Why dogs bark at Gypsies?

[Nurzat]

funnily that seems to be universal - in Romania I've seen dogs barking unprovoked at Roma and drunk people if they just pass by

[Victor]

funnily that seems to be universal - in Romania I've seen dogs barking unprovoked at Roma and drunk people if they just pass by

Drunk people have an extremely unpleasant and unusual odor for dogs, much stronger than for a human smelling it.

[sioned]

Maybe because they look different to other people?

And smell

[Nurzat]

Drunk people have an extremely unpleasant and unusual odor for dogs, much stronger than for a human smelling it.

yeah as a former alcoholic often returning by foot at home late at night I've experienced it well with the stray dogs of Romania

[Mortimer]

yeah as a former alcoholic often returning by foot at home late at night I've experienced it well with the stray dogs of Romania

A stray dog rescued my sister in serbia from a gang of young male thughs I think the cases are individual I just know that dogs are not racist nor do roma stink I know dogs who bark at old people for example that is individual

[Nurzat]

A stray dog rescued my sister in serbia from a gang of young male thughs I think the cases are individual I just know that dogs are not racist nor do roma stink I know dogs who bark at old people for example that is individual

I don't know the reason but the observation made in the OP seems a bit universal, even if biased but strangely universal.

I get barked much more often than my wife for example and I blame it on my anxiety around street dogs (I also don't like pets/dogs/cats at all) but we jokingly also say "maybe I'm a Gypsy" because of this common belief that dogs bark at Roma

[Mortimer]

I don't know the reason but the observation made in the OP seems a bit universal, even if biased but strangely universal

How it is universal because 3 people report it? Nurzat vadar and hungarian master

[Mortimer]

I don't know the reason but the observation made in the OP seems a bit universal, even if biased but strangely universal.

I get barked much more often than my wife for example and I blame it on my anxiety around street dogs (I also don't like pets/dogs/cats at all) but we jokingly also say "maybe I'm a Gypsy" because of this common belief that dogs bark at Roma

In russia they believe it about central asians and in america about blacks do all dogs only like white people?

[Varda]

I think the main reason for this is that Gypsies have a distinctive smell, and dogs are known to have a much more sophisticated sense of smell than humans, so they can sense it better.

I heard from some Serbs who visited India or were in the contact with Indians that Indians naturally have a strong and unpleasant smell, something quite different than among white people. Gypsies in the Balkans and wider are known for not taking care of hygiene, and people usually associate their unpleasant odors with it. Maybe Gypsies also have naturally unpleasant smell as Indians, they are cousins.

I've heard the same from Bosnian Serbs, like "muslimani smrde na loj" - Muslims stink with ram's fat

Muslims should not eat pork and pork products. In more distant past they ate lambs and goats and used tallow of lamb or goat. Many Bosnian Muslims in Yugoslavian time started eating pork and drink rakija, some of even earlier in AH period. My grandfather saw some Muslim workers in Drvar in 1960s how they eat bacon, but they hide it from each other. They ate bacon when they are alone or in company with non-Muslims, never when they are together. For the rakija they even didn't hide from each other, it was more acceptable for them to drink alcohol than to eat pork. In Sandžak was quite different. Rahmetli mufti Muamer Zukorlić said that once some Muslims were roasting rakija in Sandžak and it was shock for entire area, Sandžak talked about that incident for decades. He also said in the same period roasting of rakija was normal for Bosnian Muslims and still is. I heard several times from Zukorlić that Sandžakians and more traditional and more related to Islam than Bosnian Muslims who are more secularized, he was right. Sandžakians in general are more like Muslim Albanians than like Bosnian Muslims.

[Victor]

In russia they believe it about central asians and in america about blacks do all dogs only like white people?

We have few gypsies in comparison to lots of Eastern and SE European countries, I see the gypsies rarely. But Central Asians are presented here. That's the deal.