Romanians

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Have you come across many in a welfare situation? Any I come across are in work situations (mind you, I'm not a welfare recipient and I don't work in that area).

They probably haven't met a single Romanian full stop, and probably couldn't point to Romania on a map either, but are going to fight the good xenophobic fight anyway like that other poster.

they’re obviously here to increase our ratios

(nicked from interesting maps thread)

There could be some confusion here between Romanians and Romani. They're very different.

Romania - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania

Romani - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people

The Romani information is absolutely fascinating, but it's important that people educate themselves and distinguish the differences before jumping online and making a fool of themselves.

The Romanian gypsies are a scourge.

There you go! 😄

Bram Stoker - Dublin. Dracula (fictional) - Transylvania, in Romania (then Hungary I think) 👍️

New Polish colleague, who doesn’t claim any welfare, like 99% of immigrants, hates being called Eastern European and is adamant he’s Central European. Turns out he’s correct. Romanians are not from Eastern Europe either.

They don’t like being labelled Eastern European as it groups them in with Russia.

I respect and relate to that when I hear foreigners say Ireland is British or part of the British Isles.

No. By what criteria do you say such. Originally East meant East of Rome or so I was told.

Have to disagree with this, Romanians are one of the most genuine people I've met, they get a lot of stick as people presume they're Roma's and get slagged etc as if they where.