...But that wouldn't be giving you a fair chance as an individual. See what I mean?
True. We have to take everyone as an individual and give them a chance, but im not offended if people act suspicious around a 6 ft 2 240pound tatted from head to toe gypsy LOL. Thats just common sense.
As Nehemiah pointed out above: Its largely by culture, and our culture is heavily based on respect....... FOR OUR OWN PEOPLE. So we are very careful about how we treat our parents and how we speak to them, we cant even live above them in a building (dont ask why, we got a ton of weird rules, like if you drop a fork on the ground, you cant wash it, throw it away its done for) and we have to talk in "ye" (plural) when talking to our elders, they get to eat first and all that.
BUT thats where it stops, we are taught to respect OUR people, but when its the general population we dont give a HOOT about the general population, and that is why the crime rate is so high, thats why gypsies are the only group in Finland that doesnt even graduate 9th GRADE, because they just dont care about society at large. Its just our own little world.
In America id say the issue is hip hop culture at large as was pointed out by two others here, thats what really caused a huge downfall, because if you look at the 60s, the black communities werent like this. People werent using n-word and b-word every other word.
I was just thinking about how MUSIC has destroyed all cultures, and its done so for whites here in Finland too, many people are "metalheads" and SURPRISE SURPRISE we got record numbers of suicide and depression and mental health problems, people cutting themselves, dropping out of life basically living on welfare. Clearly listening to demonic music with depressing tones and lyrics has done its job. Its madness to think music has no impact on people. IT CERTAINLY DOES.