She should try it again in Bulgaria they love Gypsies there.
Turkey as well. When I was there I was riding with a Turkish businesswoman in Istanbul she pointed out a neighborhood and said “That’s where we make the Gypsies stay.”
The first problem they faced as they entered Europe from Persia through Bulgaria was they showed up at the same time as Mongols who were busily conquering the world.
That did not settle well with anyone already in Europe.
Subsequently as the Mongols withdrew and the Moslem Turks became a threat, Gypsies throughout the Balkans were literally "enslaved".
From that point on they lived on the margins and were despised.
Eventually Europeans will get over it ~ and too bad the Romanians, Bulgars, Serbs, Croats and other Eastern and Southeastern Europeans don't understand that to the most authentically Western eye they and the Gypsies are all part of one society, and it's not viewed as all that advanced.