While a person who is not Roma only needs to send two messages to a landlord or real estate agent before they can view a rental property in Hungary, a member of the Roma community has to send nine. This is true even if they work as a dental technician. Researchers from CEU and ELTE conducted a representative study on discrimination against the Roma in the Hungarian rental housing market.
In elementary school I had two classmates who were Roma. One was a chill dude, the other was unhinged and dropped out.
Aside from them I also saw dozens of Roma kids my age around town who would just play or cause mischief all day, never went to school, and almost never had any positive relations with non-Roma kids.
From what I’ve seen, efforts to integrate Roma into broader society have been very lackluster, and on the opposite side, most Roma look down on and do not want to integrate into broader society.
Exactly as described.
The issue is on both sides… But if I were in power, I’d have no goddamn clue what to do with the Roma. Seems an impossible task.