An estimated 7 million to 8.5 million Roma live in Europe, with 90,000 to 120,000 estimated to be in the UK.

The truth about Romania's gypsies: Not coming over here, not stealing our jobs, The truth about Romania's gypsies: Not coming over here, not stealing, You may not agree with our views, or other users’, but please respond to them respectfully, Swearing, personal abuse, racism, sexism, homophobia and other discriminatory or inciteful language is not acceptable, Do not impersonate other users or reveal private information about third parties, We reserve the right to delete inappropriate posts and ban offending users without notification. The Roma are also numerous in Turkey, which has about 2.75 million Romani, according to The New York Times: Other European countries with large Roma populations include Russia, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Spain and France. A 2012 study, published in the journal Cell Biology, analyzed genomic data from 13 Romani communities across Europe. Last summer an off-duty policeman in Slovakia went on the rampage, killing three people from a Gypsy community. Prominent Roma need to take advantage of their situation to promote their ethnicity rather than to hide it. Scientists discover new organ in the throat, These could be the funniest animal pictures ever, 'Lost' tectonic plate called Resurrection hidden under the Pacific, 'Starman' just zipped past Mars in his rapidly-decaying Tesla Roadster. Though concentrated in Europe, there are also Romani populations on every occupied continent — about 1 million live in the United States, and roughly 800,000 in Brazil.

Yet this trickle towards Britain could become a torrent come 2014, when the two nations are given full movement rights.

We live on top of garbage. But what people don’t know is that gypsies or Romani people are an ethnic group originating from India who are spread all over Europe.

While it's believed that the Roma were originally Hindu, over the centuries, most Romani have adopted the religions of their host countries.

The Romanian press monitoring institution Academia Catavencu states that the majority of articles published in Romania include racist comments and those dealing with the Roma present them in a negative way.10. ", Pressed for further details about where he might head, he becomes more circumspect.

Now, scientists know why. The youth in Romania should be an important force for bringing about a change. But despite the filing of multiple criminal complaints, no police officer has yet been convicted of killing a Roma. They tend to stay up all night almost every night, playing music, grilling meat. They kept this heritage to this day, in their blood and the language they speak, although culturaly they are influenced by the cultures that surrounds them, and not only eastern europe, but western europe as well, although the western gypsy communities have long been integrated. Many left to go to Egypt, many served in the Egyptian army. In fact, she figures they guard the neighborhood.

To suggest that to mistakenly call someone a Gypsy is to insult them is blatant racism. Last year a gypsy family bought a house nearby, all was fine untill they started to demolish the roof of the house to build another roof with open arches, ugly as hell, some kind of ‘pogoda’ arhitecture used maybe in india, pakistan or i don’t know. Garlic is known to keep vampires away.

Also, if you have been watching lots of those monster movie flicks involving Romanians and gypsies then most likely you’ve also been brainwashed to believe that they are one and the same. By

Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate? Romanian society harbours one of the worst cases of social stigma in Europe.

Being a "Gypsy": The Worst Social Stigma in Romania . Alongside Jews, gays and the disabled, they were targeted by the Nazis for extermination. Unfortunately, the attitude of Romanian youth is another reason for concern. According to the 2011 census, their number was 621,000 people or 3.3% of the total population, being the second-largest ethnic minority in Romania after Hungarians. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. And in 2013, about 10,000 Roma were expelled from France after their camps were destroyed, according to the Baltimore Sun. I often hear the song they sing asking for old iron. They often put their family name on top, also in metal.

Furthermore, one of Romania’s cities, Cluj-Napoca, ranked first in Europe for air quality, according to a study published by French magazine We Demain. It extends about two long city blocks and is lined on both sides with palaces exactly like the photo.

Roma tend to be concentrated in the worst suburbs, such as Ferentari and Plumbuita, where sewerage and electricity are virtually non-existent. Romani Criss is helping the family pay for legal representation. Not only that he was a policeman in Italy and the Romanian staff had to go through security cameras and to go to pick him up from the airplane She lives in a villa that can house 3 families.

Here are their differences: Gypsies are nomadic people who wander around the world a lot. In Romanian politics, Mr Voicu usually advocates the rights of Romania's Romani minority. Lots of naked little kids were running around. Well, even stars like Lenny Kravitz and Metallica frontman James Hetfield did it.

[7 Absolutely Evil Medical Experiments]. Claudia, 40, is one of more than 1,500 Roma Gypsies who live in a sprawling, fetid encampment on a landfill site outside Romania's second-largest city Cluj-Napoca. In an effort to force assimilation, the use of their native language was forbidden in some countries; other places forbade the Roma to marry among themselves. The majority of Roma communities now practice a form of Islam or Christianity that retains some Romani influences. The Roma and the Romanians are not the same ethnogroup. ", The police have yet to comment publicly on the shooting and say they will not do so until the results of an ongoing investigation are revealed. You have Gypsies in Italy you call them zingaro in italian in France the french call them Gitanes . They live in a single-family villa. First of all, it is the result of a number of centuries of conditioning in a society in which the value of a Romani man was often considered less than that of a cow.

She figures at least 40 people live there – but it’s hard to know. Some assistance can be expected from the European Union when Romania eventually joins, but that is at least five years into the future. Many were initially welcomed for their skills as craftsmen or as Christian pilgrims or penitents but from about 1500 attitudes changed. gypsies have a dark skin complexion, they speak an indian language, and they are originaly from northen india. Apart from being a mix of architectural styles which may seem chaotic sometimes, Romania’s streets are usually clean and well kept. Why would a member and representative of the Romani community make such a degrading public statement?

"2 Just one month later, on January 28, 1990, during a violent pro-government demonstration, demonstrators insulted the opposition protestors, calling them "provocateurs" and "Gypsies", implying that only Gypsies could be against the new regime.3 10 May 2003. At the beginning of the investigation, the Romanian national newspaper Adevarul printed the following headline: "An 11-year-old boy has been raped and tortured to death. Still today the oldest surviving Gypsy community in Northern India still exists, the Cobra Gypsies. In this climate it is unlikely that any politician wishing to be part of the new Romanian regime will admit to being Roma; they prefer to deny or avoid talking about their "shameful" roots, and in many cases to join with the majority in discriminatory talk and behaviour.

Gypsies originate from Northern India, a nomadic people.

The gypsy population is distinct in looks from the Romanian population.

Her sister Elena, who lives up the road in a similar-sized room that sleeps eight of her family, is willing to look outside Romania's borders. We live on top of garbage.". Roma must take responsibility for beginning the fight, but they should expect and accept the assistance of all organisations and individuals committed to tolerance and the creation of multi-cultural societies. Incidentally, for those who don’t know, the Nazis murdered half a million Gypsies, men, women and children, by gassing, as their solution to the Gypsy ‘problem’. New York,

An estimated 400,000 live in ghettoes in Bulgaria. "My children are here, my mother is here. Some have studied and have a job, and the traditional gypsies have their own customs and dress code, well established inside the community. "If we are not even accepted in our own country, what is the chance somewhere else will accept us?" Last night i stoped there to stare at the house like you stare to something you don’t like, another bad surprise: reflective mirror windows.This makes me feel bad.

First, Roma themselves must take action against the social stigma attached to their ethnicity and its effects. By the early 16th century they had reached most parts of Europe, including England and Scotland.

None of the 23 grandchildren know how to speak Romani and none know their family history (for example, not one of them could tell the authors the name of their great-grandfather or great-grandmother). Most romanians abroad take jobs in constructions,restaurants,etc. Nowhere is this more visible than in those nations that are supposedly traditional Roma homelands, where for centuries they were historically viewed as slaves for the region's landed aristocracies. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here.

Those responsible are three Gypsies. We romanians, don’t like gypsies because of the way gypsies live and the way gypsies want to keep their traditions, don’t call us gypsies.

Many of the words and grammatical rules of the Romani language are virtually identical to those of the Hindi language. Analysts believe that the wider EU needs to take a much more active role in persuading the latest members of its expanding community to integrate Roma – and make them feel like there is something to stay for. Other cultures have come to accept the word gypsy to relate to fashion sense.

Where?! The root of this problem may lie in the education system: learning frequently consists of memorising facts and formulas and students are expected to accept as absolute truth the opinion of their teachers.

The sweet stench of garbage catches at the back of the throat, and feral dogs chase one another over the heaps of filth. In England, Switzerland and Denmark, the Romani were put to death throughout the medieval era. If so, certainly not many to notice. You saying that gypsies are of romanian/eastern european heritage is like saying afro-americans are of western european heritage.

"He was no danger to anyone.