Originally Posted by
Nurzat
further research will show that Romania comes from Rom/Roma, not from Rome/Roman.
I am not surprised about the Pszeky calling Roma rumuni, we call that even between ourselves, as a sort of a "ghetto" speech: "ce faci, tzigane?" (Polish letters "cze facz, cigane?") is meant to be a "wassup, buddy?" you'd use with close friends only, and it literally means "how are you, Gypsy?"
they assimilate a lot into Romanians lately, so that culturally it'd be impossible to draw a line, and I think that at high-school age level young Romanians have absolutely no issue with Roma origin of their colleagues, it gets mostly ignored or used jokingly. newer generation looks like they couldn't care less about ethnic divisions, after all they grew up on the Internet all the way, and exposed to all the diversity these days, so I expect next generation not to be nationalistic, not only in Romania, but across Western world (hopefully outside the West as well).
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