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Old 03-10-2010, 02:46 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by VladtheImpaler View Post
You cannot begin to imagine how much the people in Eastern (and Central) Europe hate the gypsies. I was quite shocked when visiting Prague and Budapest last summer not to have seen a single one...
Growing up, if I was bad, my parents used to say that they would "sell me to the Gypsies"... but it didn't carry the same weight growing up in Canada.

When I was in Bosnia, there were sometimes gypsies that would stand outside of tourist attractions and ask for entrance fees to things that are free. I paid $20 to get into a mosque that I later found out was free and then another $10 to get into a public park before a local warned me about what was going on.

Ironically, many in the area seem to really like gypsy music though.
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