Quote Originally Posted by Andres View Post
They live a nomadic existence and want no master. Of course they are disliked.
This is a very romanticised view about colourfully clothed, singing and dancing travelling roma who move in a sort of caravan and sit around bonfires in the evening, telling stories. This is a very cute western thing to imagine. I've heard that the roma in spain are like that. Ours are quite different. We have maybe a dozen or so families doing this, we call them "kalaydjii" as their main source of income is mending large metal untensils made of copper, tin and such.

The vast majority however live in slum like neighborhoods and the reality there is much less romantic.