The most popular argument in recent years are the equality between people and human .
rights so several human rights organizations are founded for solving these problems. Despite .
these good endeavors, nobody care about the discrimination towards gypsies because of their .
ethnicity. I think, the only reason for this problem is; there is such a inherited hatred in people .
mind because this problem is retrospective.
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The reasons for this discrimination are not difficult to identify. Firstly the .
discrimination begins with the refence boks such as famous encyclopedias and dictionaries. .
Because the definitions of word " Gypsy " is quite absurd. For example the 1911 edition of .
the Encyclopedia Britannica describes gypsies as " gaudy, ostentatious, boastful,arroant and .
superstioious." and in its 1958 edition tells that " Gypsies have the mental image of a child of .
ten that they have never accomplished anything." In addition to this source "The Oxford .
English Dictionary" described Gypsy as "a cunning rogue,deceitful and fickle". According to .
these definitions, nobody can have a positive attitude towards gypsies. For example; we .
assume that a teenager who wants to get information about gypsies, goes to the library then he .
generally would prefer to read these popular sources for collecting infos so he will has a .
prejudice towards gypsies when he meets them during his lifetime. Nevertheless if the .
community has same tendency, gypsies have to live in outskirts of the cities and they have to .
be together for less-discriminated life. From this point, the gypsy people look like the jewish .
community and they put distance between themselves and the others. "This distance between .
the Gypsies and us has been intentionally created by both sides." (Sway, Marlene. "Gypsy Life .
in America", 1988) In contrast gypsies aren't as lucky as jewish people because they have .
never had as much money as jewish. Thus they have never had a chance to do some notable .