Mum says things like "gypsy scum" and "thieving Pakis" after working for the Police.
It's hard not to discriminate when you are personally concerned or if you hear case after case involving one section of the community.
But facts and figures do bear out that such discrimiination is not valid.
Sorry for your wife's experience.
But like Dana says, it's about complete bastards, not background.
I'll accept that some travelling people have a disregard for the concept of private property. That I have seen on multiple occasions, and over a period of years. It can go with the lifestyle. They haven't necessarily kept up with social norms, and if it on your doorstep it's probably awful. But you can't paint everyone with the same brush.
I've been friends with Paki bastards. Best cooks I ever met. And Polish immigrants - threw a party for us every Christmas. Fought in WWII too. And don't get me started on the Eye-ties who taught my Mum to cook pizza and other lovely dishes!
Then again, I'm descended from a Mick myself, so maybe I'm just a drunkard liberal with open arms
