(July 25, 2015 at 4:38 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: And yes, Romanians do seem to have it hard sometimes, among fellow Europeans. Maybe it's because of the whole gypsy stigma not rubbing off. But I don't think us Moldovians have the same Image-Problem exactly, even though we share a curious history, a culture and a language with the Romanians*. For one, nobody seems to know about us existing in the first place. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Yes the woman I spoke to said that people had a difficult time differentiating between Romanians and the Roma.
I was thinking about this a bit more, and if you study in Germany then the racism actually works for you because the Germans really value their own qualifications over those of other countries. There is a real difficulty in getting qualifications outside of Germany actually recognised, but then they value qualifications over experience in Germany. So if you study in Germany you will actually have an advantage over someone from a richer country that hasn't.
