You can't make people do something they don't want to do. Unless you force them. This said, the Roma are not easy. They have lived on the Balkans for centuries and never became part of whatever society there was, while other groups like the Armenians, Jewish, the Turkish have basically melted into our population (the latter being artificially dragged out by politicians who need some.. any! sort of agenda). It is exactly this kind of refusal to play by the rules what the French experienced and many others will, over time, as they meet more Roma. The trouble is that to start a process of integration you'll need some level of trust, and there's little trust at least among Bulgarians towards the Roma.. unfortunately.PFVA wrote:As for romanians and the famous Roma Clan gypsies that Conservatives in several countries, including Sarkozy seem to have a preference to use in their speeches against immigration i still don't understand how can one single group of European Citizens be so discriminated against. And yes we know there is a lot of social problems with that group but other gypsy clans have been integrated or at least semi-integrated. The hispanic clans come to mind, the EU needs to do for the Roma people what they have done for the others.
It's not all gloom though. There are small towns and villages where "locals" live well with Roma but then this is also where the Roma have sent their kids to school and where they have taken half of the initiative to integrate.
Oh, and one thing that angers Romanians in particular is when they are being equated with the Roma -- it's a similar sounding name and they may carry the same passports, but at least ethnically, they are different.
