Quote Originally Posted by wooly_mammoth View Post
I think that flak is actually directed at the gypsy minority, which overall is indeed quite primitive. These people however never claim to be gypsies in western countries, but rather "romanians" so I guess that's how that went by.
Ah, actually they describe themselves as "Romani" which used to be spelled "Romany" but has now been Latinised and is therefor indistinguishable from the Latin Romani which of course means "of the Romans" and which people now assume must refer to modern Romanians.

Cunning, eh?