Who Speaks For Whom

For decades we seemed to be in agreement that the sportsmen and women are our ambassadors abroad. Partial truth have a way of insinuating themselves into the public psyche and stop the seeking of the whole truth. And the whole one is that no boxer may ever represent a scientist, as the latter may not represent the boxer.

A great architect may enjoy that the national soccer team won a game, but he could never feel that the soccer team speaks in his name. A Romanian surgeon is not hired by a hospital in Germany based on the fact that the Romanian soccer team won a European title.

So, when speaking of who speaks for whom, it is better to play it safe.

All the more so, since the Gypsy male raping a woman in Italy is deemed to be a Romanian, while the young female living in Buzau city, who developed a revolutionary software for programming computers turns to be an international citizen.

Recently I turn very unhappy when I read that who knows what Romanian is an European champion in playing darts, or that a top professional poker player in the US is also of Romanian origin, or that NASA wants to bring on board a high-school student in Moldova who cracked several military codes.

If my opinion is somehow offending the reader, I bag of him/her to try bring together the names of the latter champions with those of sculptor Constantin Brancusi, composer George Enescu, playwright Eugene Ionesco and philosopher Emil Cioran.
One would easily notice that it may be hard to remember the names of all champions of late.
As for the names of Brancusi, Enescu, Ionescu and Cioran - the whole mankind recognizing their greatness will not let one forget.

- Translation AAP