{"id":7596,"date":"2021-01-13T15:52:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T15:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=149612"},"modified":"2021-01-13T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T15:52:41","slug":"why-is-discrimination-against-american-roma-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/13\/why-is-discrimination-against-american-roma-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is discrimination against American Roma ignored?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The situation at NSU is not unique. Other offensive, anti-Roma conduct is experienced across the United States. Romani Americans have long been rated as having the lowest \u201csocial standing<\/a>\u201d among ethnic groups in the US. In two polls conducted in 1964 and 1989 on the social standing of ethnic groups in the United States, Americans rated Romani people, along with Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, as having a lower social standing than a fabricated ethnic group, the \u201cWisians\u201d. Clearly, centuries of racism against Roma in Europe have infected attitudes to transatlantic Roma immigrants and their American offspring.<\/p>\n A 2020 study entitled \u2018Romani Realities in the United States<\/a>\u2019, by the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and Voice of Roma (an American non-profit organisation), documents widespread anti-Roma discrimination. Almost 80% of the 363 Romani Americans who took part in the study reported that Americans discriminate against people of Romani heritage.<\/p>\n Of the participants, 14% experienced discrimination in their interactions with social service offices, and more than half felt discriminated against while being served in restaurants, stores and other service encounters. Even at Romani events, insulting behaviour towards Romani Americans is common. \u201cLook at this black cow,\u201d someone attending a Bulgarian Romani concert said to one of the participants.<\/p>\nRacial profiling by police<\/h2>\n