Racism towards Gypsies

    The "Egyptian" nick was gived them because they pretended that are Egyptian Lords in 15th century when started to travell in Western Europe.


The ethnonime "Roma" have no connection with the city; in their language means man.


The gipsies from Western Europe were also called vlachs or roumans because most of them spreaded from the teritory of the Wallachian (Romanian) principates (where they arrived in 14th century).

Very interesting. There are often articles in Radio Prague about gypsies and I have found it interesting that racism is probably a bigger problem for some European countries than it is for the USA!

True Vivek, as long as your parents or grandparents didnt come from Europe (mine did). Racism tends to be learned.

 When i was kid i was always told about the "evil" gypsies and how they would come into the villages and steal chickens, clothes, cattle, and babies. Not sure how true this is, but for awhile i must admit i was racist towards gypsies. not so much anymore, although i am alittle suspicious.

Where i live there is a Gypsy trouppe that once every year comes to one of the richer parts and steals tons of stuff. One of them pretends to have a heart attack or other medical emergency, while the others go into the house and wipe them clean 

If it wasn't such a serious subject I would laugh. The Gypsies would located in Russia where they traveled from town to town. They would dance, have little-rig games.Their most skilled trade was lying, stealing, and cheating No one was against the Gypsies.As with other groups of people.Their actions bring the Racism toward them.No country or regular Joe's/Jane's teach their children to hate them.They bring this type of actions on themselves!!!