Truth about “Gypsy slums”

[@florida.florian]

And this happens all over Europe, historic Roma neighborhoods near the city center are forcefully demolished without consent of inhabitants and the Roma are forced into segregated ghettoes on the outskirts of society that don’t even have access to basic city services, all because non-Roma didn’t want to see Roma living next to them, and then they get mad that the ghettoes look bad, like how do you expect them to look? Of course unemployment is high when you deny people work based on their race and living conditions, this is what traps Roma into this cycle and most Europeans just chalk it up to “they don’t want to work”

[@CierraJohnson-bh4mc]

Oppressors never want to admit that the oppressed are indeed oppressed. They just would rather have you believe that the oppressed chose to be that way, and that they have the same rights as the majority but purposely neglect it because the oppressed are just irresponsible, awful and bad people. They set the oppressed up for failure and suffering deliberately than try to convince the world that the oppressed just refuse to be good citizens, they know that they are responsible. This is cognitive dissonance and gaslighting on the oppressors part.

[@Zivanovaable]

That blocks had water and electricity and canalisation included but when they moved that folk inside they didn't care to teach them how to use it properly (they had no that commodities in their village) so that stuff got amortized by the new inhabitants bc lack of knowledge to use. That was a wrong move from the government that they wanted them to integrate by force but they didn't give enough attention to the process itself.

[@robyn2124]

Thank you for bringing awareness to this huge problem, I wouldn’t have had a clue without you.

[@juliusraben3526]

Whats your source on them living self sustainable ?

[@Tatokala]

But in case of lunik IX a mixed population was intentioned first, and then not realized, I heard?

[@pleurnicheuse1443]

,,Do you think people want to live like this?" I almost cried, it's infuriating how baselessly we judge marginalized communities. We are so unaware especially of romani people and the injustice they face. This channel is really great, i'm learning a lot. People need this information to be spread.

[@user-ib9tw4yf7d]

Dear it's not judgement. It's ferociously racism.. it's planned way to marginalized someone on basis of just race...

[@acutechicken5798]

Yup. Society puts marginalized people of all sorts: be it because of race, religion, skin color, language, ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, ability, and so on. Then society blames marginalized people for the consequences that happened because they were marginalized. I suppose it makes them less uncomfortable since they don't have to take responsibility when they do that.

[@KTPUnion]

Yes they want to live like this.. ín my city they were integrated to clean houses for low prices after a short time they destroyed everything around them... Do not try to defend this life style... Everyone has a chance to live a normal life. But they dont want to work they dont want to pay taxes just use drugs..

[@coffeeh03666]

I feel the same when yt americans talk about Native reservations. They mock how we live in moblie homes, no electricity or running water, no paved roads only dirt roads. But Navajos used to be rich in livestock, we knew about the seasons and moved to "summer" and "winter" homes. But since the U.S gov wanted land, we were foreced on "The Long Walk" then after onto reservations. If you're a colonizer decendent, DO YOUR OWN HISTORY RESEARCH. Public education and gov policies do not care and will always lie in order to be the "winner" U.S gov has broke every treaty they made.

[@limpcheesestick]

American governors are trying to erase real historic facts from the curriculum because the younger generations are starting to acknowledge racism

[@pseudonymous9153]

Everyone knows what reservations are and how they came to be; but why do you keep living in a place you never wanted to live in? If you don't have clean water then *move to a place that does have clean water*. All your problems would be solved if you just lived somewhere other than the middle of nowhere while still expecting the same amenities as metropolises. Including your claimed original land! No one's forcing you to live in a shithole you hate anymore.

[@johnnyearp52]

Most people want to live wit h their families. If you care a lot for them it is not easy to leave. It can be harder for Natives to get work. There is prejudice against them as well.

[@stopmotionharry8989]

Same in Australia. People say the Aboriginal people were nothing before white colonisation, but they have a rich history spanning 60,000 years

[@alz3712]

@@pseudonymous9153are you gonna pay?? Then shush

[@theboujieproletariat]

I have seen some Roma villages in Romania and they are amazing, fancy and super clean. The problem is, when Romani people did get to keep living in their villages, they make them beautiful and then everyone is jealous and says the money must have come from claiming benefits abroad or stealing. They cant just exist.

[@ebmbree1171]

I’m Slovak and it’s really upsetting to see this happen in my country. No one, regardless of race, should be forced to live like this. I’ve met Romani people and they were nothing but kind and welcoming. I hope they stay strong and things improve❤

[@rebeccagutierrez8170]

​@Saperwill Seems you're part of the problem then.

[@Saperwill]

everbody is the problem besides the gypsies @@rebeccagutierrez8170

[@NhatMaisq1wg]

@@SaperwillYou are Slovak and you are deranged.

[@1996Shpr]

All European people are the epitome of double standards.

[@Pokemon32961]

@@Saperwillyou’re blind to human cruelty.

[@qaphqa]

Dehumanising people is terrifying.

[@hapmon8114]

Thank you for this!!! It's so important! People need to understand that no one, NO ONE, actually wants to live like this. It's not a choice, It's never a choice and if people think it is then they are racist.

[@peterevans6480]

slay sis

[@hapmon8114]

@@peterevans6480 a bbc ghosts fan???!!

[@peterevans6480]

@@hapmon8114 its me, Alex, your sibling

[@acutechicken5798]

It's like punching someone in the face over and over again and then blaming the person for having a swollen face. (They didn't put ice on the injury.) Utterly ridiculous.

[@zenworld3731]

Thank you! I am so proud of you, Florian, for having your historical facts straight. As a Romni female, I rolled my eyes the beginning the guy made it seem as if they chose this lifestyle.

[@joey5594]

💯👍 they didn't have a choice they were hated since forever I don't know why we were hated but god knows and sees all so I pray for all gipsies all over the world for god to bless them aboundantly and give them wealth health happiness and joy in Jesus name amen 🙏

[@andreimircea2254]

The last bit about sterilisation just turned my insides upside down. How disgusting, and I can’t believe it still happens in this day and age, especially in Europe.

[@chanterelle483]

It ended around the year 2000. I know because that was my country, Czechia. These days, there are reparations being payed, but it's not like that can really make up for it. It's still a f**king shame and I'm so sorry.

[@C-SD]

Happened in the US. WoC were the primary victims, but they did it with mental health patients, and a few other groups as well. Idk when or if it truly stopped.

[@Vizivirag]

Yes, and it's infuriating. You can't get your tubes tied if you want, you need a lengthy process - if you're white. But even today, if Romani women have complications with childbirth, they are often sterilized in the process, even if it's absolutely not needed. Straight up crimes against humanity.

[@Teajay21]

​@C-SD It hasn't ended, there are still women particularly indigenous women that are being pressured into sterilization and there are reports of it happening to immigrant women on the border

[@courtneywitherspoon8584]

As a Black American this is right out of the racists playbook. Ugh the victims are always blamed.😢

[@tomaccino]

And to this day many Europeans will still point and laugh at American racism while being completely oblivious of our own racism at home.

[@CierraJohnson-bh4mc]

@@tomaccino Unfortunately non americans love shitting on americans while covering up their own similar issues. It's hypocrisy, guess they need to shift the blame rather than take accountability.

[@ok-vk9fv]

Why is africa so underdeveloped? Also whites' fault?

[@anonanon1302]

it's absolutely terrible that people have to endure such hatred and violence

[@miticaBEP07]

I heard a lot of the rumors on that neighborhood are exaggerations or downright fabrications, and the people in there are organizing to be recognized basic rights and decent living.

[@becca1189]

Thank you!!! I was wondering about this, was searching the comments to see if someone had mentioned anyone organizing or working with an organization that already exists.

[@lazinessincarnate9442]

Similar to the treatment of African-Americans in the US

[@Srsrsrst]

And indigenous

[@user-ib9tw4yf7d]

Yes.... this is European hypocrisy or mockery of human rights... #Tight slap

[@fiorinamartucci]

African Americans live like this? Are we sure?

[@socialdistancewarrior9099]

An African-American was president and one is currently vice president. There are African-American billionaires.

[@outdoorscholar6016]

@@socialdistancewarrior9099and yet the Hoods still exist

[@UnderworldDoctorNatasha]

Poverty is the legacy of oppression. I'm black and live in LA and it pains me how stubbornly people cling to the idea that certain places that are occupied predominately by marginalized groups are barbaric wastelands due to the people living there.

[@kcurran9913]

Wow, Florian really does be out here exposing everyone.

[@NhatMaisq1wg]

He is just bringing awareness to the dehumanization of his people.

[@ashton1952]

​@@NhatMaisq1wgyes, the world needs to know about this. Can't believe this is happening on the wealthiest continent in the world. Makes me angry, this needs to change

[@Dorothy241]

I’m Slovak and grew up in the town not far from Lunik IX., slum in this video… people were always complaining about how Roma people live and making it entirely their fault, saying that they are not working etc…it was strange that nobody cared to ask WHY … I have found just one young history teacher on KZbin that said exactly the same thing as Florian… about forcing Roma people to move there😮😢… only then it started to make sense to me😮

[@dhoffman4955]

Thank you for making us aware of this problem. When I hear of such problems, I ask myself what can I do to help while being respectful. I’m open to suggestions.

[@rogersilva9479]

As an Indian, I feel helpless that so much suffering you guys have to go through 😢

[@prashantsurti2029]

Toh phir Bhai caste atrocities k bare mein awaj uthao

[@1996Shpr]

​@@prashantsurti2029kaun se cast ke logo ka forcefully Ghar Tod ke shahar ke bahar kachare ke dher par chhoda jata hai government se dwara

[@rogersilva9479]

@@prashantsurti2029 Tum Uniform civil code ke liye awaz uthao . I don’t even know what is my caste

[@prashantsurti2029]

@@1996Shpr every week Dalits are killed just for keeping a mustache or dressing nicely. Plus the caste profiling. There are laws that puts certain castes under suspicion as soon as they are born. There's more

[@johnnyearp52]

​@@1996Shpr But they have acid thrown in their face if they get too rich.

[@C-SD]

It boils my blood that people want to blame people for being in these situations. Yeah, the privilege of free housing, that you didn't want because you had a place to live before they demo'ed it and left you with nothing.

[@priyab5838]

This is really heartbreaking! How long will the government make the Roma people suffer? 😮

[@carterdunlap9957]

This is very miserable and I hope things get better for the Romani as time goes on!

[@mmps18]

I was thinking recently, what happened to all the small Roma villages in Eastern Europe where it was a self-sustaining little community. This seems to often happen to marginalized people where people are living their lives peacefully but then are forced out of their areas and then packed into places with little infrastructure and poorly built buildings. Prayers and love to the Roma people... I hope one day you'll share any reputable nonprofits to help Roma in the U.S. and elsewhere. Thank you Florian!

[@Biracialbaddie]

Thank you for being so educational and informative about Romani people 🙏🏽

[@oraclesofthemoirai4258]

Your AA peeps understand this. I’m sure other marginalized groups do as well. Marginalized groups are forced into this and beaten down physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and financially and people will have the audacity to say “well why can’t they help themselves?” “ I know this one *insert token minority person* who’s apart of your group and they got out.” For alot of ppl it seems experience is their only teacher

[@K1ryy.Ac3]

As someone who’s from the Czech Republic,a nation where Romani people get discriminated a lot,it’s really upsetting to see how our government treats our fellow Romani citizens,it’s also really common to be openly racist against Romani people,where I live and it’s honestly sad to see how even my relatives talk about Romani people as nothing but criminals that live in ghettos,which isn’t always true and when it is,it’s just the result of our government not caring about their citizens,it’s upsetting to see people admit that our government doesn’t care about us,but deny that they also don’t care about Romani citizens,our government sucks and treats us all badly,Romani people are not "privileged" for getting to live in literal falling apart ghettos

[@LaceyLianna]

I'm sorry to hear this I hope that we can fix the situation with Roma people

[@Cecilpedia]

Every time I hear Europeans talking about how non-racist they are, I always feel tempted to ask them their thoughts on Romani people

[@NhatMaisq1wg]

Europeans are beyond racist. They also erase Roma history.

[@Nyla_]

I wonder why Europeans say that there's no racism there. I'm from Europe and racism and discrimination is a big issue. There already studies, media and authorities who discuss this. Only ones I know who say Europe isn't racist, aren't European racists themselves. But the far right movement is on the rise worldwide. Not only Europe. But I live on the 3rd continent now and can tell you that racism and discrimination a huge issue anywhere I went. Sometimes it comes with different faces. EU countries still have a long way to go go, but in certain countries they discuss it at least and trying to build fundaments to become better. How they talk about Roma in Europe, I hear the same lies and hate when it comes to Rohyinga in SEA. I don't get all this hate. But we should be aware as the bigger challenge with the right movement is just ahead

[@-Ainsworth-]

Except most eastern european people did have bad experiences with them, it's not as simple as labeling someone as racist. It's a daily occurrence to see a drunk gypsy assault someone on a train, they have a famous way of asking for cigarettes and if you deny or say that you don't smoke get beaten in the best case. I grew up with gypsie classmates who were regularly caught stealing alcohol from supermarkets and getting the police called on them with no reason other than wanting alcohol at the age of 12-3. They did not live in poverty, had a really nice house stuff like a playstation and a huge flatscreen tv, truth be told they lived better than most eastern europeans.

[@adrianrox2001]

​@@-Ainsworth- Roma*

[@dune3001]

We have a neighborhood like this in Bucharest too and it is so sad... literally the city services don't bother with basic stuff, so most of the place looks awful. Some NGOs try to help, but they can only do so much...

[@NhatMaisq1wg]

Also a lot of Roma in Romania are segregated in the villages where their ancestors were formerly slaves.

[@dyawr]

​@@NhatMaisq1wg I've never heard of forced segregation in present-day Romania. Most Roma live among the rest of the population, evem though they still form their own communities.

[@dyawr]

Are you talking about Ferentari?

[@dune3001]

@@dyawr yes...well, some parts of it at least.

[@tommoran6606]

I recently found out my mother's biological father was a Romani (I probably used that wrong, sorry I'm still learning) Medical doctor. My mom's bio mother was in the hospital for epilepsy that was killing her but he loved her anyway. He unfortunately passed away before I found him so I wasn't able to ask him anything about where our people came from so thank you so much for teaching me. It means the world to me. Also cool story my mother named my sister Kali before we even knew about our history. Now my sister feels proud of the name, she used to feel like she was stealing the name or not worthy of it but she's much happier now.

[@NoRiceToEat]

They do the same with India. They don’t see the continuous breakdown of culture and civilisation that invasions and colonialism did to the country and got one of the richest land into a posted child for poverty and now they complain about slums in India when the only slum is in mumbai but they like to portray the entire country like that. It’s really very painful and traumatising for people like Indians and Roma to experience such ridicule for the situations that they were forced into and had little control over!

[@miticaBEP07]

I also heard Pope Francis visited Lunik IX, as well as other minor religious folks, which I read about as a positive thing but (as much as I know many Romani people are Catholic or at least Christians) I don't often trust sources like this.

[@chanterelle483]

Yes, I remember that.

[@iris6815]

I lived in south Spain for years and my neighbors were Romani. Very sweet family with the cutest child ever. They kept to themselves for month before opening a little and letting the kid play with my friend's son. One day on a play date, the kid just mention that maybe they will have to move out because of his parents could not find work. I didn't think much about it at the time but now I know how much they were discriminated against. The father found a job later and they kept their house but boy it's frustating.

[@ImpressDivinity]

The same thing about projects and ghettos in america. They dont talk about the middle class cities, towns, and businesses that they burned down...etc and then discriminated in education and work after.

[@johnnyearp52]

Yes, building wealth was punished.

[@ninibugg6203]

As a Black American, I believe this

[@BebbaDubbs]

For my US peers: This also happened in Bulgaria and a lot of the "socialist" countries. It's truly disturbing how many non-Roma felt these slums were better because they had foundations...

[@prashantsurti2029]

Similar experience as Dalit in India

[@someone39397]

It's so sad to see that people live and die in such appaling conditions just because of who they are. ❤❤

[@ErutaniaRose]

It's wild how many people never ask "WHY". Like...that is always my first question--and is what got me in constant trouble throughout schooling.

[@sarahpekarcikova722]

Im am from Slovakia. Romany people have been discriminated throughout history anywhere in Europe. So the problem of their segregation didn't start only with creation of these slums. It was way earlier almost the midle ages when these people have started facing segregation and racism.

[@davis0730]

I've learned through these shorts that Romani and Black folks in the states have a lot in common/ thanks for teaching me

[@laurabrown2982]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@baby.nay.]

Same thing happened in America . Just a few decades ago, black people (or anyone not white in some cases) couldn’t buy homes or land in certain areas/ parts of certain cities . Even when it was banned , of course the neighborhoods stayed mostly segregated because of racism. If you know where everyone is, makes it easy to pump drugs into a community and place all dangers there .

[@katzenbekloppt_mf]

Yes, but what you maybe don't know: in Berlin/Germany (and I am sure also in other cities) real estate speculaters gave Roma workers from eastern europe who are poor and don't have chance to get a good apartment run down flats in their houses by renting the flats with about three rooms to 15 people to "expell" old tenants. Then they cut off the electricity, no trash gets picked up, etc. Their idea is to sell the empty house then which is much easier then one with tenants who fight for their apartments. And guess what, a conservstive newspaper called me as a social worker for homeless people to ask what I think poor german tenants should do if their landlord puts in Roma to empty the house "because they will run it down". I told him :"They should go with their Roma neighbours to the tenants rights organisation and solidare. The enemy is the landlord!" What on hell is wrong with people😪

[@gabrielbernard5440]

This, had it happen with the landlord before my last one. Wanted to turn the house into a bed and breakfast for tourists and despite the east european people being clean and quiet, he started harrassing them to get them out. Only heard about it from a friend who still lived there. But it was basically the other way round before, because the house needed lots of work done and he rented to them because they also worked on the house for lower rent, and once they were no longer needed it all went downhill. Then he blamed them for everything that was not up to date and put them under pressure.

[@katzenbekloppt_mf]

@@gabrielbernard5440 that's also a bad way...but to use people like something as cockroaches or rats to scare other people away is something so humiliating that I was wanting to beat this person up. How could you and was this make to people to be treated this way!

[@nonny9453]

People who live in such places are often criticized for their living conditions but nobody talks about how certain injustice they suffer got them there.

[@Srsrsrst]

The parallels are insane!

[@ciarannihill]

Systemically enforced poverty, neglect, and deprivement causes desperation, but then the people who created and/or enforce the system point to that depseration and the results of it as a justification for the system that created it. Sadly common for marginalized communities the world over.

[@Qu33nMary444]

I love your channel so much! ❤️ Keep fighting ignorance with education, you're doing a wonderful thing here 👏👏👏

[@LGrian]

Absolutely horrifying and unacceptable that most people never even here about the abuses faced by Romani communities. Thank you for educating the public of every nation. I hope public awareness will affect change soon

[@m.jackson6802]

Another point for similarities between how Roma in Europe and Black people in the US are treated....

[@aggylyf]

It’s also so upsetting that I live in Norway and have heard nothing about these struggles…

[@IsaidImlistening]

The word ghetto was invented for the areas European Jews were allowed to live in, and had to return to every night by a curfew, for centuries. The parallels are astonishing. The pointless hatred and stereotyping, the cruelty, the open bigotry. Punishment for success. In the US, there are so many groups who are treated this way -- it's much shorter to list the ones who aren't. It's all vile and always has been. What's sad is how many people who don't believe other forms of racism but are totally willing to buy the canards about the Romani peoples.

[@Just_Deven]

Racism is racism. How did people justify this? They literally are humans like you and me. The fact that this ever happened is absurd.

[@namtellectjoonal7230]

so they basically forced a group of people to live in a slum and then turned around and judged those people .... for living in a slum ... wtf

[@nelzzz89]

There is a neighborhood like this in Valencia, Spain, called Las Casitas Rosas (the Pink Houses). It’s known as the most dangerous neighborhood in the city. I’ve noticed that while the rest of Valencia is very clean (not because there is no littering, but because of almost daily street cleaning services) this doesn’t happen (or at least not much) in this neighbourhood 😢 And then we think they’re dirty and don’t care about their environment. When in reality, my street (in a “good” part of town) would look like this or even much worse, without the city doing its daily cleaning. 😮

[@anufoalan]

And if you think this is isolated to the Roma in Europe it is not, it is the exact same way Indigenous people are treated in North America

[@ashton1952]

💔 Things need to change, it is shocking, the people in their own country treated worse than foreigners. Spread awareness, the world needs to know.

[@IHEARTCOQUETTECLOTHES.777]

Thank you for the full truth :) very informative

[@robotguard614]

I have never seen anything like that. My village is is mixed Greek and Romani (but primarely Romani) and thankfully the situation is not that bad

[@shawn-oldaccountl6748]

I see stuff like this all the time in Canada regarding Indigenous reserves, it’s deplorable, and the media almost always makes it seem like the people want to live this way, that they chose this, that it’s their fault, etc.

[@Graves933]

I see a lot of similaritieshere in Canada. Indigenous reservations lack the necessary recourses like running clean water. I hear so many people talk horribly about Indigenous people and their reservations being "dirty" or them being "addicts" but no one talking shit ever talks about how that perceived image got that way in the first place. How their children were ripped away and forced into residential schools, how they saw their friends and family perish and be thrown away like garbage into mass graves, how they were physically, emotionally, mentally, and sexually abused in those schools by the priests and nuns, how they were stripped of their culture and beat for daring to speak in their language. The ones that survived were so traumatized a lot turned to substances just to deal with all the shit they dealt with. Then, when they had kids they unconsciously passed that trauma down and left in a cycle of harm. They aren't "dirty" or "addicts" they are human beings trying to live the best they can in a world that gave them a shitty hand. Instead of being a racist piece of shit talking about HOW they live, why don't you try to HELP? Go volunteer, go do research to see how you can help and how this happened in the first place. The fact that it's so common for people to just bulldoze another person's life for their own well being is fucking sickening.

[@quokka_yt]

I'm Bulgarian and I pray for our Romani brothers over here. They're very discriminated here too.

[@blackfox9482]

Thank you for this video

[@amyvivianjane]

Thank you for the context. I heard that some ghetto-like area in some Balkan town was demolished in the 1970s to 1980s. Though I am not sure if that was related to the story you mentioned here, I believe there are things happening during the modernization. Even in the USA, there was a housing project called Pruitt-Igoe, which was designed by a well-known architect. It turned into a very bad shape within 20 years. The difference was that the government knew when to start over a failed project.

[@v4603]

I’ve spent a lot of time in Slovakia and was truly shocked when I first saw these neighbourhoods. I’d never seen poverty like it. Even when living within small towns, Roma often are segregated, all living together in one huge building. I do have a lot of friends who are both Slovak and Roma, who also lived in more normal conditions, but it’s definitely a widespread and horrific problem which undermines the human rights of so many right here in Europe.

[@user-ib9tw4yf7d]

There are tears in my eyes .... n rage for such inhuman moves.... in all its not just politicians are accountable but these countries' people also.... is it not Satan or evil.... Hey God just prevail more compassion n love in people's heart

[@aggylyf]

I just comment every time I see your videos, because this is too important! ❤️❤️❤️

[@EGGrun]

This is such a complex issue, the cycle of poverty, alcohol/drug abuse, premature sexualization, poor education,...it's absolutely terrible that people, especially young children are living like that. You often see kids as young as 10 begging for money and cigarettes, with terribly neglected teeth, hygiene, no shoes. And yet Romani are often portrayed as "the problem", even when they did not choose this.

[@mahipaul3358]

💔😢my heart goes to romani people 💌from india 🇮🇳

[@SA-xt1gd]

And I thought Yemen was worse. Yemen is very tribal oriented. They tend to focus on privileges of tribal communities and ancestry while those don’t fall under the tribal communities such as the non ethnic nomads are more vulnerable to living crisis.

[@viktoriaonderkova6475]

Ten years ago, when I was a 14 year old teen, a group of Czech and Slovak gamer KZbinrs hired a big wedding limousine and went to Luník 9 "to go sightseeing". I know about this because I was among the last few kids at the KZbinr meetup, waiting for my parents to come pick me up. I was even invited to participate in this, which I refused. After they returned about 40 minutes later, I remember a certain still very popular Slovak KZbinr exiting the limousine, tightly clutching onto his expensive camera, saying how scared for his life he was, laughing at the situation. Then he proceeded to show me pictures and videos he took from inside the limousine. At the time, I thought it was weird and unnecessary. Now, as an adult, I see how racist and bashing this was, absolutely disgusting. I would've almost forgotten this even if it weren't for your video.

[@Symb101c]

I didn’t even know where Roma was located on the map before I started watching your content (still ashamed about being so uneducated) thanks for helping so many people learn about Romanian culture!

[@CierraJohnson-bh4mc]

Romani culture you mean. The Romanian are different

[@johnnyearp52]

​@@CierraJohnson-bh4mcRomani don't have a country.

[@CierraJohnson-bh4mc]

@@johnnyearp52 Never said they did but they aren't the same as the Romanian.

[@johnnyearp52]

@@CierraJohnson-bh4mc Sorry, I meant to say that to the OP. Meaning they couldn't find the Romani on a map.

[@CierraJohnson-bh4mc]

@@johnnyearp52 Ah okay 😅

[@redbeanrin9545]

Those stereotypes are pretty common in my country... I'm so sorry for that.

[@pennypothoneypot634mimmahappun]

Well done Florian😊

[@juliusraben3526]

Yoo dude.. give us a source to back up that the roma live self sustainable, or get flagged for misinformation.

[@chanterelle483]

I've read that a lot of the demolitions of the old Romani neighbourhood in Slovakia happened during nazism. Not that it makes it better 😢

[@Gamingglory6764]

Well in Greece Romani Gypsy are associated with serious crimes so discrimination sometimes, although it's bad, isn't baseless. If you see people of the same ethnicity comotting crimes this will make you think that all of them are the same but the bad thing of discrimination is that person who aren't bad are always discriminated with bad people of their ethnicity.

[@marinakovac5850]

We do this bullshit in the Czech republic too unfortunately. There is a place called Chánov that looks exactly like the place in the picture. It's truly disgusting that we let this happen but some people are trying to help. Not the government people mind you, they absolutely do not care. The problem is, the people in Chánov have a distrust for non-Roma people and there is a reason for it. Solving this will take so much time and effort.

[@faequeenapril6921]

Its sad what has happened to the Romani people. And it angers me when other europeans are like "im not a racist" but the moment you mention the Romani people they go into a racist tirade.

[@ashton1952]

The hipocrisy 🤯

[@ana419]

You should become a lawyer, academic and/or policymaker.

[@angela.6273]

READ THEM TO FILTH FLORIAN!!!!!

[@NyxSnowstorm]

literally what theyre trying to do to gaza.

[@aimeenunez2904]

Why do people treat them so horribly??? What did they do to be treated like this??? We have not evolved as a species 😞

[@esmith712]

Tragic and infuriating!

[@AkumakoCross]

I have tried so many times to explain this sort of thing to my grandma, most relevantly to us in regards to Central/South American immigrants, but she's so stuck in 1950's rural Idaho that she can't wrap her head around the fact that the majority of "those jobless diseased people" - her words, not mine - are refugees fleeing poverty or violence, or just seeking a better life for themselves and their families. And whenever someone talks about traveling in Europe she can't help but mention how "Europe is full of [Romani]", of course using the G-word version, and always spoken in italics. No matter how or how many times we talk about it, well... as my mother and I half-joke, sometimes you can't wash off the Idaho.

[@muffinbutton2873]

Reminds me of my home town of Pittsburgh where, in the 1950s, they basically made it very easy to just condemn a house, so they went around condemning black housing and then they torn it all down, forcing black home owners to rent because redlining barred them from mortgages. . .

[@Nik-ny9ue]

The Wall of shame wasn't even 25 years ago

[@bleach8510]

This is so sad. I remember watching a video of a youtuber visiting slovakia and wondering why I watched these children living in a run-down apartment in the middle of nowhere in the countryside. There was garbage everywhere. I hope it gets better for them in the future :(

[@sylviehristova6545]

Same here in Bulgaria...

[@bread4014]

In Spain we also have a lot of gypsys and the garbage trucks pass through their neighbourhoods just as much if not more than most neighbourhoods but its still full of trash everywhere. Your point about historical (and current depending on the country) gypsy oppresion is valid but there are people that do want to live like this I´ve heard them straight up saying Id rather live in a shack with hijacked electricity than being crammed into an apartment and paying for rent, water and electricity. Most dont wanna live like this but a lot of them do

[@Sssi4270]

That’s the EU for you ladies and gentlemen

[@Київськийторт]

When I first moved to Canada in 2002 I was told that Indigenous people were all alcoholics and on welfare. It took some time to do my own research and understand just how wrong they have and continue to be treated and how injustice perpetuates the negative stereotypes of the opressed. This has inspired me to learn more about my Romani anscestry and I’m grateful I found you❤

[@celtiberian07]

In Europe 19th century my ancestors where farmers , fishermen, musicians and shop owners . Here we are nurses , cops, janitors , cabbies, doctors , EMTs actors, poets , writers , security guards , electrians etc

[@OnlyLoveIsWelcome]

💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

[@KellyDVance]

Quoting from Ever After (because the line seems to fit the situation, not because Roma are, as often stereotyped, thieves): "If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners corrupted from infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded, sire, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?" First we will deny the Roma their homes, services, and opportunity. Then we will mock them as responsible for their conditions to prove that the situation we created for them is nothing more than they earned. It is gross and sad.

[@user-ib9tw4yf7d]

U know Florian I used to see in documentaries that Romas doesn't want to grow... n not concerned abt education n hygiene... we here in Asia didn't know wat in real is happening to Romas..... felt like just crying.... This is horrendous... vicious n how worst in humanity it can b

[@tktyga77]

What's even more disturbing is that those things have happened during the communist regimes, which goes to show that communism was at best a very mixed bag for the Romani groups in terms of societal handling & treatment

[@saoirsevicteoiria2759]

This is infuriating. I commend your ability to teach those outside your community about Romani people, history, and the ongoing struggle against so much vile discrimination and cultural destruction.

[@elipren]

I had Romani neighbours, but they still didn't have a job or pay the bills.

[@awesomeirlable]

Europeans : “it’s a Roma tradition to bathe in garbage heaps and shit in the streets! My uncle’s cousin’s doctor’s professor’s dog witnessed it first hand and told me”

[@IEnattI]

Hello, so it is a little bit more complicated (and worse...) than you mention. I would definitely not say that Roma were traditionally and self-sustainably living in 1970. First of all those were usually not villages but settlements in pretty bad conditions, where people were already being segregated and not provided services. Similarly even the white majority was not living "sustainable traditional lives" in remote villages but they were suffering under poverty and communism and they still mostly lived in better conditions. Describing it as such romanticizes the situation, completely skipping the fact that plenty of Roma were forced to settle in the former Czechoslovakia. Secondly, Lunik IX did not become a ghetto until mid 1990s, before that there were white families as well. The goal was to mix the Roma population with the majority and forcibly reeducate the adults and assimilate them.

[@marinaww7174]

In Spain also happens. La Cañada Real in the capital is a neighbourhood where people raised their Houses on their own (a lot of people there are Roma) and now they don't have electricity and very much ancient people are sick and diying because of It. It is a shame, It keeps going for two years from now and the goberment doesnt listen