Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-86.120.181.113-20170718200410

I just want to mention the fact that the actress is trying to speak (in a very poor attempt, might I add, since not a single sound or word was pronounced correctly) ROMANIAN, instead of the rromani language. Her name is romanian as well, not rromani.

I just feel like 1) if you are going to act as a romanian character, you should at least try to learn the right pronounciation of these words, and this says a lot not only about the director of the show, but also about the actress herself because a great actor would never be satisfied with such a poor performance and even tv show actors should always strive to be great actors AND 2) if you want to portray a rromani gypsy, which is in fact, a true and well-known part of the european society - every country has its gypsies -, that's fine, I'm willing to accept your take on what a rromany gypsy should look and speak like, BUT if your interpretation is that gypsies speak ROMANIAN and have ROMANIAN names (which indicates that they are actually romanian citizens), then I think that is a great insult to the romanian people. With this, you reinforce and promote the stereotype that all gypsies are romanian or the idea that gypsies come from Romania.

This should never happen in a tv show, not even in a subtle way. People watching GRIMM all over the world see this message and think to themselves that this scene is based on real facts from all over the world. You can NOT use the fact that it is a fictional story as an excuse because the show is filled with little real-life links such as important personalities from all over the world (Van Gogh, Hitler and many more). I don't know if there are any other romanian fans of the show around here, but if there are, I feel like we should never avoid to discuss these kinds of topics and the discussion should be (at least) mentioned somwhere. 