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Wishful Girl II

I was in a restaurant in a small town in Transylvania (Romania) where I've seen this little gypsy girl. It was so many people inside eating, drinking and having...
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I was in a restaurant in a small town in Transylvania (Romania) where I've seen this little gypsy girl. It was so many people inside eating, drinking and having fun, but no one noticed this little kid who was begging at the door. Local people see gypsy beggars every day, but no one has a good word to them.

Around the world, many Roma live in terrible poverty, without jobs and with very little education. But how much of this is the community’s fault? How much of the stereotypes of Gypsy criminality are true? How much has that contributed to their social exclusion? Should the Roma be forced to integrate more into mainstream society? If so, how to go about this? Or is it simply that the non-Romany community is ignorant and prejudiced for no good reason?

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