Gypsies in Spain: Is it a problem or not for foreigners?

I can't finish the topic of immigration and racism without speaking about this group of people who are so numerous in our country. I will start by saying that it is thought that there are more than 3 million in the whole of Spain. If we group gypsies and peasants, it would easily be double (I remember that there are 47 million inhabitants in Spain in 2014). Once we have this clear, we known that their number is important and it is not something that we should gloss over and forget about as if it were nothing.

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Why can't I just let it slide?

Well, because there are more than just a few people who outwardly have prejudices against them which should be resolved with one stroke of the pen on my part, since I am from the area of Spain and Europe that, after Romania, has the highest number of gypsies; Andalusia. Andalusia is full of them, with a power in terms of adapting without equality, something that must also be mentioned without going into more subject at the moment.

Through their number, their influence, and by coming from abroad due to the already high number of them in Spain and also, as I have said in previous articles, due to the fact that the languages are very similar; it makes us feel obliged to write about them. First of all...

How can I know that someone is a gypsy?

Firstly because of the colour of their skin, it will not be as "white" as the so-called peasants and that will tell you a lot. Their eyes will be a little more open as well, with a clear Flemish ancestry in this sense, which again makes them different to us. Even in the way they speak they are noticeable from miles away, with a lisp that is noticeable and an accent that is not typical of any Spanish area. Because I'm not only talking about Andalusian gypsies, but rather gypsies in general, and in general they have a little something when speaking that makes them different.

And now I won't even tell you about the way of acting, which again is not typical and normal for any of us, but they have a body dynamic that makes them known without knowing them, they are more open and sometimes because of that they seem cocky.

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But is it true when they said that they are cocky and big-headed?

You can't generalise and this is the problem of people, they find a gypsy like this and they assume all the others are too. Of course, there are some just like any other race, country or region in the world, but we focus on the gypsies and things change.

Note : I will talk about the prejudices that people have regarding the gypsies and then make a general conclusion about all of them that encompasses them and defines them in a more or less objective way.

As a general rule they are the opposite; altruistic above all, and that is because they are joined above all with their family (which they pride themselves on above all and they go very far for them) and also their most devoted family group and so on; to those who will not stop helping others despite having little or nothing. If they can help you without hesitation, and from an early age the other children in schools will treat them in a disrespectful way, which does not make sense. Another thing is that in Andalusia there are towns that have more gypsies than non-gypsy people, so this would not correspond; but it is not the usual thing of course.

In addition, how can you tell gypsies that they are cocky when we have treated them as inferior from a very young age?

Ask around if you would prefer your son to be a clown or a gypsy and see what kind of percentage of people will tell you the second. And in Andalusia there will be a large percentage, but ask someone from outside and see what they say. I won't even tell you about Europeans and other nationalities, who have always accused the Romani of being lazy, thieves, crooks, swindlers and inferior in the end, especially in the Nazi propaganda in Germany.

Another thing that is usually said is that gypsies don't wash.

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Is it possible that their cleanliness is less than that of others?

This is the biggest amount of bollocks that I have heard in my life, and the worst thing is that people let it fly. What's it got to do with them being darker meaning that they wash less? If we Spaniards are one of the cleanliest cultures on a day-to-day basis (you only have to go abroad and compare), it is above all because of the cultures that arrived to us, Flemish, Jewish and also Muslim, who wash every day, even several times a day. The cleanliness in the Koran becomes transcendental so that you can go to the higher entity more easily. They cannot be dirty because they would be lacking God and this makes everything else detachable to perfection.

The worst thing is that they themselves, knowing that they are accused of being dirty, make the opposite into their reality, and then they will wash themselves more than anyone else, seeing how they are the only ones who go to the bathroom before having a snack at school at break time. In addition to this, surprisingly (I speak about men of course, because I have been around them more during this occasion, although everything is the same for women of course), they are again the only ones who wash their hands after urinating (fancy word, but no one is surprised, just to have a piss), something that nobody else does even if we say otherwise (live truthfully, man).

Cleaner than everyone else, this prejudice will be taken away once you meet and live around someone. Let's continue with the list, but this is getting longer and it's still possible to talk more about the subject, you will understand that I encourage you a little with the motivating message of every article (I already explained why I use it in the corresponding article on psychology in my blog) and I'll go ahead with the subject.

It will continue...

Let's go... Let's keep learning. Let's keep getting better.

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