[Capriole]

My family are from Slovakia (on my father's side) and I had the opportunity to see gypsies up close and personal on my last visit to Slovakia (to Bratislava, Banska Bystrica, Kosice, and the Tatras, mostly). It was dismaying to see that the government of Slovakia gave these people brand-new, handsome, fully-outfitted apartments to live in, and within days they had pulled up the carpeting, built fires on the concrete floor, and burned all the interior appointments. They crapped out in the hallways instead of using the toilets, threw dirty dishes out the window instead of washing them, and adamantly refused to work. The rest of the world is supposed to support them and clean up their messes. Presumably there are good, honest, hard-working gypsies in this country but they sure don't exist in Slovakia, that I saw.

[Cronos]

Gipsies were supposedly thrown out of their lands in Asia because they were deemed to be theives. So, the first political refugees.