Story about the European mind: I recall when I lived in Spain being lectured to by a spaniard about how racist americans are to blacks. I asked him if Spaniards were racists. Of course not, he huffed. We welcome and appreciate all races. I countered “So if you’re daughter brought home a gypsy you would let her marry him?” He was aghast. “Of course not!” I asked why that wasn’t racist. His response. “It’s different! Those people are thieves!”
Without boring you with details, let's just say that I have worked in contact with virtually every ethnicity and race you could imagine.
The Roma are the only people I have ever met who will steal something that they don't want and have no use for.