Racism, Gypsies, immigrants, problems & solutions

[Dystopia]

I think racism is some extreme form of defensive mechanism. Someone sees a man who turns out to be a thief, he tries to be cautious. He sees another man who is a thief, from the same religion / culture / nationality, the same. If he happens to see and / hear about 10 people belonging to the same new (new to him) religion or culture or nationality, he starts to associate. Of course, there are exceptions, or perhaps say 40% of them turn out to be well behaving. But I think there's an inherent feeling of danger associated, so this "prejudice" gets out of the way once you get to know the individual (and the individual turns out to be ok).

I agree with this even if it's politically incorrect. It's the same as black people thinking all whites are racist because they had lots of bad experiences. It's a subconscious bias we develop and it's not necessarily bad

The culture, unfortunately, does have an impact upon the people (I'm talking about groups, not specific individuals). It is the very environment that adds to their education. It might make the difference between, say, ~80% of the individuals that can be considered to be trustworthy and 4%.

Yes

And I believe racism cannot be fixed only by trying to educate the people into accepting a minority, but also into helping the minority - the one who's having an inferior culture - to rise to a higher level.

This is some dangerous ground - I'm not going to comment because I'm not gipsy, but are you advocating erasing their culture? I'm not my girlfriend, but if I was her, I'd probably say "Yes, gipsy culture sucks"

Wait, racists outside of Texas being discussed on AF? What the fuck, over?

You need to come to Italy, Portugal or France to see how racist we can be. It's just a very subtle non noticeable racism, but it exists.

All Romanian ethnics are white caucasian. Just like Bulgarians, Russians, Hungarians.

Yeah it looks that way. I understand the misconception because lots of tourists think Portuguese people are similar to latinos but when they come here they're surprised to see we are mostly white, similarly to Italians and Spanish.

My prejudice lingers whenever a gypsy approaches me on the street and tries to sell me something - actually, insists. I don't know where he got that thing from, whether it's a coat, or a jacket, or some alcohol, but the thing that always works is to say "I don't have any money!"

I sometimes pass by some Gipsy women begging but I usually ignore her just like I do with any other homeless people, unless I can really spare a coin. In my case I smoke and quite frequently I smoke outside so they see me as a supplier for cigs - Bad luck for them, I always and tell them the pack is over