{"id":18864,"date":"2013-02-02T12:01:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T17:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18864"},"modified":"2013-09-13T10:48:25","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T15:48:25","slug":"romania-responds-to-british-anti-immigration-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/romania-responds-to-british-anti-immigration-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Romania responds to British anti-immigration talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romania’s Gandul<\/em> has a bit of fun at Britain’s expense<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"Gandul<\/p>\n

Public fears in the UK over mass immigration by Eastern Europeans has prompted a peculiar response from Romania: One newspaper published a series of ads playing on British cultural stereotypes, and saying why people should move to Romania instead.<\/p>\n

\u00ad\u201cOur draft beer is less expensive than your bottled water<\/em>,\u201d one of the ads proudly states, hinting at the high costs of living in the UK. Another ad made fun of British cuisine: \u201cWe serve more food groups than pies, sausage, fish and chips<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other ads touched upon politics, weather and even women: “Half of our women look like Kate. The other half, like her sister<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

The ‘Why don`t you come over?’ ad campaign was designed by the online Romanian newspaper Gandul<\/em> and GMP Advertising firm in response to numerous reports in the British media about a possible government initiative to launch a negative ad campaign discouraging Romanians and Bulgarians from coming to work in Britain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Update, 13 September<\/b>: The campaign just won a Gold Award at AdStars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romania’s Gandul has a bit of fun at Britain’s expense: Public fears in the UK over mass immigration by Eastern Europeans has prompted a peculiar response from Romania: One newspaper published a series of ads playing on British cultural stereotypes, and saying why people should move to Romania instead. \u00ad\u201cOur draft beer is less expensive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,62,57,28],"tags":[97,857,554,463,879],"class_list":["post-18864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-europe","category-humour","category-media","tag-advertising","tag-bulgaria","tag-immigration","tag-parody","tag-romania"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4Ug","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18864"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22106,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18864\/revisions\/22106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}