&gt; They just started, since 30 years, to have a &quot;citizen&quot; status in Romania (mostly due to the need of travel documents).What&#x27;s the benefit in promoting this nonsense?

&gt; But when it comes to the Roma, they suddenly turn extremely racist! But they don’t seem to consider it racism.It is because of the negative image of Romas and their interaction with the rest of society. It is a bit like segregation based on race in the US, with the difference that here Roma are not a &quot;neighborhoud&quot; but more of a &quot;slum&quot;, so they don&#x27;t have any influence on their destiny.They just started, since 30 years, to have a &quot;citizen&quot; status in Romania (mostly due to the need of travel documents). Before that, most of them were not even registered (no birth certificate, no id) which led them to the edge of society. 
Not all were like that, only the many unfortunate. 
The things started to improve, slowly, in the latest years (regarding racism), but there is still a long way to go.

&gt; after working with and meeting many more RomaniansJust want to mention that Roma and Romanians are two different peoples. I have also worked with a bunch of Romanians, and I agree they are just like everybody else. Though I’m a little confused why there is both the Italian looking type of Romanian and the Dracula looking type. I’ve never looked into the history there. I don’t think either one is Roma broadly speaking (though there are Roma in Romania I believe, as there are in Germany and elsewhere).I think the issue people have with groups like the Roma isn’t that they are fundamentally defective or something like that. It’s that they don’t consider themselves to be part of the broader national society, and so they put the interests of their own group above the interests of those outside of their group, to the extent that they may go so far as to harm those outside of the group to benefit those inside the group.This is actually a very natural human tendency, and I think it has to be socialized out of most people during childhood, or else they would do it too (assuming they had a group to do it with).It’s basically the same as how Americans put their interests above the interests of people from most other countries. Except instead of happening between people in different countries, it happens between people in the same country.

Roma and Romanians are two different things.

It&#x27;s like everything, one small part of a groups give the rest a bad name.There are a small group that &quot;make the most noise&quot; and give a bad impression. I can admit I did have n impression from bad experiences and did find myself generalising but after working with and meeting many more Romanians, great friends and great people overall, it sounds stupid saying it out loud now, but they&#x27;re just like everyone else. Personally I try to be more aware of those conceptions, articles like this though just seems to want to put &quot;Romas&quot; into a group too.

in Italy gypsies are associated with travellers that live in makeshift trailer parks. they dont have access to stable temporary jobs and the stereotype is that they steal to make a living. The sanitary conditions in 80% of the nomads parks i saw (~10) were appalling, expecially for the minors, often visibly dirty and disheveled. Obviously you cant call cps on such cases, its their &quot;culture&quot;

Antisemitism is super popular these days! I guess a rising tide lifts all boats :)

It&#x27;s the last acceptable form of racism unfortunately.

Is the Roma reputation not based in reality? Like significantly moreso than other group stereotypes.I have run into more than a few Europeans who wouldn’t so much as entertain a single racist thought, against Africans or East Asians or Indians etc.But when it comes to the Roma, they suddenly turn extremely racist! But they don’t seem to consider it racism.Some interesting cognitive dissonance going on. But I always chalked it up to the Roma thing being basically true and readily observable across Europe.

There&#x27;s a great YouTube channel by a Romani guy about Roma history and culture: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;@florida.florian&#x2F;videos" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;m.youtube.com&#x2F;@florida.florian&#x2F;videos</a>

&gt; Some families told me they had spent a lot of money on building a house, but their kids didn’t know how to do anything because they had spoiled them so much. In hindsight, they thought it might have been more important to send them to school.

Roma families are defying their persecutors with bling palaces