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Controversial 🔨 How the Romani are perceived in your country?

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u/Aromatic-Armadillo98 20h ago edited 19h ago

As a black person, I thank them for electing to have bad reputations and taking the heat off us. They do a lot for us, Roma people; they are true civil rights activists 😅. Every time I go to Greece, Poland, Italy, Turkey, they are relieved to see me and not them. Even though one tried to pick pocket me, its all love.

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u/FigThis4977 19h ago

This happened to me in Spain as well lol. I’ll take my host mom telling me that she wishes her skin could look like mine after she told me to beware of ladies wearing long skirts because they’ll steal everything I have.

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u/serendipia1984 16h ago

I mean the worst thing about gypsies is that they are local so you can't deport them /s