Sentence examples for about roma from inspiring English sources

Why is that middle-class Czechs who pride themselves on being liberal-minded feel no shame in circulating jokes about Roma that they would never dream of telling about blacks, Jews or other politically-protected minorities?

From my experience of writing novels about Roma people and my own English Romany ancestry, I know the frustration of seeing works pigeonholed by their characters' ethnicity.

The European Roma Rights Centre said Mr Sarkozy's plan "reinforces discriminatory perceptions about Roma and travellers and inflames public opinion against them".

Why should the EU care about Roma?

It will take generations for bigoted attitudes about Roma to change.

"People say bad things about Roma that aren't true and often judge a book by its cover.

In addition, there are about 12,000 Roma from Bulgaria and Romania, many of whom live in unauthorised camps in urban areas across the country, according the French Roma rights umbrella group FNASAT.

Support to preschool children has been organized, and a new building for preschool education has been built and equipped in Bujanovac, with space for about 120 Roma children.

But he said he feared that recent scaremongering about the Roma threatened to push successful Roma underground.

But Éric Fassin, a sociologist at the University of Paris VIII who is working on a book about the Roma, notes something new about the current anti-Roma campaign.

In Slovakia, a small, predominantly Catholic country where about 380,000 Roma eke out an existence on the fringes of society, anti-Roma demonstrations have been held repeatedly since late last summer, when two Roma badly injured a man in a robbery in the east.