2026-10-01 11:23 UTC
I’m under the impression many Europeans mistake Romanis for Romanians. This could be one of the reason I Romanians are very harsh towards their Romani minority (so I heard): they don’t want the stigma of “the country of thieves”. But I obviously disagree with the stereotype that all Romani are thieves.
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@calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2026-10-01 15:07
Is there any language that actually calls the Romani? In English I hear “gypsy” more often, in Spanish “gitano”. Neither of them can be confused with “romanian”. In Spain at least Romanians already have a stigma of being thieves, don’t need to confuse them with gypsies to be racist against them.