I’ve been in Italy and had a group of a woman and two girls shove a horizontal piece of cardboard at my midsection, but there was nothin in my pockets. Per i bambini! Per i bambini! they cried, and they looked at me, I shoved the woman. The cardboard trick.
Thanks ladidadi, no it’s not based on one incident. There were a few, one who threw hot oatmeal on my friend in attempt to steal his camera.

I’m just trying to understand contempt on gypies. My dad is Romanian and from what I’ve seen visiting his hometown, Gypsies (Roma) are frowned upon.

They steal and they teach their kids to steal and I’m trying to understand why.

In America the Gypsies are disadvantaged, and I agree with that. But they steal and teach their kids to steal. And live in comfort.

I don’t know what to think of that.