Stepping into a foreign land of which she has perhaps no more than a fortune cookie's worth of knowledge of and then appointing herself their interim Minister of Cultural Affairs is probably the most American thing about Madonna. Which explains how, on Wednesday, in front of a crowd of 60,000 in the Romanian capital, Madonna was able to gloss over ages of systematized hate against gypsies and inspire the "boo" in Bucharest. While it's lovely to see Madonna standing up for the marginalized, she's nothing more than a passing tourist with liberal guilt. Also, when she tries to use words like "feeling" and "sad," you're more likely to raise an eyebrow than place stock in such statements. So when everyone -- who hadn't minded performances by the gypsy performers onstage -- stopped clapping and started booing, it's really no mystery why.

Typically, when people attend a concert in a park, it does not mean that they secretly want to attend a summit on human rights. Or when people are dancing, they don't want to stop dancing to be condescended to by a foreigner whose most exotic claim to fame are a pair of tots torn from their homes in sub-Saharan Africa. She essentially said, "It has been brought to my attention ... that there is a lot of discrimination against Romanies and Gypsies in general in Eastern Europe. It made me feel very sad."

Perhaps a fan in attendance sums it up better: "I jeered her because it seemed false what she was telling us. What business does she have telling us these things?" An official from the Soros Foundation adds, "Madonna is a pop star. She is not an expert on interethnic relations." Basically, Madonna: more voguing, less humanitarianism. Leave the philanthropy to Angelina Jolie. Boos follow below.