Why are Gypsies discriminated against?

Gypsies do not produce, farm, weave, have no fixed foothold, no fixed work unit, and of course no fixed income. Gypsies do not intermarry with foreigners, but rely on blood relationship and some long-established habits to maintain this unique group. Sometimes they walk on a busy street, just like an island. And the most unique skills they once relied on for survival: divination, singing and dancing, metallurgy and street juggling, have also been spurned by Europeans in modern civilization. They often live on welfare, often associate with thieves and beggars, or live an embarrassing life in exile like fugitives. In France, "Gypsies" are directly regarded as synonymous with thieves and liars, which is obviously an insult.

Gypsies wander around, sometimes inadvertently bringing some infectious diseases from one place to another. Therefore, many Europeans associate Gypsies with diseases, disasters and other events, which makes them more discriminated against.

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Gypsies often appear in foreign masterpieces, such as Esmeralda in Notre Dame de Paris, a girl stolen and raised by gypsies. Carmen, the protagonist in Carmen, is a gypsy woman. Another example is the mysterious gypsy who predicted the fate of the entire Bo Nevitt family in One Hundred Years of Solitude. There are also Alexa's childhood sweetheart "Little Cuokan" in Soviet literature, Pushkin's long poem "Cuokan People" and so on.

Gypsies appear in these works for two reasons: first, their wandering lifestyle can enrich the life experiences of characters and minimize the restrictions of geography and environment on people. And their experiences are either torture or fantasy, but they are all wonderful, vivid and attractive.

The second reason is that gypsies, especially women, have always maintained and passed on a traditional skill, that is, divination. Although in real life, this so-called skill is regarded as a way of deception and fraud. However, in artistic literary works, this nation with unique divination can usually add mystery to the works and lay the groundwork for the subsequent plot progress.

In literary works, Gypsies are optimistic, simple, warm and kind. But in the real society, they are not accepted and welcomed by people. Although they are found in almost every country in Europe, although they have existed in Europe for a long time, they have always been regarded as "foreigners" by Europeans because of their anarchic social organization and wandering and migrating lifestyle.