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"Recent weeks have seen heightened tensions between Italian authorities and the country's Roma minority amid a crackdown by Silvo Berlusconi's government targeting illegal immigrants and talk by government officials of a "Roma emergency" that has seen the 150,000-strong migrant group blamed for rising street crime." can someone explain? thanks http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/21/italy.drowning/index.html?iref=mpstoryview |
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« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2008, 05:21:27 PM » |
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Gypsies. Italy is having a problem with immigration. The Economist had an article on the Roma just recently. They were overly sympathetic but they support open borders.
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« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2008, 05:26:48 PM » |
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Gypsies. Italy is having a problem with immigration. The Economist had an article on the Roma just recently. They were overly sympathetic but they support open borders.
ok, another stupid question, what are gypsies? where do they come from? sicily? edit: are these just the same eastern european former communists that have gone into all the other european countries? are they middle eastern? |
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« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2008, 05:33:49 PM » |
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Gypsies. Italy is having a problem with immigration. The Economist had an article on the Roma just recently. They were overly sympathetic but they support open borders.
ok, another stupid question, what are gypsies? where do they come from? sicily? edit: are these just the same eastern european former communists that have gone into all the other european countries? are they middle eastern? Without looking it up I'd say they originated somewhere in central Asia. I'm not sure. They are not Slavs if memory serves but eastern Europe has had a large Roma population for a long time. Incidentally, the Nazis tried to exterminate them. |
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« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2008, 05:37:25 PM » |
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« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2008, 05:38:06 PM » |
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ah should have checked there first. i'd never heard of them. thanks peter. with a name like roma i figured they were italian. |
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they call me MR. GRUMPY god damn it!
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« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2008, 05:39:53 PM » |
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« Reply #7 on: July 21, 2008, 05:41:50 PM » |
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isn't there a dude like this in E Street Band? |
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« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2008, 05:43:10 PM » |
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« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2008, 05:44:32 PM » |
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isn't there a dude like this in E Street Band? sorry i just got hung up on the earings and scarf. he has a good job  |
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« Reply #10 on: July 21, 2008, 05:45:45 PM » |
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« Reply #11 on: July 21, 2008, 05:47:10 PM » |
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No, they are not known for being well educated or employed. This is an old stereotype bu,t like all stereotypes, based largely on fact.
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« Reply #12 on: July 21, 2008, 05:49:40 PM » |
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"Van Zandt maintains a certain look, always wearing gypsy clothes and a bandana on stage, while donning a noticeable pompadour toupee on The Sopranos. Both are to cover permanent loss of hair from a car accident where he hit a windshield with his head.[5]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_van_Zandt |
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« Reply #13 on: July 21, 2008, 08:57:36 PM » |
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Guess where the word "gyp" as in gyp joint came from.
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