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One of them said that they don't like the gypsies because they give Romania a bad name etc.
Ehm, after checking with Wiki, there's almost 2mil of Romani/Gypsies/Travellers which is about 9%, but stats are never great, likely to be more.
Well, being 'from the region' I dare to say that Romania and its population has Romas inherent to that society. Much more than other Central European or Balkan countries. There's not that big difference in the looks, whether more 'Turkish' or 'Greek' looks or Roma/Gypsy.
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Well, average/sort of middle class and if anything below, population feels that way just by living in the country. You can't compare expat salaries for everywhere. They definitely are more than reasonable for local price levels.
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Some Romanian travellers already having travelled to the UK and Ireland and exported these traditions to cities here. Whole gangs/families.
excrab is right.
Pro flying job is just that. If what they could offer doesn't suit you, why complaining, just forget it. 'Western salaries' aren't worldwide for that reason. If some Asian airlines need expats and can shell out for decent salaries, why not.
Although my experience is mainly negative regarding Romania or Bulgaria and their nationals, there's lots of bad apples everywhere and if one went by the experience of, say Czech expats/illegals in the USA, they'd conclude that the country's full of convicts..
You guys can't forget that the 'further away' you go from Western Europe and Med tourist destinations, the less foreigners actually living in those countries. Whether more of a novelty, or opportunity to rip them off.
I do remember 'tourist rates' in Central Europe that were 3-4x higher for Austrians, Germans etc (hotels, services, tourism) as mere mortal local wouldn't afford it and local rates would be laughably low for Westerners.
End of rant. Get a grip.
That's a bit racist mate. Going through London someone hardly can see a local. Everyone is Pakistani or Indian. Does that mean British people are Indians?
ROMA is a generic term for gypsies/romany. But it is also the name of a city in Italy. ROME - ROMA - CAPITAL of ITALY. (Ya know, where Vatican is..etc..etc.).Pff....('')
Romani (as gypsies call themselves, sometimes with an "i", sometimes with a "y" at the end, and generic "ROMA"), is also the term used to describe the inhabitants of a country called ROMANIA, the last country to bear the name of the old ROMAN EMPIRE.
In the Romanian language: "Romani" means Romanians. Natives of ROMANIA, a EU member nation.
To the uneducated citizens of Europe and the rest of the world it seems very easy to confuse the ROMANIANS (native inhabitants of Romania since at least the ROMAN EMPIRE times, A.D. 100), with ROMA/ROMANI/Y, an ethnic population/race which migrated towards Europe around A.D. 1322.
In view of the recent events in Italy, one needs to be aware of the fact that gypsies assumed the name of ROMA/ROMANI/Y, therefore creating the confusion between the name of ROMANIA and ROMANIANS (the native inhabitants of ROMANIA), and ROMA/ROMANI/Y.
This was highly premeditated by the gypsies(natives of India) and had, as end result, confused Europe and the rest of the world.
If it is ROMA and ROMANI, they must come from ROMANIA, and therefore all ROMANIANS are gypsies. Whatta GAS !!..Oh boy !
Not only do gypsies identify with ROMANIA, but also with ROMA, Italy, therefore 2(two) countries are affected - Romania and Italy.
If gypsies call themselves ROMA, they must come from ROME, Italy. Right?
Also it is true they run that country. They are the politicians and the new mafia. They got all this power after the second war when no locals wanted to join the commies, so the ruskies replaced the locals with gypsies. In a way the Romanians are strangers in their own country. Kind like Native-Americans here. I traveled through Romania and although a first impression is screwed, once you travel deep country and get to know real locals they are wonderful and noble people. Real descedents of Romans.
The Soros Foundation is the author of this stupid invention called Roma integration decade. In fact, the only thing they wanted to get was to "grant" gypsies with a fake European identity. The victim was easy to find and easy to double-cross: the new and tormented state, with a new and confused democracy: Romania speacially being the only original locals and everybody else is a migrator in Europe, such as Bulgarians, Yogoslavians, Hungarians, Ukrainians.
Gipsies are from India and are among the last migrating people in Europe. They are very protected by UN
Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc.