Well, I have met many people from that part ofthe world, and hope to meet many more. I used to work in a relevant department at the University of Washington, and I can't remember exactly where everyone came from...many from Uzbekistan, many from Turkey, and many from places where they were expert horsemen and women and it might just have been Khazkastan..and I have had some contact, not much, with Romanians in my travels, and was in Salzburg the day the the evil dictator was taken down...there were many people I presume were Romanians in..oops..I think it was Vienna...in the train station..I thought..these can't be Austrians..they look so wretched...and I finally figured out where they were from. They aren't just being portrayed as ignorant (I have not yet seen the movie but will as soon as it comes to my small town) but guilty of great transgressions against morality and I can not believe that people would not find this offensive. I can not imagine anyone whom I have met from that neck of the woods to not be offended, just based on reviews, newspaper stories etc. It might be a very funny movie and it might have some subtle good intentions, but I think there were some very bad things done to decent people here. I suggest that people look up an old National Geographic magazine from years back when Romanians were still working in the tire factories and see what their lives were like then and probably still are for many..a woman in one room with 8 children and some of the children literally were naked...horrible stories coming out of the orphanages there where being a Gypsy condemened them to an awful unthinkable life...I could go on, but the point is, I don't know why they were used as they were or the Kazhakastanis were ridiculed as they are. mg