>Americans who have never dealt with gypsies think their gypsies are anything like Europe's. Pretty much every country with a big gypsy population in Europe ha

>Americans who have never dealt with gypsies think their gypsies are anything like Europe's. Pretty much every country with a big gypsy population in Europe has programs to integrate them and have given them a chance (Romania, Spain, Portugal, France etc). Gypsies in Europe have repeatedly refused to integrate into our societies and while some do integrate and leave the gypsy life behind (I personally know one such person) they are the exception to the rule. Those who do face tremendous discrimination and have a hard time finding work. Why is that? I would argue that racism (or xenophobia) stems from repeated, bad, past experiences with a group of people. The gypsies are one such group. They deal in petty crime in every city, in organized crime and ATM theft (they make the ATMs explode at night and take the money), abduct children to raise as their own or as sex slaves, are untrustworthy in any exchange you might have with them (either they sell you crap and in that case you will never see them again or they sell you good stuff then come back later to steal it from you), if you wrong them in any way they will come back in huge groups and exact revenge, they roam the country and set up camps in private property or forests and leave a mess behind and last but not least if they have documentation the women will have dozens of kids and abuse the welfare systems. How do you resolve this with "those poor gypsies are being persecuted, just give them a chance"? This is how they are, you can't change them no matter how many programs, education or money you throw at them.