Europe’s Problem With The Roma

The Romani people have been a part of European culture for centuries - Charlie Chaplin and flamenco both have Romani origins. But this ethnic group (also known by more derogatory names like “gypsies”) has been discriminated against for hundreds of years, culminating in the death of hundreds of thousands of them in the Holocaust. And the Romani still face open bigotry today. We’re going to look at who the Roma people are and their ongoing fight for respect and survival.
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[@christine_ren]

My mum is a teacher and had a Romani student that did really well at school, wanted to pursue higher education, but was shunned by his family and friends for that. It must be really difficult because if you stand out it's easy to feel like you don't belong anywhere. People must have shunned him in the dominant culture because he was Romani, and the Romani shunned him for following the "mainstream" ways. I can see why in such cases the easiest path is for the status quo to remain.

[@psychoboo955]

This. In my experience, the Romani people have a very strong "family culture". Any deviation from the norm is seen by the community as abhorrent, and i have hear the "deviants" being called "whities" by the family on couple occasions. This is even more emphasised by the views of many outsiders.

[@zivkovicable]

@@psychoboo955 Maybe that's because over the years Roma children have been taught that their culture is bad, their parents are bad, & punished for speaking their own language. Would you send your children to a school like that?

[@annnee6818]

It's very hard to say to how many people this applies, but some younger Romani seem to be caught between a rock and a hard place" they want to integrate but aren't allowed because their parents experienced racism and/or simply just want to keep what they know but it sounds like a vicious circle. The old clan structures want to keep power and influence so they terrorise their own community and no one is helping them from the outside either. Plus racism of course. I don't know how this can be solved if no side wants to give any😔

[@annnee6818]

@@zivkovicable she was describing a situation where that was not the case. Maybe it's time to face up to the fact that while racism exists and is bad it's not the only obstacle to integration but the clan elders want to keep their power and influence and terrorise their own communities into NOT changing ever, even if they might want to.

[@seanmckearney3241]

because beggin is easier

[@Hyp3rBee]

I’m not Romani, I’m Hmong, but their history is really similar to our history. Our people migrated around a lot because of persecution and annexation. Started in China and settled all over South East Asia. Most of our people died building The Great Wall and kept in slavery for a long time. Still no reparations to this day because they’re trying to erase our history. The only way one would know is story passed on down by their families.

[@qjtvaddict]

Soon china will be in a position to give some reparations

[@luisandrade2254]

Do you want reparations for something that never happened to you?

[@williemherbert1456]

@@luisandrade2254 It doesn't have to be reparation, but acknowledgement and equal treatment alongside special help to improve own community is what only being needed, but of course it's hard to be given, right? They had existed alongside Asian-steppe origin Hungarian for around the same time, but not haven't being given citizenship at all? It's as ridiculous as never giving Polish citizenship to the Germanic people living in Prussia that is part of modern-day Poland just because they're not part of the bigger Western Slav family of ethnic.

[@luisandrade2254]

@@nevereverever1521 why are you speaking Spanish to me????

[@williemherbert1456]

@George Boehringer As I said, it's just a stupid deliberate malpractice culturally and bureaucratically by both the state & society, even descendant of SS officer still has right to get own citizenship despite what's their past generation had done, and along with it acknowledgement to exist and interact and served within own environment with other human being as equal by law.

[@richiejohnson]

My only contact with Romani was in Italy at a tourist spot. A mother---( or captain?) had a group of five children rush me. Their hands were in my pockets and my jacket ( I use a money belt when I travel). I had no idea what was happening, and I pushed them away hard enough to make one fall over. I screamed bloody hell at the woman, which I am able to do at an extremely high volume. And still they persisted. I was in shock. I had never experienced anything remotely like it. What on earth am I supposed to think?

[@causalityismygod2983]

Think how hungry these children must be

[@JoaoPaulo-ot4ez]

You just haven't to relate the situation with the fact they are gypsies, don't think " they are like this because they're gypsies".

[@paulsaha2242]

Hate breeds hate. It is the Europeans to be blamed on how they mistreated, marginalized, alienated them... And now expecting them to be humans.

[@Geo-nw9ug]

@@causalityismygod2983 then they can go back to India

[@goodaimshield1115]

@@causalityismygod2983 They're not, though, ther are charity canteens in all these countries, and the Church and other organizations give food for free. THey're NOT hungry, and if you believe so, then you're stupid.

[@kevinwong8693]

When I was a kid (in England), travellers moved into the local field behind our housing area. I can't recall if they were Irish travellers or Romani, but they pitched themselves on the land with their caravans. I always hung out with the kids in the local area and most of us have never encountered 'travellers' before. The first time we met with the kids from the travellers, one of the boys pulled out a knife on us for no apparent reason. From that point on, the negative view of travellers has stuck with me. They just move on to public land, leave tons of trash and shit everywhere and move on. The local council decided to dig trenches around the fields to prevent them from pitching on the land.

[@martinsanchez4827]

Funny thing is Romanis or Irish Travellers are usually the most integrated Gypsies in Europe. Like if you look at the Romanis in the UK and compare them to Bulgaria, Italy and such, you can see that the Romanis look like the normal white Briton, instead of the normal continental European Romani. This is because Romanis and native Britons have been mixing for a long time.

[@GaryMarks-kl6ft]

Sounds like Irish traveller's

[@radagon-su2vq]

I dont understand why people live a travelling life style in a place like europe like if its in the steppes or the deserts of arabia i understand but when its europe which isnt even that big and its mostly urbanised with no big open feilds or deserts why would they even live that life style

[@albandrejaj]

​@@martinsanchez4827nope

[@leesadoe2440]

irish? like the white trailer trash seen on tv documentaries that claim to be gypsies?

[@TxxT33]

From what I gather, this hate is because people do not have good personal experiences with the romas. You can keep an open mind, but if you get robbed, scammed, thrown rocks at, trash your neighborhood every time you actually interact with them, then you'll develop your own perceptions due to that experience.

[@LiveFreeOrDie2A]

Exactly. There’s a very real reason there’s a “stigma” around these people. Personally, the Romani groups where I live in New England 100% CHOOSE to live travelling gypsy lifestyle because they’re on the move from those they recently scammed. Often running paving companies who will take 1/2 up front for jobs and never perform the work and split out of town. Scamming more as they go along.

[@quackss6384]

​@Mike Horvath 😂

[@albinjohnsson2511]

Exactly. My only encounters with Romani people have been them trying to scam me (which has happened twice) or them begging outside the supermarket (although they are eligible to free education, healthcare, and social services, which they actively decline). I also have three friends who have had stuff stolen from them by Romanis. I do not have a single friend who has ever told me about a positive experience with Romanis. Their culture justifies stealing from non-Romanis, as Romanis are the only ones who truly matter, and they actively shun the majority population. Honestly, there's a reason why people in every country dislike them. Their culture is straight-up trash, immoral, and incompatible with modernity.

[@fundamentalscience56]

we indians also hate rohingyas. So its common dude don't worry. No body likes outsiders, especially if those outsiders are dirty, and wierd, and immorals/criminal minded and don't have basic sense. So does europe. So its definitely not racism. They cause problems to you.

[@fundamentalscience56]

@Mike Horvath we indians also hate rohingyas. So its common dude don't worry. No body likes outsiders, especially if those outsiders are dirty, and wierd, and immorals/criminal minded and don't have basic sense. So does europe. So its definitely not racism. They cause problems to you.

[@ivanproynov7078]

My take on the whole situation with the Roma people as doctor working in a public hospital in Bulgaria, where a good amount of the patients are Romani is that a big problem for them is their clan structure. Almost all of the ones that are living in poverty belong to something like a clan run by a criminal boss( we call it a gypsy baron) who is responsible for the "well being" of his subjects - forbids them to be educated in order to keep the status quo, forces them to work criminal jobs like prostitution or begging and most importantly collects money from political parties during election and orders his people who to vote for - that's why this system is tolerated. I didn't see anything meaningful in this video how to integrate the Roma, just raising some awareness. A good example for Roma people that broke off from this system in Bulgaria are the ones that joined religious sects, like seventh day Adventists. They are usually educated and don't live in poverty, so maybe that's one way.

[@abcxyz-cx4mr]

Can they join the Islamic religion? Maybe they can get help from Muslims

[@funwithbell7207]

@@abcxyz-cx4mr Some of the Roma people in Bulgaria is muslims.

[@sunnowo]

From the knowledge I have, the situation is very similar in my home country of Sweden as well and very little efforts by our government has been done to help it even at one point considering banning begging.

[@mowtow90]

@@funwithbell7207 They are not. They join every religion just as long as they get something but they dont belive in it. There is a reason why missioneries stopped going into the getos. The islamic autiries are still trying and suppusedly converted people but they are not convertable , they are opertunistic.

[@ivanproynov7078]

@@mowtow90 the ones that already have a mainstream religion (like Orthodox Christianity or Sunni Islam in Bulgaria) are not religious or I would say are more superstitious then religious. But there are a lot of Romani in community sects like Mormons and others and they are usually better educated and integrated. Maybe you are right that some have joined just for some material advantages, but I've also interacted with some genuine believers.

[@tylerlittle499]

All I can say is I was a restaurant manager and every single time gypsies came in we had a problem. Not 1 or 2 times, but 16 for 16 100%. And it was the same thing every time, customize everything then complain that thats not what was on the menu, then eat 80% of the food then try to send it back and get a refund, then when I wouldn’t give it to them they would throw stuff on the floor and threaten my staff.

[@GuitarIv69]

I work as a waiter in a hotel and 2 weeks ago two gypsies walked in and stole 100 Euros from me with a trick. This has happened TWICE so far in a span of 7 years, I work in hospitality 15 years now. Both times it happened it was the same trick, both times it was done by Gypsies. Call me racist all you want, next time I have a Roma walk in my waiters wallet is not leaving my pocket.

[@gnp1117]

​@GuitarIv69 what trick?

[@GuitarIv69]

@@gnp1117 Two of them walked in to the bar, full restaurant, it was busy I was the only waiter and pretty stressed out. One of them ordered a whiskey, paid cash with a 100 Euros, I gave him the change back and had the bill he gave me under my wallet behind me behind the bar. He started asking all kind of questions and distracting me, the other guy snuck up behind my back behind the bar, snagged the 100 Euros from under my wallet and got out. The other dude at the bar said thank you, got out as well, I turn around and the money is gone. Happens very fast, those guys are professionals. Never let your wallet go out your hands, not even for one second!

[@philiplapierre9776]

You can clean and dress a pig, but look away for one moment and that pig will be rolling in the mud in no time. So don't feel ashamed for treating a pig like a pig.

[@anthonyriordan2391]

Same, gypsies are the worst

[@andygardner3300]

As an American As far as I know there’s only one family of Romani in my area. The dad pretends to be Mexican and plays the accordion while panhandling and the mom stands in a parking lot asking for money with her school age children with her to make people sympathetic, instead of sending them to school so they can live better lives. One time I witnessed the mom try to distract a shopkeeper while her daughter made a pass at some jewelry

[@LifeOfTheParty323]

Where do you live? Curious.

[@leesadoe2440]

@@LifeOfTheParty323 they are all over the USA. They are big in the sf bay area, where they cheat lie and steal and cause so much disruption

[@crowmob-yo6ry]

Of course the American has to bring up parking lots. Stupid car-centric design is killing us. We need better public transport, walkability and cycling infrastructure.

[@CierraJohnson-bh4mc]

@@crowmob-yo6ry Is that all you focused on?

[@pv1866]

​@@crowmob-yo6ry L Take, get a life and learn how to drive.

[@Mladjasmilic]

Situation from Serbia: My sister had in her class a Roma girl, with great grades, who wanted to become a doctor. But her grandfather arranged her a marriage to a guy that 10 years older and lived in Austria. Her father could not stand to his father. She was 14. Many Roma children are born at home. And these births are never reported, so they have no ID. And when these children have children of their own, they could not be reported as their mother did not have an ID. They could not travel, go to school, doctor. They do not exist. Some even do not know when or where they are born. Problem is that if they want to join surrounding society, they are banished from Roma. But there is a fear that other would not accept them, so they become alone. PS. When I got to university I was so happy to see Roma-looking guy. But it turned out, it was a student from Bangladesh.

[@Mladjasmilic]

@Romanian patriot How should I call them?

[@gillb9733]

@Romanian patriot ...says the guy who calls himself Romanian Patriot?

[@manfreds.6384]

@Romanian patriot lol romania have nothing to do with roman empire either that's like the sultanate of rum claiming to be romans.

[@Mladjasmilic]

@@Me-yq1fl Actually, it is spelled Rrom. So it is Rroma people.

[@deithlan]

@@Mladjasmilic The spelling differs from dialects, and it is not that important given that it is mostly an oral language group

[@SickPrid3]

"Nazis targeted Romani people for being supposedly racially inferior" - Nazis targeted everyone because of that same reason

[@jzk2020]

Not true. Whites were not targeted because of that.

[@am.i.cognizant9981]

I mean they didn't target everyone they didn't target Dutch, Norwegians and Baltic Germans

[@comradepolarbear6920]

Oh really, thank you for adding that information. We did not know that at all

[@am.i.cognizant9981]

@@comradepolarbear6920 Well apparently SickPrid3 didn't know

[@HussainFazaal]

Funny how Romanis are real descendents of the actual Aryans which Nazis claim their superiority from. European colonial mentality at it's finest.

[@IIlIllIIlllIII]

they aren't european

[@nitpl12]

You mean they aren't nendhratal

[@deuteronomy6411]

@@nitpl12you must be with your spelling 😅

[@WeKnowIslam94]

So if they are not European then killing them is justified... Wow... Americans are not American then why they killed most native red Indians.Why, did European people kill native Australian people what is the justification for this. I think Abrahamic religions are the most cruel religion on earth Islam, Christianity you name it. And the worst thing is that white supremacy.

[@wonderoushistoryofclassicf9193]

​​@nitpl12 neanderthal DNA is more prevalent in Asia than in Europe. Also they've lived in Europe and mixed with Europeans for nearly a thousand years. They're European.

[@danielnikolin4162]

We are European !!!!!

[@sakkra93]

I'm from Europe, and I'll say that, whilst it's sad, stereotypes exist from a reason and they don't come from nowhere. We've had problems in the past with train cancellations on the main lines due to gypsies stealing the metal from the tracks and copper out of the wires. Gypsy camps are notorious as places of violence, and when they're out they're infamous for acting like complete arseholes for no reason - verbally abusing folks for no reason. They often pitch up in fields, on grass verges, and leave a huge mess, they have no respect for the land they're usually illegally camping on, and are a major headache for the farmer if they decide to use one of his fields, one of our Conservative MPs even called them "scum" in 2002 in regards to the nightmare they had caused his constituency. About a decade ago, my country had a very low opinion of Romanians because Romanians were rare in our country back then, and the only exposure must of us had had to "Romanians" were violent gypsies from Romania who called themselves "Roma", leading many to assume all Romanians must be like that, fortunately more genuine Romanians have arrived since.

[@NuSuntSerb]

As a romanian, man does it piss me off when people automatically assume im a gypsy because of "romanian" and "romani" being so simillar in name. Although its only ever been over the internet because if you talked or even looked at a real ethnic romanian like myself in person, youd know instantly that obviously ethnic romanians are not gypsies. Skin color, hair color, and eye color, and height we do not share with gypsies

[@iverson4764]

You are în big confusions..... romanians have NOTHING în comun with with rroma , romanians are not from India ,romanians don't have dark skin ,romanians have their country România not India, romanians speak latin language NOT hindi, etc

[@iverson4764]

Also to see how stupid you are, romanians în ww2 was a Nazi nation aliat with Germany and toogheter they make pogrom agains rroma gipsy and jews

[@achillesglacia7700]

Stereotypes people call it...and forget the meaning of the word. Stereotype doesn't mean everybody, yes we know, but it certainly means most, aka on average. People say stereotypes as if to denounce it as a non fact, but stereotypes is fact. It exist out of an enmass observation and didn't come out of nowhere! You're 100% correct, and this video is full of sht.

[@i_wouldprefer_not_to1196]

@@achillesglacia7700Well, it is AJ+…

[@owenlj6261]

Never ask a man his salary A woman her age Or a European their opinion on romani

[@Pepe8696]

Ask me and imma say i hate em

[@owenlj6261]

@@Pepe8696 don't care, didn't ask, plus you're European

[@Pepe8696]

@@owenlj6261 good for ya mate

[@prehistoriccreature1800]

@@owenlj6261 cry about it

[@ParadoxlnABox]

@@Pepe8696same

[@augustevarkalaite321]

In Lithuania we had a big problem were we were trying to integrate Roma people into our society, but it was hard for them to keep children in school, especially girls. And then without education the poverty circle kept going, so Roma people made a living selling drugs in their village outside of the city. A few years ago social housing was provided for Roma people in different parts of town to encourage integration into general society. I hope that with these measures they can integrate well and have the social support needed to keep children in schools. Last year we had a first Roma restaurant open in the capital and it’s doing pretty well.

[@rastlonadjalin9455]

Here they raid village farms

[@twomp5613]

@@rastlonadjalin9455 I’m sorry they do what!?

[@twomp5613]

@@rastlonadjalin9455 like Vikings

[@rastlonadjalin9455]

@@twomp5613 Raid and destroy farms, vinyatds and obout everything not in the village.

[@twomp5613]

@@rastlonadjalin9455 wow wild

[@maksimovicgoran]

I'm 40 years old and only last year was the first time I ever saw a Romani person working a regular job,as a cashier at a supermarket.

[@nauticalnovice9244]

Not surprising

[@turgidbanana]

Management better check that till.

[@stanleyj9839]

@@turgidbanana what’s wrong with you? how many generations are you going to carry those prejudices

[@Schoolsaredisease]

🍌 swastika spotted

[@yovmanable]

@@stanleyj9839 lol what are you talking about. The question is: Whats wrong with the gypsys :D

[@LeiSnows]

A romani tried to pickpocket me once using a kid as he distracted me. I'm not one for violence but when I felt a hand in my pocket from behind my first instinct was a immediate elbow straight back. Into a 10 year old gypsies face. I smacked the kid hard as he was stunned and then got punched by the romani man. And then he discovered what a specifically sharpened key to the throat felt like when I stabbed him with one.

[@vj8406]

Yikes

[@ComeAndSee101]

Wait what 🤨😂😂

[@madalinnick2498]

Hope you didn't have much problem with the police, these people have more human rights than the average person

[@Gosh..]

🧢

[@svenskaela1234561]

I was always friends with Roma since I was a child I had two best friends in my class we would spend everyday together then one of them disappeared. We later found out she was sold by her family to be married she was 9. My other best friend disappeared at 11 also sold to a man. As I grew up I witnessed so many disgusting things that the Roma did they would have so many children that the children themselves didn’t know their names bcs they never got named. After my friends were sold I stayed away from Roma people in my city. I know there are those who live normal lives and I respect them but those who still follow their traditions so closely they sell their own daughters as children disgust me and no matter what I can’t see past that.

[@altayyerassyl3213]

Probably your best friend is going to sell his/her children and and it will keep happening throughout generations because it is normal for them. We as individuals can't solve these problems, it is more of a governmental problem, imho.

[@gogudelagaze1585]

Heh, funny you should mention the "children didn't know their names because they never got one". There was a fairly large roma community where I grew up, and one of my best friends was one of them called Televisor. He got that name, because that's what his family wanted to have at the time. He has a brother called Doctor, and a sister called Money. Ironically, he's the only one that managed to get away from that environment, and build a solid base for his kids.

[@mohammadalmuzayyan7147]

I mean your daughter getting married at 12 wasn't that big of a deal then, it was still an issue with forced marriage

[@shikhaSingh-ty3ll]

Because they don't have a any work to earn .

[@Bubble23428]

⁠@@mohammadalmuzayyan7147 It‘s clearly pedophilia and these people would’ve been shot if they tried this in the U.S.

[@priyankapalit4900]

As a foreigner in Spain... I had a horrible experience and interactions with Romani people. They thought they could bully and say anything to me just because I was a foreigner from a third world country.

[@paganpoetry5931]

sorry that happend to you

[@doriantomic8219]

such irony lol

[@desitraveller4282]

Little did they know that they were interacting with their fellow Indian after being seperated for thousand year😊

[@immortalwarrior2695]

@@desitraveller4282 if I take your logic, then mongolids community are same. That includes Chinese, Japanese, Mongols, Koreans, Tatars and much more. These guys are not related to Indians at any point. Not saying I am racist but they are not related. Just as Koreans, Japanese, Chinese or otherwise says they are not related despite coming from one single genepool that is now diverged

[@desitraveller4282]

@@immortalwarrior2695 You're getting it all wrong. I'm not claiming it by myself,there are proper genealogy research and reports available about them. They're indian from central indian state of Rajasthan,who are thought to have migrated to Europe after fleeing war in their native land. People in Rajasthan are infamous for being nomadic. Even today there are communities like Banajaras scattered around India who roam from one place to another after stay at farm. Banajara literally means wanderer in Hindustani. Bhraman in Sanskrit means to roam. If you interract with or watch videos of Romani people, their language at core is similar to Rajasthani language, tharo(your) mharo(mine). Their language is influenced by the locality or country they live in. For instance,romas living in eastern Europe have heavy influence of Slavic words in their language. There's a dance form in Spain called flamenco, it's similar to indian classical dance called Kathak. Guess what even this dance form was introduced to Spain by the Gypsies otherwise known as Roma. I can go on and give you dozens of proofs of their indian origins.😄

[@lovelessissimo]

The disgust isn't based on race; its behavior.

[@thetwopunchman6113]

Agreed, my families encounter with them have been nothing but awful

[@xyeB]

Wrong again

[@lovelessissimo]

@@xyeB No.

[@Schoolsaredisease]

Yeah Yeah Lol

[@lukehickford4322]

and Behaviour is based on repression, segregation and frustratration on how people are treated. Look at how America used to view the Black community or how Europe viewed Jews. Integration will only heal this prejudice keeping people in a box only fortifies the box they have been put in. I live in the UK and people forget that during WWII during while food was scarce and rationed it was Roma women that worked the fields for farmers to provide food.

[@percivalgooglyeyes6178]

Every culture or ethnic group other than Romani have made some positive contributions to humanity. I challenge anyone to find a significant contribution made by the Romani. Lying, cheating, stealing and vulgarity are not contributions.

[@henkkahenrik4183]

Music, entertainment and culture.

[@Shipidge]

As an Italian who has had a terrible experience with Romani people (mugged once, scammed, and threatened), I personally stopped giving a crap about the Romani. I have tried being positive and kind to them, but something about their culture is absolutely atrocious. It's like even when I try being honest with them and try giving them a hand by giving fresh fruit or a bottle of water to them whenever I do encounter them in my local park, they just give me a weird look and sometimes tell me to leave. Ever since I got mugged by one of them for 11 lousy euros, I just stopped giving and stop caring for them. You may think only a small percentage of people in Europe hate them and discriminate against them, but the truth is that almost every European absolutely openly despises them, including me now.

[@adrianghandtchi1562]

I understand you have negative feelings about certain people, what does that experience completely dictate entirety of the population? You don’t have to try to be nice, you don’t have to try to be anything, just treat your peers fairly

[@Shipidge]

@@adrianghandtchi1562 I obviously know not all of them are like that, but I am not going to gabble my safety on hopes that one of them doesn't do that to me again. They are also not my peers so why should I care? Until the Romani teach their own the values of honesty, hard work, and respect, they will never get out of the slums. To be completely honest, I think it's too late for them anyway and their reputation is beyond saving.

[@keithkoganeislife3144]

@@adrianghandtchi1562 well the rule is you never want to paint a people with the same brush. But like many rules, there’s are exceptions. I’ve been to England many times, never had one positive interaction with them, I have friends who have travelled across and live across Europe, not one positive, all negative. My friend had her watch snatched at a train station by a Gypsy woman, another friend of mine was stalked and harassed in Paris by a group of them, and other members of my family had their property damaged from them. They complain about how they are oppressed but they act in such an uncivilized and abhorrent manner that they don’t see how they are perpetuating the reasons people don’t like them. I mean one bad interaction is an instance, twice is a coincidence, five times is the expectation.

[@apvtethic8818]

Il problema dei Rom è che hanno fatto dei piccoli furti e delle piccole truffe il loro stile di vita, parte integrante della loro cultura e molti attivamente manco vogliono integrarsi. Nel loro caso non è uno stereotipo, è letteralmente una cultura di ladri in cui la brava gente sono la minoranza, e francamente a livello di comunità è anche colpa loro che non fanno nulla a riguardo. Un sacco di altre minoranze si sono riuscite a organizzare per avere successo o riscattare la loro posizione, guarda gli ebrei, i neri, africani, cinesi/giapponesi e mediorientali che spesso creano business e negozi e si integrano e si aiutano fra loro, i Rom che hanno anche il vantaggio di essere sul territorio da secoli non hanno mai costruito nessuna fondazione solida e si sono ostinati a rimanere un branco di ladruncoli con la scusa che non sono accettati. Nemmeno gli altri erano accettati, ma hanno comunque combinato qualcosa.

[@Klongu_Da_Bongu]

@@adrianghandtchi1562 You have never met a Roma, and you will never understand until you do. which I really hope you don't.

[@chrisaguilera1564]

Racial discrimination is not an American or European or African problem. It's an integrated human problem. When you have a large group that holds power and wealth you subjugate or put down those that are different because they see themselves as superior. I wouldn't be surprised if Neantrathals met a similar end when they met our ancestors.

[@jzk2020]

No... its a White thing. You Europeans went around the world and pushed the narrative and value system be it in India, Americas, Australia, Middle East, Far East Asia or Africa. It was always white Europeans that pushed that value system on others. Its a WHITE problem and issue. These other people doing it are just cowards following the value system of those with the most power/influence.

[@respectknuckles428]

They will they are having more deaths than births! it over for yts!!

[@siyacer]

It's not a problem, it's human nature.

[@itumo2645]

@@siyacer >>> Mankind has committed many atrocities that could be argued to be human nature. Yet, we’ve become better as a species and improved our moral outlook.

[@freezerman7109]

@@itumo2645 don't bother him, he's just a stupid troll with no working brain.

[@miryamamar9471]

They feel that they have a Moral Right to STEAL, SCAM, NOT PAY TAXES and ABUSE GAUDJA! If you want to call justified fears of Romani racism, what can one say?

[@surdaCZE]

ill be a rasist if it means i can protect myself and loved ones from them

[@DCFunBud]

What is guadja?

[@miryamamar9471]

@@DCFunBud A non-gypsy is a Gaudja. They are fair game for exploitation by Gypsies.

[@lividsnacks]

Every Romani I’ve met in retail was one of the worst experiences of my life…

[@luckluca8982]

*were

[@spaceshuttledoorgunner125]

I thought I didn't judge people by their heritage, culture, religion, race, until I got to know the Roma people in various countries around Europe. Initially I was one of the people who got in to verbal arguments with people that "we should never judge any people because of their...." when I heard people talking ill of the Roma people which I didn't know of, but did eventually. Am sure there are good Roma people, but 99.9% of the Roma people I have come across has deeply depressed and upset me. How vulgar and uncultured (outside their culture, which is where they choose to live but not follow the law of the lands) they can be and how proud they are of it. The woman in the interview should point out how many social, education, labor programs there are in most European countries of which they just do not take advantage and how this leads to discrimination. Why does she not explain how the Roma people pass their children around to different mothers in different streets to beg to ultimately hand this money over to papa Roma guy? Give them more power? What? How about starting the change from the family unit and work the way out and up? Am sorry. But it's the truth from my experience.

[@SuperCulverin]

Neat. Now tell everyone how you feel about the other non-native people who live in Europe, refuse to integrate, exercise special rights, and claim special victim status . I think it rhymes with "shoes".

[@xXEGPXx]

@@SuperCulverin This is why your parents stopped speaking to you

[@thecrimsondragon9744]

Exactly. You can't expect people to respect you if you constantly lie to them, cheat them and steal from them. The Roma need to change their ways if they wish to be respected, because the widespread lack of basic morals/ethics is really very disturbing.

[@yeedbottomtext7563]

@@SuperCulverin nice frog

[@riperr384]

@@SuperCulverin basiet und rotgepilled

[@emperorpaws8447]

I really don't wanna be "that" guy but in my country in my neighbourhood there's a strong romani gypsy community and has sprawled quite alot, they probably make about 10% of my city population due to the high amount of kids they get, and i really wish i had good things to say about them, but i don't, i've spent my whole life in one way or another trying to avoid really the gypsies in my neighbourhood since i've moved here in 1998, i was 8 at the time and here's some stories i've heard of what romani people do and or have done here. Romani teens couldnt go to school so they'd catch kids who they knew had rich parents, and pointed knifes at their chins asking for all the money they had in their pockets ( back then you could tell who the rich kids were if they had a cellphone ). Romani women were loud and obnoxious in many service areas, they'd jump the line and half of them would be pregnant all the time and they would use the excuse of being 8 month pregnant to skip the lines. Romani men are almoust never admitted to work in production lines or wharehouses even construction work, i've worked in similar places and according to my experience there they are rarely given a job because they arrive late, some days don't arrive at all, and always ask for more money and or more benefits. Romani teens here were known for distributing drugs mostly weed at that time when it was still illegal in my country and they'd hand it over to their younger brothers to give it to older teens who came from middle income, many a times these young romani kids would sport knifes and threatened to stab other teens if they refused to buy it. Romani men and sometimes women do a thing called parking help, in many non observable places by the police where people in my country have to park their cars in open dirt or muddy places, romanis are seen around patrolling the place, they guide drivers to places where they can park their car because it's available, then they ask for a small change, usually 1 euro, if we dont pay they'll scratch our car doors with something sharp like a key. My sister owns a small business with her husband selling used car parts and doing mechanical work on cars, they have guard dogs like german sheppards and such, the romanis have a small tin house establishment on the other side of the woods, many a times they tried to jump over the sharp fence to grab car parts that are scattered from old cars, sometimes they stole radios still attached to cars that were meant to be sold to be crushed. Romanis here made a living stealing from electrical power sources the copper inside, they found ways to rip through the rubber fabric of electrical wires just to steal the copper and sell it in various means, some of them even use clandestine websites mainly the dark web to acess the black market to sell copper they steal. We've had multiple instances of small village settlements losing power due to romanis jumping over and cutting power supplies from houses and what not. Romanis here account for most ATM theft and they always do it at night but only in small villages where police patrol isn't as strong. No one in my country messes with romanis, they have a strong family bond, if a romani gets into a fight with a non romani, the entire romani family ( i'm not kidding ), grandparents, parents, uncles, brothers, sisters, cousins, second degree family members all join the fight and plot their revenge, if a court case is established between a romani and a non romani, all of their family will go to threaten the judge and supporters of the non romani in the case to win the case over to their favour, sometimes lines as long as over 100 romanis can be seen outside courthouses. similarly when one of them get severely sick they also all go to the hospital to stay with them, this was particularly difficult for hospital staffs during covid because they continued the practice of mass invading hospitals to stay with their loved one. the most common issue with romanis is the women and sometimes the men too abuse the social pension programs our government offers, because their lifestyle is soo bad and poor they find ways to hide most of their stolen riches and smear themselvs to look poorer as soon as social pension program entities go and investigate their living standarts, if they look bad enough they leave and let them continue have their special pension while they do nothing but resort to crime, and no finding work ( mostly because they don't want but also because they're discriminated in finding work themselvs but again that is also their own fault ). They are also the most common ethnic minority of public unrest and theft in my country, they count for over 95% of all pickpockets specially to tourists. In short, i really wish i could have good things to say about them, but i just don't unfortunently :\

[@franciscoricca8309]

bro, do you live in Portugal? Because this is exactly what happens in Lisbon with the gypsis!

[@emperorpaws8447]

@@franciscoricca8309 Yes I live in Aveiro XDDD

[@Tounushi]

@@franciscoricca8309 From Lisbon to Lappeenranta the situation with them is laregely the same.

[@paulmccann8494]

from dublin here, thanks for speaking the truth, in my exp it has been the same, they in general dont intergrate and expect a hand out , its the same with the traveler community . while there are no doubt good individuals in both communities , their lifestyle and culture enivitabke leads to negative results

[@franciscoricca8309]

@@emperorpaws8447 LOL portuguese unity I guess

[@santaklaus11]

Whoever wrote this has never interacted with gypsies.

[@loving_harp]

word.

[@Katie-mw7pd]

I don’t often use the term “internalized misogyny,” but I don’t know any more fitting words to describe the way these women defend a culture that sees them only as baby-making machines.

[@Americanbadashh]

That's most cultures, sadly

[@view1st]

Perhaps they should see themselves as liberated women whose purpose is to serve capitalism having had the privilege of being forced to go to school where they learn how to be good workers who put capitalist production before human reproduction.

[@tkatrich3]

​@@view1st😂. I take my house and bed and income that allows me to not need to beg or steal than be forced to birth 9 children and be too illiterate to read your comment thanks.

[@Qwerty-jc3so]

​@@view1st shut up, commie

[@moonarpita7515]

@@view1st soo true

[@usbgus]

I can say a thing or two about the Bulgarian Integration plan. Speaking from direct experience, it's not rooted in racism. It attempts to integrate Roma people in normal society by providing work opportunities, education and improving the standard of living. A lot of schools here are so low in students that the teachers literally go from door to door and beg Roma parents to send there children to school. Even the free abortion thing is done not to limit the number of Roma but because a lot of underage girls leave school when they become pregnant. There are also contraception and vaccination campaigns being done with the help of health mediators. Most of the time these mediators are Roma themselves. Granted your average Bulgarian feels and says a bunch of racist things about the Roma people, but I can assure you the integration program is really trying to help these people improve their lives and become part of society. I don't believe it's succeeding much but it is trying.

[@RunninQHsRock]

There's similar misconceptions on both sides of black/white relations here in U.S. Few are willing to face the fact that its never really been about race or inferiority, its different cultures clashing into each other. Romas need to take notes on how self chosen separatism and victim mentality has helped U.S. blacks.

[@weedling3552]

i think in a lot of parts of europe the main problem is many of the roma not wanting to integrate. they are proud of their culture, as they should be. unfortunately that culture includes some negative elements. i dont think its really their fault that their culture is like this, they had to adapt to survive in a largely hostile europe for hundreds of years. generally what ive noticed is that they still see society around them as a sort of enemy that needs to be tricked and fought against for them to survive. so they have a very antagonistic attitude against the society around them. its clearly a holdover from the genocides, discrimination and cleansings they have been subjected too, but youd hope in modern society that they could adapt to a much friendlier environment. (and i think a lot of them do, you dont hear much form them because they are "normal") there just are some enclaves and a large nomad population that keeps passing on these toxic traditions to enough children to outweigh the larger integration effort and people are afraid to directly address these cultural/traditional problems in the roma community in fear of being called racist. in all european countries there are immigrant groups that do a lot better and have only recently just arrived. its not about race, its about culture. no one chooses their race, no one can change their race. everyone has power in how their culture is expressed. people can adapt new cultures, they can integrate and learn. culture constantly changes. some roma just refuse to let the toxic parts of their culture change.

[@theguythatcoment]

the thing is, if the average Bulgarian is racist there's nothing stopping them from using this program as an eugenics tool.

[@zivkovicable]

Suspicions of state institutions by an oppressed minority can take generations to erase. During Nazi occupation of the Balkans, it was those Roma who had settled & had engaged with education & healthcare who were the first to be abducted up by the Nazis as those institutions had conveniently provided lists for them to use, & it was therefor easier to pick them up & send them to death camps with the help of Bulgarian collaborators. . To say there was no anti Roma prejudice in Bulgaria during communism's a joke. I'll give you an example that i have seen on many occasions with my own eyes....Two neighbouring villages, one Roma, the other ethnic Bulgarian. Guess who gets he paved road? Not the Gypsy's for sure. Guess who was labouring to build the road?..Gypsies. You yourself use prejudice language in your post by describing your lifestyle as "normal". implying the Roma lifestyle is abnormal. Forcing people to adapt to your culture is racism. You mention "free abortion"..The more accurate phrase is forced sterilisation. Under both the Nazis & Bulgarian Communist Party.

[@usbgus]

@@zivkovicable that is all true, but it's also the past. I just don't see the same thing today. And I do have relatives who work closely with Roma people. Both on actual jobs and with the government programs. There is nothing forced about contraception programs and free abortion. As a matter of fact it's so much the opposite of forced that in the end it's ineffective.

[@Paris-vc8gt]

There indeed is a big stigma about them in Europe. The sad thing is that where I live (Paris, France), the only contact we have with them is through human trafficked children scamming and stealing not to be beaten up going back at their camp. Or beggars. There are scandals every year about dismantled traffics. So besides european racism they also are hard within the community.

[@abigailno6127]

Hmm I wouldn't say that those are the only contacts that ALL Parisians have with the Roma community, especially those of us that live closer to the peripheries but I get your point. I don't get how the sensationalized (yup I said it) "hardness" within the community compares to the widespread and uninhibited racisme that they face across Europe tho 🤔

[@qjtvaddict]

@@abigailno6127 that sensational hardness acts as anti Romani propaganda dude. You have to dismantle the messaging first to make progress on racism

[@Scotty-P]

Paris is largely not White anymore, is it, and you're still going on about "racism"? Wake up.

[@Betterlife59]

Non c'est vrai, quand je pense aux romes je pense à tout ça. Et il y a des choses que l'on peut voir de nos propres yeux, qui ne sont pas un consensus médiatique ou du gouvernement. Par exemple il y a des femmes qui font la manche avec des jeunes bébés qui dors et ne pleure jamais un peu comme s'ils étaient drogués... Essayez d'offrir un repas à un de ces enfants ou ces femmes en apparence seules et vous verrez qu'elles sont surveillés par une grosse voiture type Mercedes etc. (Vu de mes propres yeux) Donc là derrière il y a forcément un réseau. Les hommes ne sont pas aussi mals nourrits ou habillés que les femmes et enfants d'ailleurs. Je pense qu'il y a des mariages arrangés et toutes ces choses qui sont pourtant interdites en France mais j'habite à Lille et il y a énormément de romes que ce soit en ville ou dans les villages. Les enfants volent, j'ai travaillé au mcdo de lille centre et il y a toujours 2enfant estimation : 8 et 12ans qui vont faire le tour des plateaux pour attraper tout ce qu'ils peuvent sous la justification de demander de la nourriture mais quand ils ont un téléphone ou porte monnaie ils se barrent en courant. Si la police arrive le plus grand souvent à l'extérieur pour guetter siffle sont frère afin de passer entre les mailles du filet. Et encore une fois ils montent dans une voiture neuve. C'est très bien rodé... La police ne va jamais dans leurs camps ils en ont peur, la dernière fois que ça s'est fait il y a eu une fusillade, les roms ayant tirés pour les faire partir. Ils arrivent parfois à mettre la main sur des tonnes de drogue et ça passe dans les journaux et j'y crois parce que c'est dans le camp près de chez moi donc je ne suis plus étonné de rien à ce sujet. Je suis en contact avec des associations de protection animale qui vont chercher des chiens maltraités ou négligés soit qui sont enchaînés à une caravane pour servir d'alarme mais jamais soigné et peu nourri, soit pour être vendu à la manche ou attendrir les gens par le fait que ce sont des chiens en très mauvais état, volontairement bien sûr pour que les gens s'apitoient sur leur sort... Et je peux dire que les associations qui se déplacent la nuit pour ouvrir les cages des chiens ou enlever le collier d'un chien enchaîné sont très courageuses. Encore une fois la police a peur d'y aller donc n'y va qu'en cas de très gros problème. J'en ai encore tellement à dire. En tout cas sans tout ça, s'ils avaient envie de s'intégrer c'est à dire juste se plier à nos lois françaises, ça me paraît être un minimum, alors je serais prêt à laisser tomber mes à priori etc. Mais j'en doute, ils sont appris des le plus jeune âge et ça fait peur même un enfant de 4ans est susceptible de vous attendrir pour vous voler.

[@Betterlife59]

Méfiance sur un truc à la mode aussi: Ceci est partout en France j'ai eu le coup à lille et aussi à Toulouse et d'autres mon dis l'avoir vécu à Bordeaux, paris etc, toutes les villes où il y a des touristes. En ce moment il y a un truc qui tourne beaucoup chez eux dans les grandes villes c'est de cibler des touristes, ils te montrent un papier qui dis qu'ils sont sourds et qu'ils récoltent de l'argent pour une association de sourds tout en faisant mine de parler la langue des signes (très mal d'ailleurs). Ils demandent juste une signature mais au moment de signer il y a écrit"minimum de 10e." Et oui c'est un don qu'ils veulent et si vous ne voulez pas et que vous avez signer ils ne vous l'acherons pas, prêts à vous suivre etc. Bien sûr ils ne sont pas sourds le but c'est de voir ce que vous avez dans le porte monnaie quand vous donnez de l'argent ou bien si votre sac dispose de quelque chose d'intéressant, si c'est le cas alors ils feront un signe discret à leurs collègues (ils fonctionnent TOUJOURS en groupe) et certains irons vous arracher votre sac ou glisser la main dedans dans une foule quelques rues plus loin. Le problème c'est pas tant le vol mais on peut voir des disputes très violentes si la victime refuse de laisser partir son sac ou autre...

[@frankkolton1780]

A thousand years and still haven't been able to assimilate normal society, that sounds more like a problem with their culture. If you never have the desire to better yourself through education and hard work, if you don't teach your children to have respect for the laws, then you can expect "marginalized". That holds true for any culture.

[@AI...]

I found it interesting that I learned from the comments more than I did from the video, I'm not from Europe and I always hear people talking about gypsies, I was curious to learn about them and came across this video.

[@samueltourist]

I live 100 meters away from the biggest population of Roma people in spain and I can tell you from my own experience that the Roma people can be very nice but you also need to look out with them. How much I see them pickpocket , intimitade people , fighting, throwing trash where ever they go etc. They do not allow any "White" spanish person in their circle unless you are from the goverment or NGO and you have something that helps them or is "free" etc. I have a good friend who is Roma and he is very succesful but he himself said that they are very close minded people and education is not the main priority in their culture. He tried once to have a "White" spanish girlfriend and told his mom and she said she can never be part of the family and better not to tell the rest. All in all not everything is done well by the goverment here at all regarding this ethnic group but the group itself needs to be willing to integrate as well.

[@coldhands2802]

Yeah but everyone just wants to sat "wyt ppl bad" and not face actual reality.

[@taylormatthews4848]

sounds like there the racists....

[@newbornspirit]

yeah, the african fare better than them on term of integrating to society. they have centuries to integrate, not decade or year

[@monke6912]

@@coldhands2802 thats becouse reality is way worse, like most of them get pulled aut of scool at 14 and that wrong doings that your parents teached you can take 10 years to even try to fix some of bad habbits

[@coldhands2802]

@@monke6912 Well that sounds like a them problem.... it's not our fault they don't value education and other societal norms...

[@paddy1952]

I've interacted with Roma exactly six times that I know of, and in three different countries. All six encounters shared one unifying feature. Petty crime. In four interactions, the Roma stole or were stealing something from me or someone else. In two, they were actively scamming people. I don't like to generalize about any group based on the actions of such a small sample, but it's hard for me to see the Roma in any other way.

[@MarcusBP]

When tornadoes hit in Oklahoma that do a lot of damage, the Travelers/Gypsies often show up about two days later. Usually from North Carolina for some reason. They're here to scam people who need repairs done. They take advantage of those who need to get their home livable again. They take the deposit for materials, and run. In a bad tornado in 2013, they also came loaded with stolen furniture in a large mover truck, and sold off the back. The police became aware of them, and some were arrested. It is reprehensible for any group to do that in a crisis, but Gypsies seem to have no problem scamming the desperate.

[@TheTrainstation]

If you had the parents and harsh upbringing they had you would be the same, as would all of us

[@Klongu_Da_Bongu]

@@TheTrainstation Nah mate, you're blaming other things for your problems. Nothing will change if someone doesn't accept responsibility.

[@Klongu_Da_Bongu]

@@Aadrian7 Roma are different from blacks. Blacks evolved during their stay in america. They were transformed from africans to african americans, a part of America. But Roma are not a part of any society. They are not kicked out mind you, they self segregate.

[@paddy1952]

@@Aadrian7 Their behaviour is their choice. If they wish to be seen differently, then they need to behave differently. Until they figure that out, we owe them nothing.

[@abeeceedee1842]

They are not European

[@popularentertainment7360]

Like it or not we are now 😘

[@bovv07]

@@popularentertainment7360i would rather not be european.

[@popularentertainment7360]

@@bovv07 never said i want to be European myself 🫤

[@BritishEmpireV2.0]

If you deal with them everyday like I do, trust me, you will have a very negative experience.

[@LailandiAdventures]

Unfortunately it takes two to tango and governments have given the Roma plenty of chances to participate in society but they seem to blow it too often. Students leaving school despite having good grades, houses given for free only to be trashed, jobs organised and turned down etc. If they don't want to help themselves then they can't complain.

[@paulsawczyc5019]

Looks to me that they are learning how to play the race card.

[@fetijajasari9522]

What about involving the people, asking, what they want, talking to them, not about them? I'm soooo fed up with complains about Romani people not honoring the efforts of the main population. Not adjusting, not giving their own culture up to adjust. Did you, the main culture not have times when you were afraid of losing your identity, your culture if you tolerate too much of foreign elements in your own culture? Imagine you are not the only one, especially with the experience of the Nazi camps, with the century old experience of being forcibly tried to adjust, harrased, wiped out. Would you trust? Thank God not all Romani families and tribes are like the one most described as an negative example. Most I know would die of shame if but a distant cousin would behave like that!!

[@kattodoggo3868]

@George Boehringer i dont know about that. Natives kn usa have all the rights to play a race card. Government owes them land and reparations for what they ddid to hem

[@kennyb1588]

@George Boehringer I think the problem is you’re just a racist. “Lower race” seriously?

[@monke6912]

@@kattodoggo3868 you dont get kindess by trowing hate, if you impress others that you are less of a human and trying to destroy society then dont be suprused when they start to peramently hate you, besides many people would kill themself yust to live in america and have higher education

[@angeltzepesh1]

Im so tired of this "racism" word being thrown around when we talk about gypsies. Most of us are not racist, but living a lifetime around them made us learn to keep our pockets safe, because if you will be stolen from in Europe, it will be a gypsy 99.99% of times. Im from Romania, where we have the biggest population of gypsies and life is not pleasant around them, to be fair. Im lucky to have a gypsy community in my village that is more civilized and got integrated well with the rest, but you still have your weekly fight and police visit. The thing only gets worse when you go to bigger towns and cities, pickpockets and scammers are everywhere, all gypsy. You can also read comments from different countries like France or Germany, where many migrated from Romania after joining EU, the stories said there are not hood either. Most countries tried to integrate them, but is so hard when their culture is so full of anti-social behavior.

[@missmcphee8859]

Yes completely agreed, my comment got deleted for some reason but basically 99.9% of people have only bad interactions with them

[@Intel-i7-9700k]

@@missmcphee8859 Well, they can delete all they want. Reality cannot be altered to their wishes. Or to their disconnected worldview.

[@terimorris6394]

The question is How is your English so good? Im amazed at comments here from all around Europe and even Roma people writing comments in such clear and correct grammar in English, yet many foreigners living in the UK for years still struggle to speak and write

[@s.t.robertson6809]

Refreshingly candid post. Thank you. Cheers from California

[@eric_david._]

​@@terimorris6394he isn't a roma/gipsy😂😂 gipsies are uncultured

[@tonyem5458]

I'd like to see myself as an open and understanding person, always trying to give people a chance. As a Swede I have had only a few encounters with Romani people. And every time has just been worse than the one before. Never in my life have I met more racist and homophopic people, calling both white and black people names, un-pure and other disguisting things. I have only personally experienced shoplifting twice, both times Romani people. As a gay man, I have been very lucky in my life. Sweden is a great place to live for HBTQ+ people like myself. I have only been harassed like three times in my life (for being gay). Which is a low number compared to other homosexual people that I know. And the worst encounter was again, with Romani. When they found out about me having a boyfriend, not only did my bike get stolen "randomly" the day after. But they gave me dirty looks, refused to be near me etc. Maybe I have had unlucky experiences sure, but most of the stereotypes about them seem to be true. And I will never understand, nor will I never respect the Romani people for that. That's just my honest opinion.

[@kalamar_from_slovakia]

wtf is HBTQ

[@tonyem5458]

@@kalamar_from_slovakia sorry! LGBTQ***

[@kalamar_from_slovakia]

@@tonyem5458 Ahh, I tought you guys changed it again or something...

[@Codreanu_Prezent]

What? The only based thing the Roma can do is reject the alphabet people?

[@colbyzur4642]

⁠@@kalamar_from_slovakiamy first thought was that it was a pun to be like “hetero, Bi, trans, queer” and it honestly got a slight laugh out of me😂 I quickly assumed it was just a typo though

[@algar4643]

They came to the European continent several centuries ago and never became integrated into any European countries, they've never been willing to. If all the native Europeans think the same about them, there must be a well-grounded reason for that, the responsability can't rest on the whites just because they are assumed to be racist. The responsability also rests on the gypsies themselves and their behaviors in the societies with which they co-exist. The woke classic perspective imported to Europe and aloof from the real European experiences and perspectives.

[@sanserof7]

It has nothing to do with race. Ethnically they are Indian, nobody has a serious problem with Indians. Europe has many Indian expats. It's the culture that's the problem.

[@sanserof7]

@@JeffKay-wu8jd No they're not.

[@rotshepherd3817]

​@@sanserof7they used to be Indian. In my country we have both and they are visibly differently physically.

[@AndyTheBulgarianDude]

This video is just telling one side of the stroy. I've grown up in a working class neighberhood in Bulgaria with mixed Bulgarian and Gypsy population. I've grown up and played with gypsies. By no way, shape or form I think gypsies are bad people or anything of the sort. A lot of them want a higher education and honest jobs, but also a lot of them: - need to be forced by the government to send their kids to school and still don't; - child brides; - have build gypsy communities on land they never bought and are not paying any taxes for, and when the government wants to use the land IT OWNS the gypsy communities start calling it represion and are left alone with free land; - those communities have horrible living conditions brought upon by the gypsies themselves by burning tires and throwing garbage not in dumps but just all around their own community; - refuse to take jobs with official contracts, because they don't want to pay the taxes ( in all honesty a lot of Bulgarians do that ); - have huge numbers of kids without having any way of supporting them and then complain that the government should be giving them MORE free benefits because their children have nothing to eat. Those benefits by the way are payed by taxes, - most gypsies have payed little to no taxes in their lives; - there are cases where the government build apartment buildings and gave them for free to gypsies to live in, within a year or two the buildings were mostly torn apart by the gypsies for the free scrap, oh and kept farm animals within the buildings; - most begger schemes, small theft/shoplifting and a large portion of prostitution is run by gypsy "lords", - I know 2 guys that have physically attacked a gypsy, but I know literelly at least 10 that have been physycally attacked by gypsys, including multiple cases of sexual abuse. And if you get in an argument 1vs1 with a gypsy you can be sure the tomorrow 10-20 will be waiting for you, no matter your age or gender. Again, gypsies ARE NOT BAD! And we DO need to find a way to help them have better lives and be a better contributing members of society. But it is hard to help someone who doesn't want to help themselves.

[@rug8558]

Same in Slovakia. It's easy to say that you should not be "racist" or prejudiced against them, but the two times someone attempted to broke into our house, it were gypsies. When you watch news, about half of them are gypsies. Many of them do want to get better life and education, however most of them don't. In my town there's a gypsy ghetto where they have horrible life(or look up Lunik 9) and you don't want to walk through there.

[@cheemschandani5982]

exactly like Muslims in India

[@k.k.c8670]

@@cheemschandani5982 like Muslims in India? Please elaborate cause I can't see the connection.

[@Bread-nx9fo]

"some people do this so that means they're all doing it, BUT IM NOT A RACIST GUYS" what a genius here.

[@AndyTheBulgarianDude]

@@Bread-nx9fo that is exactly the opposite of what I wrote. Tho whole thing basically says: - there are "good" and "bad" gypsies (just like any other ethnic group ever). The problem being that the once that are having a negative impact in the community (including gypsy community) have absolutely no intention of changing their ways.

[@zakariakaleem3271]

I find this video odd as it only focuses on just the roma community in Europe, when in fact they are found in many regions in Eurasia, including the middle east and Arabia, where they are treated like shit as well, AJ+ should be aware of this as its parent company is from that region

[@martinrosemary5654]

In South America too.

[@zakariakaleem3271]

@Sanctus Paulus 1962 its actually a pro Qatari news network, they will shit talk the Iranians as well

[@slurpii4669]

@@martinrosemary5654 sure.....

[@cocoaorange1]

Never knew that.

[@abhinavav7770]

There are hardly any Gypsies in middle East except Iran

[@Sitharos]

We used to have a family of Rom come into the grocery store I worked at and we knew they were stealing and scamming the cashiers by manipulating the kind of change they wanted. Eventually the store owner had enough. He had 2 security guys follow them around when they came in, and stand like 5 feet away from them at all times and watch them like hawks. When they got to the check out line, a cart filled with 10 25lbs bags of dog food was pushed behind them, one guard took up position at the door and the other held the dog food cart in place . So they were essentially trapped in the check out lane. The cashier turned off her light and the store manager was called over and put in a fresh till with barely any cash in it and took over the register for their transaction. They were told they would be checked out, and if they even asked for any alteration on the order or their change or presented any of their clearly fake coupons, they would be detained in the security office, the police called, they could sort it out with them and then they would be perma-banned from the store. After the 3rd time of this we never saw them there again. They showed up about 6 months later in the news when the cops busted them for drug trafficking and dog fighting.

[@user-cm4op2kz3y]

Romani people are probably the only group of people where everyone I've met is either a scam artist or a criminal. It's insane

[@popularentertainment7360]

You seem to forget majority Roma blend into society and are not noticed you woudlent even know there Roma unless they tell you

[@TheRealPsychoGeniusRevengeance]

​@@popularentertainment7360>wouldnt notice even though they look like lighter indians

[@popularentertainment7360]

@@TheRealPsychoGeniusRevengeance not all some gypsies can look Arab Indian or even European most gypsies know look punjab or Lebanese no one would think of us as gypsies when they first meet us

[@Alek4275]

I'm not sure it's about racism. Back when I was a kid i remember my parents runned a shoes and clothings shop not far from a big and often empty parking area. There sometimes roma's groups stopped for a bit and then many of them could start to be seen around the village. Everytime a Roma entered my parents shop they had to keep an eye on them just to be sure nothing was going to be stolen, and every single time they caught them trying to leave the shop without paying. I'm not saying other customers never tried to steal, but not in the 100% of the cases. I must add: this is probably racism but I'm sure that if they payed for what they wanted my parents would have been 100% glad to have them around. To sum up their ideology "as long as it pays, customer is always right", so I'm not sure it's really about racism

[@Nikko1Brown]

I don’t think humans want to be called “it”

[@tiahnarodriguez3809]

It ultimately boils down to why your parents kept a close eye on Romani customers and if they did the same or similar thing to non-Romani customers. Where I live non-Asians, especially black people are watched carefully in stores, but it’s 100% due to racism. Where I live it’s mostly Asian and they can’t stand non-Asians coming into their stores. Luckily think are changing, but it’s very slow.

[@Alek4275]

@@tiahnarodriguez3809 that's why I said this is racists (i meant, a racists behaviour). My parents were definitely recists to a certain extent as they did the same with black and asian people. The difference Is that, even not trusting them, they rarely had to call police for the black and asian families coming to buy, while It was usual when talking about Romas. In my area it wasn't usual to meet others than white people around, but as time runned even my parents got used to it, as they saw there were no reasons to not trust asians or africans. It wasn't the same with Romas.

[@Alek4275]

@@Nikko1Brown well, sorry. Totally unintended. My english Is getting a Little rusty over time

[@tendaifushai5651]

Hi Alek, Nobody can deny that the Roma have issues. But what needs to happen is an acceptance by Europe that it has mistreated them for so long and some of the results of that, we are seeing right now... The feeling I get as an outsider is that they are being tolerated as it would not look good for Europe to overtly deprive them of basic rights.

[@yamchayaku]

I went to the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland, France one a while back. As we entered elevator room, a family of Romanis with about 12 or so childeren entered as well. As soon as the lights went out, I could feel all the children trying to get their hands in my pocket, while my fiance-now wife tried to fight off hands that were trying to get into her purse. Even outside of Disneyland, I had a problem with people which look like Romanis bumping into us, trying to pick our pockets, or sending swarms of kids on us to get something. You can see why people are on guard whenever Romanis are present. It's not racism, it's simply just pattern recognizing and reaction. People are conditioned to be wary of Romani presence, or get their stuff stolen. They're also not doing a very good job dispelling this image either.

[@Meatlover971]

You're a coward 😤

[@yamchayaku]

@@Meatlover971 Coward of getting your belongings stolen? You're spewing some weird stuff. You can't exactly punch kids that are trying to rob you can you? Unless you're some sadistic pedo.

[@avo.avocado]

yeah if you don’t want your people to have a bad reputation you have to be a good representation if your people and act on your best behavior. You cant expect people to not be wary of Romas when they are constantly getting robbed. For example, im black and I try to dress and act properly to not reflect badly on my people because I want to see our communities improve and dont want people to look down on us

[@aclown36]

I don't hate blacks im just on guard whenever a black person comes near my wallet

[@user-ed6hd9yj7x]

You can say that literally about any race. And btw it is racism

[@main9087]

If they stopped acting like stereotypes, the stereotypes would stop...

[@40s_fit_and_fab30]

In the UK we need to know more about this , someone make a mini series or film 🎥 about this , this is very interesting

[@liviualexandru8769]

In the village I grew up, there were like 70% roma people and 30% romanians. All i can say is that the roma people had never been discriminated or subjugated by romanians. Even in the school, there were many opportunities that favorized the roma people and defavorized romanians. For example, when going to high school, roma people had reserved places and the grades in the exam didn t even matter, but romanians had to hard learn. Also, romanians in the village never discriminated the roma people. Instead, roma people were always blaming romanians for different reasons. The roma children terrorized old romanian people, verbally abusing them and even destroying their gardens and fences. And the roma people were throwing the trash in the street as a daily basic activity. I tried to explain to some of them that the place of the trash is in the dumbster, but they were laughing at me saying that i am a “fool”. So, I just want to share my experiences with the roma people. I m not racis and never have been, i believe in the equality of races. At least in Romania, they are priviliged, not discriminated.

[@5678sothourn]

Whats the difference between roma and romanian?

[@deciboo189]

@@5678sothourn romanian is of dacian decent, an old european race and romani are migratory tribes from punjabi india who came to europe 1000 years ago.

[@LOrco_]

"In my village lost in the middle of bumfuck nowhere Roma people treat their oppressors in a bad way, that MUST mean that in all of this country Roma people are privileged!!!" That's not how logic works.

[@liviualexandru8769]

@@5678sothourn we need to call them roma people because “gipsies” is considered offensive language

[@liviualexandru8769]

@@LOrco_ you know better than me, alright i can t counter you

[@snoowbrigade]

My brother was in Romania. When he walked out of a bus a bunch of gypsies stole his money, they did this by throwing their infant at him so he had to catch it, then while he was holding their baby they stole the money from his pockets.

[@rocdonk9886]

What the shit. They put all the points in creativity.

[@sravasaksitam]

Wow hahaha

[@gerald1495]

sad part is people are dumb enough to believe this

[@nihilsinedeonihilsinedeo3137]

@@rocdonk9886 and no points in IQ

[@ABCDEF-it4ml]

Honestly, this story sounds fabricated

[@jamaicadecena7771]

The hate against the romani is well deserved. I mean if you are universally hated in europe, a place less than a century ago was hell bent on killing each other, you've earned and deserve the reputation.

[@teresasaavedravargas2160]

Oh great, now I feel so much safer in Europe with your comment... If the EU had to depend on people like you, I would be killed by now

[@MMOfreakOUT1]

@empty She is a gypsy... she can only blame her fellow Romas.

[@chrisbednarsky17]

This is so far from reality. I have lived in Poland and witnessed Roma communities, the reality is, there is no „racism“. They dont let their kids go/stay in school, steal, break in houses, get in fights, insult people in Poland. I never had a good interaction with any Roma, so shut up about „racism“, they earned the respect they have.

[@sirvelociraptor2590]

​@@scarlett2299lol they don't though, because the poles at large don't behave in such ways.

[@rococostyle]

As an American reading this…. this sure sounds racist to me. I copied and pasted your comment and replaced only four words below: “This is so far from reality. I have lived in America and witnessed Black communities, the reality is, there is no „racism“. They dont let their kids go/stay in school, steal, break in houses, get in fights, insult people in America. I never had a good interaction with any Black person, so shut up about „racism“, they earned the respect they have.”

[@zadovrus1624]

People don't just hate Romani people for nothing. It's a reputation gained over generations. I don't have many experiences with Romanis and the ones that I do have are all negative (attempted pickpocketing, attempted beating)

[@CRAZYHORSE19682003]

They sound just like black people in America.

[@CA-wd9zw]

Exactly! It’s hard earned!!!

[@arpandey698]

People hated Jews for genrations, until the unthinkable happend.

[@gyrozeppeli8303]

Bit of a generalization, no ?

[@mikebison9882]

Not really i have encountered many gypsys in my life and have never had a positive experience

[@JC-rr1wu]

It's not possible to solve the problem of discrimination and persecution by only portraying them as victims. Those who are seen as "problematic" and criminal are those who live in parallel societies, with internal laws and norms which crashes with their surrounding society. Let's be honest, some Romani are stigmatized as thieves, beggars, scammers, squatters and as posing a hygienic health risk by what people experience. Unless they are willing to really take effective measures to combat those aspects of those parts of Romani culture, they will never lose their stigma of being problematic, and will never be regarded as fully citizens of their host countries. You can not demand that racism and discrimination should magically seize to exist, not without making any effort to weed out the troubling aspects of your culture. Like it or not, but as a species we're hardwired to discriminate and stereotype.

[@justonemori]

Great, now tell that to a group of African Americans without starting a riot.

[@flavioestrada5933]

Dumb take

[@fern7306]

👍🏼

[@sravasaksitam]

@@justonemori Don't compare African Americans to Romani lol

[@peacehappyb237]

That does nothing. They will find other ways to discriminate.

[@Mot0193]

Sigh Anyone else just... confused and overwhelmed with mixed emotions about Romani people? On one hand i dont want to generalize them as just "bad people" just because of their ethnicity, but on the other hand a lot of people had negative experiences with them including myself, but Romani dont seem to want to change. Should we help them? Educate them? Maybe, that would be nice, but who is going to do all of that, and how? The people who hate them do have a decently good point: Romani have made a pretty bad name for themselves so that makes it pretty hard to help them. It doesnt help that whenever these people commit crimes in an X country, the news are usually along the lines "Person from X country did crime", and so if you are actually from that country it doesnt feel fair to be associated with the Romani people. And so the cycle begins: Romani did bad thing in X, X people gain bad reputation for something they didnt do, so then X people hate Romani. So you can see how this is just a complicated mess to solve. The easy and obvious answer is "Be the better person and try to help Romani people", but unfortunately not all people are that nice, which is understandable, it doesnt feel fair to instantly accept someone who did horrible things to you. And im over here stuck in the middle of this unable to form a proper opinion, with both anger and pity, two very different emotions, fighting in my brain.

[@Dsc870]

They are not EUROPEAN in origyns… they were called gypsy but then they claim romani name because they didnt like it. The origin is Egypt and India… language is similar! Has nothing to do with Romania… Romania name is coming from the Roman Empire.

[@rabbit0.023]

It’s literally proven they aren’t from Egypt. Leave Africa out of this

[@koulematon7359]

90% of current European nations do not have strong roots in Europe. All these nations migrated, like Slavs, Germans etc. from the east. OG Europeans are the Celts, Basques, Lithuanians, Latvians and so on.

[@madu.zza7]

​@@koulematon7359These individuals have been immigrating towards West from the Punjab area (mainly) between 13th to 18th century.

[@mariabop]

They aren't Egyptians 🤦‍♀️

[@EuroUser1]

This report falls into the cliché of presenting the discrimination of Gipsies as something completely inexplicable. It doesn't make the slightest attempt to explain why Gipsies are hated or disliked in so many places. Quite a few Roma have integrated and are now indistinguishable for 'payos' - as Gipsies call everyone else, in Spain. But Roma living in Gipsie-majority communities make terrible neighbours. They refuse to follow laws and common-sense rules; and are often ready to resort to violence if they are called-out. Plus many of them engage in drug traffic, robbery, extortion and similar low-profile crimes.

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

Do they build "houses" without permission on land that does not belong to them and the government refuses to kick them out there too?

[@user-bb2mq2zx3v]

Exactly like they never deserved to face the things they did in the past but it doesn't mean you can break the law and whine about racism when someone holds you accountable

[@saitama3795]

Kind of like one other group that's been hated for "NO REASON" for hundreds and thousands of years, expelled from numerous wildly different societies just because they were too successful and beautiful and awesome.

[@dcanaday]

I visited Europe and helped with some charity events. At one event we were feeding kids in attendance. They would line up and we would give them box lunches. I and others noticed that some of the kids would re-enter the line to get more meals. This meant that other kids might not get their meal. All of those trying to get a second meal were Roma kids. The stereotype of Gypsies being thieves is based on personal experiences. It wasn't just made up.

[@blaba2639]

Anglo detected. Opinion discarded

[@su1t0n11]

@@blaba2639 stfu, I don't even care if he or she is Anglo. As a Romanian I have first hand experiences with the gypsies, and never but never was one that was nice to me. They were always double faced extortionists. Who would do anything to get some money

[@pogo9876]

@@blaba2639 Because you're not a racist, right? Lmfao. How ignorant can you seriously be? You sound just as bad as those you want to "cancel". Good job! Smh.

[@lucasc5622]

@@blaba2639 k

[@Alex-ez1lk]

@@blaba2639 sarcasm?

[@JohnnyJoe]

Live in Sweden and remember when many years ago I saw a Roma family outside a department store, helped the woman put on a Roma dress (such a big and wide one) and saw how they fixed the hook in it (a lot of things got lost in it the store that day). In the neighboring village, a Finnish Swede had a store, she has told that once a family of Roma came in and how the Roma woman, who was the mother, told her adult sons to steal as much as possible while she herself kept the woman in the till. The mother said this in Finnish, not knowing that the shop owner was Finnish. Of course they yelled that she was racist when she kicked them out.

[@KingMinos316]

Yes, was pick pocketed by gypsies in Prague. Reputations happen for a reason.

[@v0rtexbeater]

Calling gypsies "Roma" is an insult to Rome

[@richsteve6970]

Why you racist

[@AhimtarHoN]

Watching this as a Slovak, this video feels completely disconnected from reality. Sure, there are real racists among us, but I believe I'm speaking for most of us here that we are not racist, we just see how most of these people behave and we've learned how to behave accordingly. If 95% of people you've ever met from some community are vulgar, inadaptable and stinky people from a nearby ghetto and you've often seen them take drugs and always cause mess, it's perfectly normal to expect it from the next person of this community you meet too. Of course, there are racist idiots who will meet a well-dressed, classy and clearly educated Romani person somewhere in a bank and they'll look down on him anyway but those are just an extremist minority of the population that won't be helped by watching videos like these.

[@rain-cy6ve]

I ve had pretty much the same experiences more or less with Romani people here in Romania and we do have a large minority of them (i think maybe 2 milion people, i m not very sure now). However I think that the state at least here doesn t exactely do enough to make them integrate, there are some efforts but not very good ones I d say. Social support is just eating away money for no reason if you dont make them understand why it s good to send their kids to school and have them have a better life that way. Self segregation became so ingrained into them that for them education seems pointless and so many other things as well

[@niklasmolen4753]

Their problems are almost entirely self-inflicted. It is very unfair to accuse the rest of us of racism, when they are the bigest racists. They openly say very racist things just because they think no one understands their language. But when you understand what they are saying, you hear how it chronically pours out things that only Nazis and the like would say.

[@Tounushi]

Try those same people who've learned to dress dapper and live in nice apartments, all provided by State money, and yet they still stoop to theft and robbery wherever they think they can get away with it. That's actually how the stereotypical gypsies are spotted: they dress like they're middle-class people from the 1950s. It's the ones in jeans and T-shirts that don't cause as much overt trouble beyond what the host population usually would.

[@coldhands2802]

Lol exactly

[@taylormatthews4848]

agree

[@eleniefthimoglou]

I live in Greece where there have been numerous attempts to integrate the Roma in society. In the primary school I went into, any other group (of which there were many, besides Greeks) had to find a way to get there, but for the Roma kids there where big state paid busses for just a couple of children, mainly girls. After Christmas holidays, these children magically disappeared from school and I later found out the government paid they parents to send them to school. If my mom didn't send me and my brother to school, the child protected services will be called. That's just an example to show how differently they have been treated by the government, giving them housing and funds, only for them to steal, sell drugs and mainly harass other people in the community, verbally of physical. I always try to be empathetic and not fall for stereotypes but the cherry on top for me was the statement by the leader of the Roma community about the lockdown: "How are we supposed to steal now?" -that's a real statement, look it up

[@Wazoru]

@conquerorlalitaditya6550 it's OK, they're brothers now

[@Wazoru]

@conquerorlalitaditya6550 I would not feel sorry for gypsies if they tried to provoke anyone or cause any problems tbh

[@valcs-dreamscollector3258]

integration is genocide. races should and must stay separated. deporting them to India would be better

[@Wazoru]

@conquerorlalitaditya6550 I'm mostly using the Russian Alphabet. I'm not Russian but I am very Russophilic

[@Wazoru]

@conquerorlalitaditya6550 I'm Americam but I do know this Armenian dude online

[@luckyduckydaisyflower2344]

5:15 LOVE HIS ENERGY POINTING TO EVERLAST ON HIS SHIRT. UNFORGETTABLE!

[@Imakebootysclap]

sounds like they invaded and are now mad they arent treated well by the people they invaded.

[@popularentertainment7360]

Stay delu if you knew about gypsy culture you wouldn’t say that since gypsies simply cannot have a country it’s goes against there laws

[@19932603A]

The gypsy problem, at least here in the Balkans, is that the governments do/did try a lot of times to integrate the societies into the country's society (by offering apartments for free, help in education, including giving free points for university enrollment) and ultimately failed in it. However this whole process has a lot of problems and rabbit holes that it's not really simple. Many births aren't reported and hence the children don't "exist" and hence don't have the paperwork/ID/health insurance. There is a large stigma towards Roma who try to educate themselves and very often get no support from their family and because of that you can't really educated a Roma child if it "doesn't exist" and their parents don't WANT the child educated. The parent in this situation decides if their kid will go to school or not even though it is punishable by law if you don't give your child elementary education, however, you can't punish someone who doesn't exist. Society doesn't even help the situation either, with a decent minority, many of Roma are decent and educated members of society, however a vast majority doesn't even integrate. They tend to do criminal activity like theft (money, metals, they also tend to illegally connect to electricity, water, sewage etc) and drug dealing BUT also they don't integrate well with society, they tend to be very filthy, they tend to cause unrest in apartment buildings, they also beg and most people don't have a high opinion of them because of all this negative experience from a majority of a community. Aside of that, many Roma who cause issues can't be apprehended by the police because they are "endangered like Polar bears" and have no identification. The whole issue with Roma is very complex and warries from region to region in Europe.

[@s.p9638]

I agree that it varies but the shared narrative of all roma poeple in europe is endless discrimination for a milennia. There are a lot examples from history, the word gyspy itself denotes someone untouchable and was first used by the byzantines and then the rest of europe. I mean they were barred from entering most cities and it was traditionary to do reserved jobs like kalaidzhis(literally means tinsmith in turkish) and it was not like you could choose otherwise. Entire populations were enslaved like in romania etc. In my opinion it is only understandable that the roma does not trust the state institutions or the respective ''local'' populations that the countries they live in are named after therefore don't even bother registering their children into the system which proved the be fatal for some in the past by the way. I am from Turkey and here we have similar issues surrounding the roma community and the situation is absolutely not ideal yet I would say we probably do not have any roma citizens of turkish descent(there are roma communites migration from other couentries like romania, moldova and bulgaria and they are out of the system for sure) that have not been registered or not in the school system and to be honest romani here are nationalistic as much as any other turk and definetely share at least a feeling of belonging to the country with the rest of the population. It seems like it is not the case for some romani in the balkans. I think the reason beyond that might be related to the war period experienced by the romani in the balkans since it was definetely a disasterous period for them which rightfully might have altered their communal perception of shared identity with the rest of the nation. Also I am not sure if religion might have played a role in the exaggeration of this problem in the balkans since most roma are muslims in the eastern balkans at least and they face double discrimination most of the time which is not the case for turkey's roma community. A comparision between roma communites in the balkans and turkey makes sense because we are essentially talking about the same subgroup of roma people that had a shared history under ottoman rule for at least half a milennia and then was seperated under rule of relatively small nation states and Turkey which have a lot in common but are also quite different in some respects.

[@jamessmith4455]

No offense but that doesn’t sound complicated at all. If they are criminals then arrest them and jail them. If they don’t send their kids to school then send their parents to jail. Offer ways to integrate etc. simple really

[@vasinik]

Nah man, it’s thousands of Romas in lets say little ghettos. it’s impossible to jail those communities, same as US ghettos.

[@MyILoveMinecraft]

@@jamessmith4455 when you arrest all of them you simply don't have the jail space

[@jamessmith4455]

@@MyILoveMinecraft make more jails and less excuses

[@doublehelix7880]

It is a two-way problem. There are a lot of government programs in Europe for integration of the gypsies. But they fail as there is a deep mismatch with the culture of these people. The core problem is their clan based society structure. They stick with their own. In every East European city you can find one or several areas entirely populated by Roma. And it is not because they are forced to live there - it is what their culture is. On a very rare occasion you will see a gypsy family living out of these "gheto"s and the general rule is that these are doctors, teachers, engineers etc. Overall, people that made their choice to integrate themselves into the society. In Bulgaria e.g. the social payments law has been changed with the single purpose to force the Romani parents to send kids to school at least to 8th grade. The condition of receiving child benefits was to have your children going to school. Plus part of the social support has been issued in products - cooking oil, flower, rice, pasta etc. simply due to the fact that many Roma families live on benefits and the cash they receive is either turned into alcohol, drugs, being gambled out or taken by the community "baron" because of loans. Do not get me wrong - not all gypsies are like this. It all depends on what clan they belong.

[@abcxyz-cx4mr]

Who are the good Roma/gypsies in Bulgaria? What clans do they belong to?

[@rarescevei8268]

@@abcxyz-cx4mr the roma that work, go to school and dont commit crimes

[@eclipsos8187]

Issue is there's no real problem with having a clan of people in modern society. You simply make money start a family business. Then start a conglomerate of family business and now you have a rich clan system. Find an area with available space and build clan housing and we'll there really isn't an excuse. The needs aren't really that diffrent then a cult. A cult needs there own compound and there own business etc. So really it sounds more like they don't want to live within the rules at all. I mean if the romani people are really that "clan" based they have opportunities to have a large information network and even possible vertically operated business structure but no they just steal and live off social security.

[@peterwang2254]

In Spain my experience is different. There were given nice apartments for free in nice neighborhood. Brand new with everything...weeks later they had sold every applicance, pipe and went to the street and put fires and cooked there. They said they like freedom. They sell cheap clothing in the weekly markets but no more work either. I'm sorry. They like living for free damage all, steal, sell drugs...that is my experience after 40 years in spain and living in the same neighborhood with the ones born and raised in spain. The ones coming from Romania...dress terrible put kids to beg, offer you money for sex with them outside a business, school,...they have big skirts and they just pooped anywhere under those skirts. They trick you with the romero for money and if you refuse, they yell and become violent forcing you the romero outside mercadona or any other grocery store.

[@user-sz3nn1vv1z]

They are hated all over the world!

[@gunnargiil6993]

This video did not touch on the real issue of why Roma people are looked down upon. The reason is the way they are visible and behave in European cities: Beggars and thieves who leave faeces everywhere, argue and fight loudly and can litter a park in no time. And it is especially older ladies who are their victims of aggressive begging and theft. When I lived and worked in central Oslo, I had to intervene several times. If an old lady gave some money to a Roma woman, she could be embraced by a whole crowd who put their hands in the old woman's pockets. And if they lured an elderly lady into a kiosk to buy them a coffee, they gave the confused woman a shopping cart and put it full of goods before they got to the checkout. Yes, this is probably unfair to most Roma people. But at the same time, it's the real reason why the Roma people are looked down upon.

[@octaviohenrique6079]

you white European and incapable of understanding what our people had to do to survive and our history. hundreds of years of persecution and slavery for you!

[@octaviohenrique6079]

they were scorned and killed as soon as the first arrived in Europe. Gypsies are not born thieves. There's a reason why our people beg in the streets

[@gunnargiil6993]

@@octaviohenrique6079 Noone slaved for me. I believe you when you say life was hard for the roma people. But it's no excuse for bad behaviour today. Most roma people may behave good for what I know, but the reason they are looked down upon, are stll the things I mentioned.

[@kukifitte7357]

@@octaviohenrique6079 Ive got some cockroach spray for subhumans like you

[@_Viking]

@@octaviohenrique6079 yes, the reason is that you don't want to live by the rules in our society. Stealing and scamming doesn't really create a lot of sympathy.

[@dragosserbanescu8267]

While there is a lot of racism going towards the rroma community, to be fair, on the ground the situation is not so simple. Growing up and living all my life near one of the largest gypsy communities in Eastern Europe, Gârcini, in the Romanian county of Brașov, I can tell you from my own life-long experience that people that are part of the gypsy community are also the people that are most likely to exhibit anti-social behaviour. For starters, very often you see them playing loud music (manele in 99% of the times) on the bus, eating sun flower seeds and just littering the bus floor, throwing trash right out on the streets, and generally making a lot of mess. They also have a tendency to be violent, not rarely I've seen them randomly breaking things like street signs, benches, street recycle bins etc. Also, the two times I got beaten up in my 22 years of life, were by some members of a kinda-notorious gypsy family/clan, with whom I had absolutely no bussines with, they just came up to me and starting harassing me, then started beating me up without stealing anything from me. They just did it because they could... and I do know alot of similar cases. While I am not racist, at all, I cannot deny the reality. I kind of understand why this kind of anti-social behavior is so often encountered in the rroma community. Due to centuries of oppression from white folks, they formed a culture around opposing what we normally see as 'civilization', maybe because they collectively associate it with said oppression, and the state is surely not helping at all. "Structural Racism" in the government institutioons certainly is a big thing here. Generally speaking, society has started oppening up to them. While previous generations, like my father and uncles, were talking about the "gypsy issue" in the sense of how to get rid of them, we now *tend* to speak of the "gypsy issue" in the sense of finding a way to integrate them. However, whilst you really see less racism from romanians, the rroma communty doesn't really reciprocate (at least where I live). They still keep their habbits of littering, being aggresive, and generally being "uncivilised". I really hope that the future will bring better lives for these people, as they do live in abject poverty, however alot of them refuse the help when it comes to them...

[@RemusBP]

I have similar experiences in Germany

[@pequenaudtekno2909]

I went to brasov in the dead of winter a few years ago. It was one of the most beautiful cities I ever visited. It was -25° when I was there haha. I also agree with what you said about the Romani, while not all Romani, I lived in a French city for a few years and had a romani man try to rob me for my phone with a knife. It made the stereotype stick even more for me

[@TheSaadraza]

Similar experience in Spain. They are pathetic

[@United-Nations]

Same in Ireland gypsie were having feuds with other gypsies so much so that a county's reputation is ruined

[@katys.7767]

@@RemusBP ya we have alot of issues in germany with sinti & roma. its not being racist but they do not want to integrate probs because of their history, but to fit into a society you must behave and go with the laws of each country. that involves of not being noisy neighbors, recycling your trash, not throwing trash out of the windows and trying to get a grip on the language in the country. i even know some roma people which say a large majority are still uncivilized and dont want to work towards a better life. its sad but sadly the truth!

[@WorstLandsknechtEver]

Those aren't Europeans

[@natalia_92837]

It is common that when we talk about the Roma, in Spain, where I live, racist comments and prejudices are part of the conversation. However, this mini documentary has overlooked something that happens in Spain and according to the comment section of this video, it also happens in other countries and that is that the Spanish government has been giving educational aid to this ethnic group for years to promote studies among them, however, the vast majority of them abandon their studies around the age of 14, especially women who are married and forced to maintain their virginity until marriage so as not to be a "disgrace to their family and their culture" . The lack of education means that they have to work in precarious jobs and many end up in the drug business, occupying other people's houses and stealing. And the truth is that people in general turn away from people who lead this kind of life, whether they are Roma or not, but the fact that most of them are in some way pressured to follow this kind of life for the sake of "following their culture and traditions", prevents greater harmony between this ethnic group and the rest of Spain. However, it is true that in recent years some Roma families have allowed their children to finish their secondary education and some even pursue university studies, unfortunately they are the 1% of their population and these are usually men, but I have had the pleasure to meet and become friends with some of them.

[@Deceba1]

THIS HAPPENS ALL OVER EUROPE!!! STOP FEELING PITTY FOR THEM

[@serbanradu3845]

Did an experiment once, a gypsy asked me for money, said she has no job and no way to support her kids so i offered her some food, she took it and threw it away when she thought i do not see her. Worse, she just threw it on the ground, just like that, not in a trash can. In my opinion, the fact that they are discriminated is the normal and logical reaction. We, as humanity and as a civilization are evolving and growing and almost every culture in the world is growing accordingly but the roma people seem to want to live in medieval conditions. They are not poor, they just want to make us think that. Many adult gypsies like to flash their wealth so everybody can see what car they drive or what a big house they have and the gold they wear around their necks and the big pile of cash they have when going groceries shopping. All this while none of them have a job, nor pay any kind of taxes and all of them apply and get social aid from the state. Do you know why they have many children.....it's because the state gives them social aid for every child they have. They are discriminated because they deserve to be discriminated, they bring no value to the societies that they live in, no contribution of any kind, in fact precious resourcers are wasted on them in the hope they will better themselves but they just take everything and continue with their way of life. They do not want to tend school, they do not want to work, they just want to live their parasitic lives. At least this is how the situation is in Romania, and i am sure there are exceptions within the roma people whom have evolved past all that, but they are just a drop of water in a lake. Well done to those who managed to evolve past that medieval mindset and keep in mind that the main weapon to fight, reduce and eventually eliminate discrimination are all of you.

[@blackwei3299]

ah, man, it seems like you are romanian, i hate when British people think gypsyes are romanians, and also hate gypsyes, in spain is worse, they go in groups and if you are alone they ask you for money and if you refuse them they will steal some of your belongings.

[@riyadougla539]

Best thing for Europe is to just expel them.

[@SOLOMONDAMIANAARON]

The gypsies are just finessing this life😂!

[@robotnik77]

That reminds me of the time, in California, when a homeless man was outside Burger King pleading, "I'm hungry, I'm hungry!", so I bought the man a hamburger and he threw it against the Burger King wall. I surmised that he wanted money for something else, probably cigarettes, cheap wine, or a fix.

[@user-bm6dx9qn6u]

What’s the solution then?

[@sidschukowv6677]

feels like I'm alone in the comments with that, but honestly most of the encounters I had with "gypsy's" have been positive. they were very lively and friendly and funny people. only the living conditions weren't the greatest, i think a little more structure in that could do allot in improving their reputation.

[@lovablevietboy]

I live in Norcross, GA, USA and there's tons of them now pretending to play the violin for money and asking me to buy her a dress at Walmart. Its so bad and they deny being Romani, they say they're Italian or Spanish which is a lie

[@maximayette4231]

They seem to be more integrated in the US. There are about 1 million of them in the US. Most of them are in the west coast. Americans who don't travel to Europe probably never heard about the Romani people (aka the Gypsies)

[@RN1441]

Great video, but you left out the parts where NUMEROUS nations have had programs to integrate their Romani populations, the partial successes and the numerous failures. Before moving to Europe I had nothing but open mindedness towards the Romani. Having lived here for a while, I have little patience left.

[@spirit9871]

Mind sharing your experiences that resulted in having "little patience"? Not criticizing you by the way, I'm genuinely curious as I do not live in Europe, nor have ever even visited the continent before.

[@isabella-zm9qf]

@@spirit9871 I’m curious too like what made you lose patience?

[@marcodessena649]

As an Italian, aware of the problem with them, I must say the same, I hate this sort of propaganda where it's always the bad racist western country to be blamed, no mention for the responsibility of the gypsies. Certainly there is discrimination towards them, which doesn't help, but it is vastly justified. People from outside Europe talk like that because never they had to live near a gypsy camp.

[@Edwinbraun20]

Yes dude… at least you understand now. It’s easy to look from the distance and make judgments based on those media tycoon opinions who live behind the protective walls and never step a foot on regular streets where common man has to go to work and gets he’s stuff stolen. Easy to say for the aristocrats coz in many ways… many of them are a complete parasites too… but in the more classy way, so they don’t annoy us the same way.

[@64impala64impala]

@@marcodessena649 i live in Germany and i can kinda agree. I have met good Romas and bad but when you walk into neighborhoods where a lot of them live, you will immediately know.

[@slanwar]

Well back in Portugal the gypsies had a lot of criminals, I was in service and one of our man was stabbed by a gypsie and ended badly for all of them when 2 trucks of paratroopers came to their camping site and beat the shit of everyone and burned everything. Not talking about when I was a teenager and had to fight a few during my time I lived in an area bordering a “bairro” of gypsies. Today we have then coming from Romania pocket picking in Lisbon, Porto and Algarve. So no good memories from them and so far I don’t see them trying to integrate in our society.

[@Sceptonic]

Average snowflake liberal: "You're just ignorant, racist, entitled, prejudiced, etc"

[@missmcphee8859]

Agreed

[@kaleahcollins4567]

Blacks and Romani have very similar backgrounds and in the states we have small communities of intermixed traditions and culture

[@jevonsygu1]

So do Romani and Black people have to link up? Because I am seeing similarities.

[@acn1813]

Yes! It amazes me how the majority of whites in America understand that black crime is related to poverty and oppression, but whites in Europe blame the race of the Romani people.

[@StickyKeys187]

Roma has been in Europe before America was even a country. Clearly nothing has changed as you can see in this comment section alone.

[@Bakerygo]

The video fails to present the reasons of this discrimination towards gypsies. They are very often associated with crimes and they choose to remain outside the society. For example in Greece, there was a huge wave of immigrants coming from Albania during the 90's. While in the beginning they were met with discrimination eventually they were fully integrated into the Greek society. They went to school, they worked, they opened business etc. Gypsies on the other hand never tried to become part of the society.

[@Seth9809]

And no one notices that lots of other small groups don't want to integrate either?

[@monke6912]

@@Seth9809 yeah but most of them dont accept stealing as norm and wont gang up on you

[@ayapaiz822]

@@monke6912 you appereantly dont know what Albanian mafia is.

[@astralaurora4165]

so Genocide of Romani people is justified because they have problems in their culture? wow

[@monke6912]

@@astralaurora4165 its hard to feel sorry for someone that is dangerus and will hurt you if it benifits them

[@WakaWaka2468]

There are 2 types of people 1.Those who hate Roma 2. Those who have never met Roma

[@jeffreywinkelman8671]

then there's me, part of a family that has been repeatedly harassed by the Roma.

[@johannesisaksson7842]

I have met dozens of Roma in Finland

[@zivkovicable]

i have plenty pf Roma friends, & i do business with Roma people on a daily basis. Treat people with respect & you get it back. Maybe they would treat you badly, but you are a racist so you deserve it.

[@johannesisaksson7842]

@@zivkovicable true

[@baronmemez]

I'm 2

[@Kid0night]

Thank you for bringing light to this

[@reinokarvinen8845]

the first romani in sweden were welkomed as the lost tribe of egypt few hundred years ago. but the attitude hardened within a year. later they were sent to the furthest corner of the kingdom north karelia. how they survived there i do not know but they did

[@mh3225]

Its beyond economic factors, its what they do. When I was an Intern at a police department we had roma gangs coming directly from europe to where we were specifically to steal things from department stores. How that makes sense monetarily, the price for tickets, housing, cost of living since they cant work on those visas etc to steal earbuds and android tablets was beyond me. When we asked one of them why they were willing to travel all this way to steal $200 worth of stuff she said "this is what I do". Then when I started traveling every country I went to it was a roma running a scam. soliciting donations for fake charities, money exchange scams, ticket scams, every scam you can think of ran by them, in every city. Does every roma steal? no, but an unbelievably large amount of them do.

[@electricuniverse5186]

Well Einstein, this is what is called 'systemic racism'. When you do not allow equal opportunities to a group of people over generations, they have 2 options. Either make it work somehow or die starving.

[@jonpaul3868]

Stereo type does come from something. We can find the scamming culture in India up to these days.

[@electricuniverse5186]

​@@jonpaul3868 Since you know a lot about stereotyping, please explain why Germans are stereotyped as aggressive?

[@aesyamazeli8804]

@@electricuniverse5186 because they are. Or at least in the eyes and ears of the English people. Because you speak English, your stereotype comes from the perception of the English people staring off the Germans that always try to take over Europe.

[@munafiqwill3932]

@@electricuniverse5186 Ww2. Language is intimidating.

[@s4mur41RPG]

I’m a white dude and I had a great conversation with an old Pakistani Muslim man in a burger shop about a couple romani thief’s, it brought us together

[@Startrance666]

Probably most Romani is thives here in Sweden we need to check the store all the time during summer when romani people moving around Sweden to steal.

[@IndianCurrycel]

Up here in Canada Romani women wear hijabs to pretend to be Muslim women.

[@mariabop]

Why would they do that? To give a bad reputation for hijabi women?

[@IndianCurrycel]

@@mariabop I have no idea

[@ReapTheWhirlwind]

When I was younger I met a Romani guy while playing Magic the Gathering. He was a really quiet guy but eventually he started talking about his past. About how he'd lived in Hungary from birth to 17 and yet was not a Hungarian citizen. About how many of his family members had been killed just for existing. About how grateful he felt about becoming an American citizen after his military service. 😥 Imagine being a stateless person who has been treated like a sub-human your whole life. He was "lucky" because he was able to leave but Romani people shouldn't have to leave their home countries to be treated like human beings. People always suggest leaving but that is not a viable solution for most Romani people. It costs money to pull up roots to start over and the bigger price is being torn from an existing support system. I saw a comment here saying that Romani people should return to India and just...no. They left over 1,500 years ago and have no link other than genetics and vague linguistic clues to India. Pushing minorities out is what morally weak societies like to do because it's less internal labor than acknowledging past wrongs and moving forward with new information and a dedication to anti-racism.

[@laci272]

I don't buy that. THIS APPLIES TO A MINORITY OF ROMANI ONLY, but for a very visible minority: I'm from Romania myself, with a lot more gypsies. If they want to be a citizen, they can. Many don't have any papers because their parents don't want to make them. Their children are better used for begging. And I do discriminate them because from my life experience, they are the only group who bully you (rob you, cheat you, beat you) and brag about being gypsies so you don't call the police for the retaliation that's coming your way. I have a friend who's a mayor in a 90% village of gypsies. They have no agriculture. What they do is 50% of them go to Western Europe (mainly France) to beg, then they get expelled and given 10.000 euro to come back. They build GIANT houses with no electricity or water, then go back to France. It's very hard to like them when you're living with to them. That being said, I did have a roma client that I didn't know he was one, until he showed me his wedding photos. So the roma who want to blend it, do it. Those who want to cheat you, make sure you know they're gypsies cause even most of the police if afraid of them.

[@laci272]

Forgot to mention that they have big organized crime circles (again - the premise being that they're gypsies and the police don't touch them). There is one mafia boss who built is house as a replica of the court room he's been repeatedly sentences (or not). They also get more than the minimum wage from the state just because of their ethnicity so most of them don't work because if this. Again. THERE ARE NICE ROMA PEOPLE. BUT they know not to brag about it. Look it up.

[@rationalmkr1467]

@@laci272 no you are wrong, don't judge them , they have no agricultural land , they have no property , you want them to be like after snatching everything that belongs to him , so sad

[@MrKrtek00]

Sorry, but there is something wrong with your story. Romanis were always Hungarian citizens, even the ones who run to Hungary after Trianon, even the ones who were deported from neighboring countries to Hungary after WWII. I am not sure that Hungary has jus soli, but thousands of Hungarian-speaking Romani immigrated to Hungary eg from Romania 30 years ago, and they got citizenship through an expedited process, too. Also from a historical point of view, during Socialism, you definitely couldn't stay in the country without citizenship. (I am a Hungarian).

[@qjtvaddict]

Their original country is India

[@christophersims3319]

I travel quite a bit and it’s very unfortunate. The only Roma people I’ve met were either trying to rob me or scam me. I was forced to defend myself on two occasions. I caught a ten year old girl picking my pocket in Naples. I gave her all the cash I had on me, it made me So profoundly sad, I am in the corner of every downtrodden people, and I hate the racism, they face. And I’m in favor of what ever it takes to get any group out of poverty but you have to meet mainstream society half way.

[@GeorgeSupremu]

Why did you gave her cash? You just encouraged her to try it with other tourists.

[@sk8forlife782]

thank you for understanding that their situation is what causes bad behavior, not their race. If everyone had that point of view so many issues related to racism could be solved

[@CA-wd9zw]

@@sk8forlife782 it’s their f-ing culture that causes it…

[@jessicamarie8299]

@@sk8forlife782 lmao bye they not victims they like to rob people so i don’t feel bad for them

[@mikebison9882]

Its not their race its their culture

[@juannaym8488]

I am Romani and I will admit without issue that we have massive issues in our values and culture that leads towards crime and just being generally bad actors in society I do not know why, but my family was very, very far removed from the old value system and it's for the better. We should preserve the good parts of our culture and realie that we need to be decent members of society if we want to be accepted

[@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly]

Just send them to India problem solved…only question is would the Indian government want them?

[@andrejbrlek2034]

I went to school with some Romani and it wasn't pleasant to say the least. Most of them didn't really care about hygiene or education, but the biggest problem was their aggression towards us. The boys would constantly mock, tease and assault us whether it was verbally or physicaly. I have a younger sister and I'm concerned about hor going to school with such kids which is, I think, understandable. I don't want to say that they are mostly bad people, there are regions where they are polite, clean and well educated, but those who aren't should become somehow. The thing I also want to point out is that they have a bit more rights than the natives since they are considered a minority and most government bodies won't even interact with them so they have the freedom to cause harm to society. I'm not a specialist nor a professional in the field of social engineering but I think that they should be socialized a bit and introduced to our coulture since I believe that there is a clash between their culture and ours. Don't take the comment as hateful or negative, it's just reality, but I'm always open for debate.

[@nauticalnovice9244]

That's very typical of them

[@andrejbrlek2034]

@@riyadougla539 they are almost in every single country around the globe, so where would you realistically expel them? That would just cause more harm to other nations. Maybe the solution to this problem is to put in more time and effort into them so that they become working members of society like everyone else.

[@nauticalnovice9244]

@@andrejbrlek2034 that has been tried many times and it didn't work. A lot of them or maybe even most of them refuse to work even when they have the opportunity.

[@WatcherOfYoutube]

@@riyadougla539 That'll just make those countries worse. Expel them to the US.

[@mjk6949]

@@riyadougla539 nah keep them there dont bring them here

[@piroskaracz3621]

I am Romani/Roma. One historical thing people may find interesting is that centuries ago when Roma people and tribes started arriving in Europe the Europeans mistook them as Egyptians due to the physical apearance...thus coining the word Gypsy in all it's forms.... depending on the language...Gitanos...Zingari...Cigani...Tzigani...Gitanes...etc. They were wrong then and are wrong now. Names of our many different tribes original names go back to India...Roma....Sinti...Domari...Lom.....Zargari just to name a few.

[@alessandroturchiarelli7419]

In english they say roma but isn't Rom the real name? this is what they told me

[@piroskaracz3621]

@@alessandroturchiarelli7419 Rom is singular...Roma is plural....Romani is both noun and adjective to describe something

[@alessandroturchiarelli7419]

@@piroskaracz3621 wow nice very interesting i only knew about rom, bc in rome(im italian) we dont say roma people bc it is very confusing so the romans are the people of rome and the rom are the romani

[@piroskaracz3621]

@@alessandroturchiarelli7419 yes I can see how it's confusing

[@marceloorellana5726]

@@alessandroturchiarelli7419 It's Dohm.

[@EvanS_-]

Every gypsy I’ve ever met in my life has asked me for money

[@bovv07]

most of us get denied for jobs.

[@standupstraight9691]

I worked with someone once from Romania. She hated gypsies because they were vagrants who would steal from you if you didn't keep an eye on them.

[@Ikajo]

In Sweden, we've had huge issues with Romani coming here specifically to beg for money. Usually during winter when the weather is harsh. One issue is them leaving behind a lot of trash and sometimes even destruction. They don't deserve discrimination, but the issue isn't black and white...

[@cemo3292]

@@Ikajo Sweden is already fallen men you are losing your country slowly

[@zenokarlsbach4292]

It is about time something else takes over.

[@xc6013]

@@Ikajo they used to beg like that in romania, we just stopped giving them any money and in rural areas we offer them opportunities to work. Few stayed to work, most went to foreign countries to take advantage of people's kindness

[@xc6013]

we also hate them for giving us a bad image in foreign countries. In most places we do not have good opportunities, we go to foreign countries and we work hard. It's so hurtful to be confused with them when we do our best to integrate and work hard

[@pazuzuxx]

Most of the people who I catch stealing from my business are Romani. They told me that they believe theft is ok. I almost lost my business because of them!

[@nvizible]

Wow so you're telling me theft is more frequent in poorer populations, wow give this man a nobel prize for this breakthrough.

[@pazuzuxx]

@@nvizible ha! You must be a thief since you're protecting them. I hope something very expensive gets stolen from you so you understand the severity of this

[@TankEngine75]

ewww generalization (i do agree theft is bad but you did nlt need to generalize)

[@sikobaya9298]

Based on the comments here, they seem to deserve the hate.

[@bovv07]

the comments are pure racism, i’ve never stolen in my life, i’ve never destroyed anything, i’ve never did any wrong to people, theres bad and good in every ethnic, some of my people do good, and sadly some do bad, being racist isn’t okay, its still wrong, and u can’t justify it.

[@MaxOrthodox]

They deserve it they stole and killed people I knew They live off of society and steal from people

[@bovv07]

@@MaxOrthodoxwhy r u trying to justify racism, i dont have a criminal record and i dont want one, i always try do good not bad, and most of us do good, every ethnic does good and bad. ur racism isn’t justified.

[@mildlycurious8333]

@@bovv07 ok roma

[@benedekhalda-kiss9737]

Sadly it's the truth that Roma people get hated on because of the wrongdoings of many other Roma people. I am very happy that there are a lot of exceptions but still living in somewhat balkan areas the amount of crime roma people have commited is insane. I am all for them practicing their own culture,speaking their own language (I am not a nationalist after all) but it'd be a huge help if they stayed away from crime. You are an excellent example to all your people,pursue your dreams! @@bovv07

[@Whoo711]

the likelihood that the Roma are THE ONE PEOPLE who are "Truly deserving" of being labeled as "mostly bad people" seems so unlikely as to not even be worth consideration

[@s.m.rstoremusicrecords2019]

I think in our society a person that behaves normal and integrates itself in the society has no problem. The problem I personally have is with the ones that are doing the opposite and live in a parallel society that does not respect our rules.

[@jvry8c]

I meet a guy who was in the Spanish military a few years ago. He compared them to locusts and felt Europe would be better off if they were wiped out. He said in Spain that a majority of their criminals were gypsies. I had thought they were a myth before talking to this guy at length. He was actually my calculus tutor before you call him a dumb racist (might have been the latter). My fiancee who works at a major theme park in florida has noted that gypses or "Roma" will frequently come in and use their children to help steal things and will make everyone's lives miserable around them. Unpopular views and experiences...

[@kelseyks4230]

Sincerly I don't think Spain has their roma so bad ,they are way more integrated than balkan roma

[@richardboswell9306]

Yes he was a racist and worst kind

[@jackbryan2947]

@@kelseyks4230 has the Roma so talking like we're a disease

[@fooooooooooooooo]

They're basically black people of Europe. No wonder AJ+ would tell you they're backwards because of white supremacy. Some demographics are not as good as others.

[@ajdegemma4409]

@@kelseyks4230 don't touch our Cigans...Balkans are Balkans no matter the race, religion or language. Yasha!

[@michaelcummins7397]

An honest discussion also involves the criminality of a visible segment of the Roma people. It’s very easy to sympathise with the history of persecution and to understand it’s lingering effects, but to deny the issue of cultural criminality is disingenuous. The women presenting are respected because they are not criminals. If the Roma people who have managed to assimilate and succeed can themselves police and educate their own communities for betterment there would be drastic changes for the Roma people as a whole. Until then, these people are making choices in how they wish to proceed because there is and has been ample resources and money spent to help them.

[@thenationofdefecation7969]

Structural inequalities is what leads to crime