Or ask a European about their feelings on gypsies and watch them pull out some of the darkest shit you’ve ever heard.
While the EU acts more like one country than the US we are not a single country. So it vastly differentiates from country to country.
Asking people about gypsies will either bring out the worst or they will correct you and say that calling them Gypsies is like calling a black person Niger. Romani is the preferred term btw.
As long as they aren’t assholes idc, I have had white/white-ish (if you consider Spain genrally white, which some don’t lmao) “friends” that are way worse than gypsies or moroccans (which are other ones that are mentioned often).
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What’s really fun is that “gypsys” can refer to two entirely different groups of people, both hated out of pure bigotry.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Travellers
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I was originally gonna say Romani but then I remembered this very detail.
Europe is honestly just as if not more racist than the US
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
We just emigrated to the UK and my daughter is having trouble finding friends… she finally met a kid her age and the kid told her that the N-word isn’t offensive in the UK.
Fucking what? And we lived in Indiana, the Middle Finger of the South, where the KKK was re-formed in the 1920s.
So now she has to start all over again finding friends. She was pretty upset and I don’t blame her.
Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Depends ofc where you look, what country etc. And if you count people living here who themselves don’t count themselves as an European