in RO. But outside of PL minds started changing after opening the borders. When specialists started work in UK, Benelux, DE - then opinion about Polish workes and people at general changed.

Posted by: iulia mariana condurache (18.05.2010)
Country: Romania
Profession: student
It is right that we should promote better ours values, ours traditions, ours peoples, those who make honor to our contry. We can do that whit the help of the tourism, campains, change of experience whith schools and universities from other countries, internationals projects for youngs, theatres ans dansers company tours, romanian singer in toutnaments and other. Promote ourselfs!!

Posted by: Ladanyi Emese (18.05.2010)
Country: Romania
Profession: Coordonator Proiect
Romania, like many other European country is a multicultural one. And that is a good thing. The problem is us, Romanian citizens. We are not proud of us. We see and we publish (the press) only the bad things. We should try to build a good image for our country, for our people. But I don`t think that the press is guilty. They publish what the audience or the public ask for. And as I see, it is us, who want to see negative things. We are not proud of our values, even if we have them. Sad.

Posted by: bodescu madalina (18.05.2010)
Country: Romania
Profession: elev
Membrii UE trebuie sa inteleaga ca nu toti romanii sunt la fel,sa fib roman nu inseamna ca esti tigan sau cersetor. Consider ca statul roman ar trebui sa se implice mai mult in aceasta problema prin intensificarea controalelor vamale,printr-o campanie de informare in vederea estomparii emigratiei ilegale. Deasemenea,romanii din diaspora ar trebui sa le vorbeasca colegilor lor straini despre aceasta problema,explicandu
-le care sunt diferentele. Romanii trebuie sa invete sa fie mai nationalisti.

Posted by: Elena Filip (18.05.2010)
Country: Romania
Profession: student
I think that we should promote the tourism in Romania, because we have a lot of interesting places, where people can spend their vacations. This way, they can meet romanian people and they can see that we are not that bad.

Posted by: iulia mariana condurache (18.05.2010)
Country: Romania
Profession: student
Inainte de toate ar trebui trase la raspundere posturile Tv, radiourile internationale atunci cand exprimandu-se despre Romania si romani de multe ori fac greseli din necunoastere. Ceea ce apare in mass media e luat de bun, chiar daca informatiile sunt uneori eronate. Asadar mass media internationala ar trebui sa publice rectificari s sa publice in primul rand doar informatii verificate.

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