Annual Report Discrimination 2015

Discrimination and the Roma community, 2015

“So much so that the couple was not content with a Hollywood wedding but went all out and spread

the festivities over four days is if it was a Gypsy wedding.”

Still another stereotype of the Roma community that sparked racist and discriminatory comments against the

Roma community in general amongst forum users:

“Gypsies are Spain’s cancer”

“Give a Gypsy a job... and if he makes it to the end of the day... the next day he’ll show up late to work!

No. He’ll think it over and say: For that lousy salary why would I ever work day in and day out when I

can make 100 times more “some other way?”

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National.

The Media.

Direct discrimination.

A news story was published under the headline “Seminarian Gypsy

wedding in Seville” alluding to the duration of the celebration comparing it to that of the ordination of a priest.

This comparison is a stereotype of Roma weddings.

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National.

Internet.

Direct discrimination.

The following question was posed to spark debate on two Internet

fora,

and

Which are the worst Madrid neighbourhoods?

Many responses targeted neighbourhoods with a high density of Roma population. This would not have both-

ered us had they not associated these neighbourhoods (and the Roma community) with marginalisation, delin-

quency and drugs trafficking.

One of the comments:

“Outside of the M-30 beltway you have the renowned ‘roundabout’, famous for its junkies, Gypsies

and other riffraff, documented in the famous film ‘Callejeros’.” Continuing along the M-30 beltway,

you come to another hot-spot in the East of Madrid also portrayed in a film, this time by the director

Almodóvar ‘What have I done to deserve this’. I’m referring to the mythical neighbourhood of ‘La Con-

cepción’ known as ‘la conce or la concep.”

We requested the closure of this thread but received no response.

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