Gypsies in Italy?

Question

I heard about the Gypsies in Italy before I arrived, so I was aware. However when I was watching the news I saw some things that made me feel that they are a persecuted people. Can someone give me an idea about where they come from, why many seem to be beggars and if they are allowed to work in Italy. I heard somewhere that many of them hide the fact so they can get work other than begging. They did get on my nerves with all the begging, but I thought they were a beautiful looking people in general. Their eyes and complexion I found remarkable.

Answer 1

Don't believe the hype. they're not persecuted at all.

Just consider that for instance the cityhall of Milan gives any of them 25€ per day, to help them living (but they're not Italian, which is unfair because if I come to your country and goof around, I highly doubt your country will pay me any amount of money per day to help me pay for my needs).

Moreover gypsies are very often given electricity, water, and every sort of subsides, they're more likely to receive benefit than an Italian person in the same situation.

They are usually very much hated because they have the custom to send their children to steal money and electronics from people on the streets, this way they risk nothing since the police can't do anything to underage people and that's why there's no way out of this problem.

Answer 2

They do not want to integrate to Italian society.  They refuse to work and send their children to school.

Last week, a group of them had a revolt in Milan just because the Mayor of the city wanted to relocate them to a more suitable home.  The mayor also asked they send their children to school.  End of story, they revolted against police, threatened to throw Molotov's and many of them slept among rats that night, just because they want an easy life.

I see them outside the supermarket and kept asking, and asking for money..and I do not say 1 or 2 euros... they ask you for thirty, because according to them you have money!

It's a very stressing situation and they take advantage of Italians.

Answer 3

i'm italian

first of all italy is a civil country where every people have the same rights

second point the great part of gipsies in italy don't work and  are panhandler for they free choice, and they don't want to integrate themselves in italians society

Answer 4

Yes you can see many of them still in Italy, the come from the Valcanic countries. People is affraid of them because many stories arround. I am not shure, I saw in Florence.The are Rumanian. Croatia, those countries.

Answer 5

i'm italian!

persecuted? i don't think so! some gipsies are very weel integrated they live in house have job... but other live outside the law stealing and they live nomadic withot house they go to beg for alms with babyes! they don't permits to theyrs son to go to school! it isn't a simple situation!

they come from romania that is a country in east europe not from rome!

Answer 6

The "gypsies" are called that because people thought they were from Egypt. In fact, they originated in Hind, a part of India.

Gypsies are stereotyped as being thieves, swindlers, and whores. To a certain degree, this is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

One might compare it to the current status of Mexicans living in the US. People complain about them working out of one side of their mouth, complaining about their taking welfare out of the other side of their mouth, complain about their being criminals out of whatever side of their mouth is left. If you can't  earn a living, and you don't get assistance, what's left but engaging in crime?

The Romany suffered even more in the pogroms of WWII and Holocaust than did the Jewish people.

Is hiding your ethnic origin, in order to find honest work, something to be ashamed of? Shouldn't the shame lie on those who make hiding one's ethnicity necessary?

They say your appearance at age 20 is the result of your genes, and your appearance by age 40 is the result of your character. I believe the Romany to be exceptionally attractive at age 20. At age 40, it's hard to make generalizations about *any* group.

Answer 7

After reading your question, I e-mailed it to a friend of mine who's a  Rromani.. that is also called "Gypsy" So I can get an idea straight from my friend.

First and foremost, you mean Rromani, not Gypsies.

Rromani came from, originally, India... NOT Romania. They have been an underclass for centuries upon centuries and still are being oppressed. This has resulted in the begging because that is the only way they can survive. Even if a country affords a repressed people rights, which I do not know if Italy has done with the Rromani, the people cannot, within a generation or two, change the pattern of centuries.

I do not know about Italy, specifically. I know about EU. In EU they are put in classes for the mentally impaired, regardless of their own IQ. They cannot get a job because nobody will hire a Gypsy. Not all of EU is this bad but a good chunk of it is. <*-*>