What is your opinion on Gypsies?

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Shizunk · Accepted Answer

The few encounters I had with individuals were mostly positive. In my country there are significant issues with the combination of low employment and high birth rates. They are using the social security system to finance entire families, which creates stable groups not seeking employment and not trying to integrate. That group is also constantly increasing, which imho potentially risks significant social conflict in the future, even though things are relatively calm now. Once the rest of the society starts having problems financing such a ponzi scheme, people may feel forced to remove funding for social programs abruptly, which would create something akin to a low intensity civil war along racial lines, when people who relied on the government suddenly have no way of reliably sustaining themselves.
This is a combination of historical coincidence and bad policy, I don't really blame those gypsies who remain in such isolated groups. Policy needs to shift asap into a negative tax model which increases incentives to work and still have children, but decreases incentives to have children without stable employment. Unfortunately such changes can't be done overnight and if they are not started soon, gypsies could become the target of a very hostile attitude in a not too distant future. There is already tension now, but if some sort of green deal coincides with economic crisis and a chain of governments defaulting on their debts, violence could rise to levels not since since WW2.

AndyOh · Accepted Answer

A different lifestyle.
I lived the gypsy or nomadic life for a couple months in 2019. I was in my trailer and they were in anything they could get and convert... school buses, box trucks, cars, old trailers, etc. Very free, but also without the niceties of a real home; I like having a roomy bedroom and nice kitchen. I like taking a shower everyday if I want. In that life, you shower when you can, and it might be 10 days till the next one.
So it is an adventure, and many people live that life year in and year out.
For money, they pick up odd jobs, like at Amazon for seasonal, or work the oil rigs - I did gate guarding for 4 months, or the beet harvest, or whatever else they can do for big cash for a few weeks of work.

lilyanony1 · Accepted Answer

Umm I generally avoid them.
They tend to stick to their own community.
They beg a lot, and some used to come into the retail store and steal.
We caught a mum and daughter once with £80 worth of clothes between them.
We were suspicious after they'd been in the fitting room for quite sometime then suddenly disappeared without bring any items to put back or change size etc.

My mum said one came to her home begging and selling flowers, because she refused to buy any the woman said she'd put a curse on her.

I avoid them because I don't need negative energy.
It's unfortunate that they are poor but I cannot be expected to pay out for them.
They're in a amazing country, the uk that offer state help.
It's not much but it is something.

cryscrys1 · Accepted Answer

Good, quite people they love life , children, wants to live freely , in my country they absolutely hate to stay inside a house they stay outside.. they like music they dance a lot and sing all the time. From observing them in my country ofc they seem to marry very early like 14-15 years old. If you try to stop them they would make it a big deal and asks the government to stay out of their life and their traditions. Oh and they also have their own language. I still don’t know what language they speak.. but they don’t speak my country language they have their own language too!!

Shortman70 · Answer

Are there still bands of them roaming around back on the east coast? I've never seen them. You always hear stories and myths about them. Not so much here in the upper Midwest. I do not think they would last long here, or they would settle in and be stationary. We pretty much take care of the problems if their out of hand. Things like accidents happen all the time or they mite just leave one nite and be gone like the wind. People here don't like problems they just want life to go smooth and they will make it happen that way.

Guanfei · Answer

If you talk about the "rom" as we call them here, they're a plague. To the point it's probably one thing everyone around the world agrees with.
Here they cause so many problems, if there is a list of crimes, they probably did 90% of them. Stealing, beating, murder, violence, drugs, child abuse, destruction of property... Those who don't hate them never lived near them.
Any experience I had with them was bad. Either they tried to steal from me, or others around me, or were violent. I once saw them sending their child to hit other kids who were waiting for the bus, and if they kids said anything, parents threatened them.

DJB72 · Answer

True Romani are some of the nicest people I've met. Honest, hard working and generally warm people to be around.

The people who get the nickname gypsies because they live in caravans and travel around but are dirty, dishonest louts I have no time for

NicoletteXO · Answer

Love them! If you mean in the colloquial modern Western sense of ‘nomadic, free-spirited and bohemian’ types…
If you mean actual Gypsies from Eastern Europe, keep tabs on your wallet if you meet one.

Seinna · Answer

They don't work and steal/con people. They drink and smoke weed around young children of which they have many. I don't respect that about any enthnicity but it seems to be especially prevelent in Gypsies.

Flower7 · Answer

They have a very bad reputation... especially for being thieves. I'm sure they aren't truly as horrible as the rumors though. Another thing I've heard about them is that they move a lot and don't stay in any one place for very long.

Pyrofox · Answer

The ones true to the orginal meaning are super cool but like with almost anyone the ones using it for manipulation and just for their own gain can just get lost.

VDrago14 · Answer

My interactions with them have mostly been ok. Down here we have to Irish Settlers, and the youth tend to be obnoxious and troublesome. Overall though if you know how to handle them than there won't be any issues.

Anonymous · Answer

They are tramps and thieves. Or so says Cher.  I don’t know too much about them.

ChiPaPa · Answer

Don't know much about their people. I look to the individual on an opinion on people. Probably like everyone else, good and bad.

lonelyguyintheworld · Answer

In my opinion most of us are gypsies. I personally have lived in over 30 places and four different states. army brat when I was younger so I think we are all gypsies in our mind or physically we're all gypsies

CaptainSmartass · Answer

Fucking gyppo bastards fucking take over random fields, and won't bastard move. They also litter and shit over the local area. Literally. They fucking need to be taught a fucking lesson. Fucking savages.

Simples...

jshm2 · Answer

Depends what you mean as there are many different peoples and classes that are labelled "gypsies" in different parts of the world.

t-8900 · Answer

Never met one in the states. Hear they are highly dangerous but I don't like painting groups with broad strokes

Manchild2018 · Answer

They are cool and they put that curse on that fat guy that time where he kept losing more and more weight but then they transferred the curse into a pie and people ate it and died.

Anon621 · Answer

Don't know that much about Gypsies to be honest I'll have to do more studying

snackthatsmilesback · Answer

My dad was gonna be a gypsy before he met my mom. I guess there's probably good and bad ones out there. I don't know any personally.

SlightlyEccentric · Answer

I don't know much about them save for they are generally viewed in an unfavorable light for being thieves and swindlers.

Razp_Sorbet · Answer

My only experience with them is from fairs they hold 😂

Stoner710 · Answer

Aren’t they a tribe from Romania I don't know much about them

Jackblue · Answer

They have never done me any harm nor have they done me any good, therefore I have no opinion on them at all.

David_Bayer · Answer

I know two kinds of gypsies. The first kind are normal people and few of my friends and the second kind are loud aggressive and never come at you alone.

Recurrence · Answer

I don’t have an opinion, I guess I hope the best for them

Anonymous · Answer

My SO and I have been hassled and had trouble from various people because of a particular Gypsie's unlawful/illegal behavior, who's name happens to be the same as mine. So it reasons that we don't have a very high opinion of Gypsies

OddBeMe · Answer

Not sure who or what they are honestly. Aren’t they Slavic nomads? Heathens who fornicate around campfires! Are they taking applications?

Diamold · Answer

They should be taught how to behave in a society...

Ad_Quid_Orator · Answer

Downtrodden who don't deserve the stigma that surrounds their ethnicity.

Jonny59 · Answer

What is your opinion on Gypsies?  they're humans you welcome !

Likes2drive · Answer

Nomads basically that just travel with no real assets working place to place

EssenceOfLight · Answer

They do a lot to confirm stereotypes about them. I speak about Roma gypsies

JohnE_62 · Answer

I wouldn't buy anything from them, you always get GYPT! 😉

jae_jae · Answer

What movies have taught me is they are either good fighters or extremely attractive.

anylolone · Answer

I'm sorry, I can't help but think of chalk everytime I see this. CaSO4, also known as gypsum.

Luckycharms12 · Answer

Well in Ireland don't really integrate. Some are nice some are in to crime

Little_Onion · Answer

Apparently my grandmother has gypsy blood. Dunno what that means for me, but I guess they’re pretty chill and have a bad reputation.

jennifer_Hanmabloom · Answer

A gypsy told me Selena was in hell and everytime someone sings her songs she burst into flames

Anonymous · Answer

i know some hot ones i would roll around in the hay with for a night.

Anonymous · Answer

Fuck them, mostly. They are low level thugs and gangs like a mafia

PuNishant · Answer

I find them intresting

purplepoppy · Answer

Mobile criminals nothing more.

TonyV · Answer

They're weird, just like religious people.

pushingrope · Answer

*Roma, G*psy is a slur.

exitseven · Answer

I try to avoid their curses.

Babygirl_S · Answer

Don't know much about them.

clampfan101 · Answer

Same as any other magic. It’s all fake.

LegendaryIcon · Answer

Well, I'm Jewish, if that matters?

Mcmarvelous · Answer

Small hands.. smell like cabbage

ManHater · Answer

Dirty. Child sex, theives and ingratitude.

hammeronfire · Answer

I don’t have one, I know nothing about Gypsys

grega239 · Answer

They stole my moped a few days ago.

serious · Answer

What does that mean?

Julious0202 · Answer

my experience with them was not very good

Anonymous · Answer

They try to cheat you at carnivals.

butterfingersaredope · Answer

Nasty af

Neosporin · Answer

No opinion.

Iron_Man · Answer

It’s like Tyson fury

WowwGirl · Answer

I need their tears

imfreeze95 · Answer

I have none

Blaine999 · Answer

I am a Gypsy

Drag254 · Answer

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