Unfortunately, Pro-PC crowd, Mehmet is correct in that the Roma are among the poorer ethnicities, and with squalor and poverty comes usually early breeding. However, that is not indicative of the Roma spirit or 'being Roma'. 'Typical' is somewhat accurate given that most Roma are consigned to poverty. But then again, saying typical Roma in response to their breeding is as valid as saying 'typical Turk' when they defend/deny the Armenian genocide, as I recall the majority of Turks (non-Armenians) claimed to support their countries actions.
So in the end run, 'Typical XXX' only goes so far before it becomes more of an expression of contempt than accuracy...
Furthermore, attempts at integrating the Roma peoples has proven to be a clusterfuck in France, to the point that the French government has decided to destroy their slums and kick them out ( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/world/...5roma.html ), regardless of the consequences. Doesn't help the Roma cause that they have a tendency of creating illegal encampments (i.e. slums).
REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Romani_repatriation
Of course, predictably, the spark of the conflict, according to Wikipedia, was:
There you have it Ladies and Gentlemen. Mix one slum-dwelling/illegal settlement erecting people with race riots in the land that practically devolves into civil war over what it means to be "French", and finally mix in the outrageous element that said race riots were precluded over cut-and-dry (at least to the French) criminals and you create the Roma repatriation and expulsion program.
The third condition I think was most egregious and helped turn French moderates against the Roma -- protesting the death of a criminal who actively shoots at the police will most likely cause tremendous outrage....
So in the end run, 'Typical XXX' only goes so far before it becomes more of an expression of contempt than accuracy...
Furthermore, attempts at integrating the Roma peoples has proven to be a clusterfuck in France, to the point that the French government has decided to destroy their slums and kick them out ( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/world/...5roma.html ), regardless of the consequences. Doesn't help the Roma cause that they have a tendency of creating illegal encampments (i.e. slums).
REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Romani_repatriation
Quote:President Sarkozy could not accept the fact that there were 539 illegal Romani camps in his country, and promised that half of them would be gone within three months.
Of course, predictably, the spark of the conflict, according to Wikipedia, was:
Quote:On July 16, French police shot and killed a 22-year-old French Romani man who fled a police check-point by driving through it in a BMW car. In retaliation, a group later identified as 'travellers' ("Gens du voyage") attacked and pillaged the village of Saint-Aignan in central France. The local mayor described the disturbances as "a settling of scores between the travellers and the gendarmerie".[2][7][8] On the same night and for a few nights thereafter, riots erupted in a Grenoble neighborhood after pursuing French police, having been shot at on three occasions during the chase, in turn shot and killed Karim Boudouda, a 27-year-old resident involved in a robbery at the Uriage-les-Bains casino near the border with Switzerland.
There you have it Ladies and Gentlemen. Mix one slum-dwelling/illegal settlement erecting people with race riots in the land that practically devolves into civil war over what it means to be "French", and finally mix in the outrageous element that said race riots were precluded over cut-and-dry (at least to the French) criminals and you create the Roma repatriation and expulsion program.
The third condition I think was most egregious and helped turn French moderates against the Roma -- protesting the death of a criminal who actively shoots at the police will most likely cause tremendous outrage....
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