Libertatea’s campaign: anti-British folklore, figures about high drugs intake in UK

Libertatea, Wednesday, 22 November: UK is ‘the European capital of drugs’ (sic), figures showing the high use of illegal substances in Britain, a Romanian musician called Jan de la Craiova (Jan from Craiova) that has composed an anti-British ‘manea’. ‘Manea’ (pl.: ‘manele’) is a hard to define phenomenon very popular during the last years, simliar to the ‘turbo-folk’ in Serbia: a mix of Turkish, Gypsy and Romanian music, with a pathetic singer and poor electronic (keyboards & drum machine) orchestration. Words are also pathetic and in general stupid, which in the anti-British song reads:

The Englishmen’s Grudge

Many Romanians with a big soul
Have left the country,
They’re the kings of ideas,
The Englishmen’s grudge.

They look for the straw in our eye
Try to kick us out from their country,
Make up diseases,
Only to get rid of us.

Ref.:
Still
We’re worthy Romanians
At home and abroad.

• The Libertatea story [RO] with the original words.

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