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Originally Posted by mb1547
I've taken the Eurostar between London & Paris many times,....
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Nobody cares, even less so, since
tigani usually ride buses long distances instead of expensive trains.
Wear a back-pack next time....on an IC or local train, or on a streetcar/tram.
When you come up on a stop,
tigani will take a knife, slit your back-pack open, yank everything out, and then the others will scoop up your stuff and jump off.
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Originally Posted by St. Josef the Chewable
I used to live in the Czech Republic, and there was a case at the time where Romanies (i.e. "Gypsies") living at the end of a street destroyed their (subsidized) home with garbage. The city couldn't get them to maintain the property, so they eventually started building a wall so no one would have to deal with the noise and enormous piles of trash. Needless to say, when the international press got a hold of the story about "The Wall of Racist Shame" or whatever they called it, foreigners were outraged and the town council abandoned the project.
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Too bad they bowed under pressure to dumb-asses.
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Originally Posted by St. Josef the Chewable
Many Czechs are undoubtedly racist,....
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No, they are not. Prejudiced, perhaps, but bigoted or racist, no.
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Originally Posted by St. Josef the Chewable
in the sense that they negatively prejudge....
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By your own admission, Czechs are prejudiced, not racist.
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Originally Posted by St. Josef the Chewable
... Romanies to be dirty, dishonest, lazy, etc....
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And that is true.
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Originally Posted by St. Josef the Chewable
It's sad because, obviously, there are many decent Romanies,...
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What's sad is you don't know how to tell the difference between traveling
tigani and settled
tigani.
Effectively they are two tribes, divided into bands (much like aboriginal peoples in the Americas).
Settled
tigani live in houses, wear shoes, send their children to school and they work, often as musicians or smiths....they're quite respectable.
Traveling
tigani wander around in caravans of horse-drawn carts or beat up vehicles, they send their kids into the streets to beg...
....they even injure the children, amputating limbs to make them more "beggable," and they will steal anything and everything.
Traveling
tigani are the most useless people on the entire Planet Earth.....even more useless than the "homeless" (snicker).
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Originally Posted by St. Josef the Chewable
... and those who conform to the negative stereotypes often come from impoverished backgrounds and have little education or job prospects.
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And that is self-inflicted.....
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Originally Posted by chielgirl
Funny, I camped all over Romania a few years ago and never ran into any problems. I'm an old woman, traveling alone.
This year, I'm going to Bulgaria and the Balkans.
I don't run into any of the problems some of you seem to insist occur.
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Some of us actually live in those countries....
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Originally Posted by Ponderosa
When I lived in Germany Gypsies stole my boots.
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That reminds me of this loud Aussie. I kept telling him he'd get into trouble. One week the idiot Aussie headed up to Cjango Land, and was dumb enough to touch a Cjango girl in some tavern -- he put his hand on her shoulder.
She runs out and comes back with all of her brothers, father, uncles, cousins, and nephews who proceed to drag Aussie idiot out of the tavern and beat the crap out of him.
Said he woke up and
tigani were pulling his clothes off of him...all of them, even his underwear. So he's buck naked, no ID, no money, no nothing, up in the mountains in Cjango Land --- he hid the bushes off the side of the road and flagged down police driving by.
Culturally...
Mircea
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