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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Carlos the bias here in Czech is towards the gypsy community. Justified or because of the colour of their skins?
This incident in SB now allows any black person to use SB or any similar establishment as a waiting room.
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Local Roma are the only local ethnic / racial group that never managed to integrate into the local society. The only local ghettos that there are are Roma.
From the recent research these were, originally supposed to be historically the lowest cast in India (they were the most discriminated in India itself) and that's the reason they migrated towards the Europe.
It's very difficult to get exact data, but their unemployment rate is around 80 - 95 pct. depending on the methodology used. They are very over represented in prisons (old data from before the break show 3 pct. of population causing 17 pct. of overall criminality). For some regions, such as certain district in North Bohemia there are some (older) data available, where 7 pct. of local gypsy population causes 60 pct. of the crime.
They have their own understanding of crime and code, for which some are not considered criminal if they are inside the community (sexual abuse, rape, physical altercation). And some should be only allowed against the majority (non-Gypsy) population such as theft or robbery. They are very different in other aspects too.
Based on my experience if you live near the hood you're OK in their book. I've observed they also have their own internal cast system where some are sort of a higher cast, and some are literally called "junk" (this is probably a legacy of their Indian heritage). There's generally very little concern over any sort of economizing with money in the community. and some banks and lenders have a blacklist of surnames that are overwhelmingly Roma.
Some older data show that 98 pct. had no qualification (can't be confirmed since official and current data are almost impossible to get). I assume this is already much better by now, but probably not too much. Any school that is majority gypsy generally ends up as a huge mess with a high teachers turnover. There is also a celebration anytime someone gets to the 'special needs' school, as the family gets a bigger welfare check.
While there's some discrimination (local hotel for example issues "club cards" in order to avoid letting in loud and problematic gypsy guests) it's mainly IQ and culture that's a problem there. A couple years ago they tried to mass migrate to Canada as "refugees" after which Canada started to issue VISA for the CZ citizens.