I do think it's true that some past events and attitudes affect how people think, but this whole thread is ridiculous.

Well, I guess than in our parts of Europe (and even Europe in general) customer service is perceived differently than in the US. Customer is not the king in a way that you must do everything they wish for. But this comments about how we're so weird because one person was rude to a friend-of-a-friend are very insulting.

And you believed that shit? I tell bunch of stereotipes about my region to people for fun but that is what they are - funny stereotipes, not the way how every single person in this region behaves / thinks.

I'm pretty sure they were performance group, not a band.

What's with the awful comments?! They stood up for what they believe, they stood behind there message even when they were treadet horribly and they decided to continue figthing for others.

As someone who recently read the book for the first time (I'm an adult) I got irationally upset that no-one got this. She loved them, she cared for them when it was easy to do so. She even tried and went to school. But it bacame easier and easier to ignore them and just enjoy life - why be upset all the time if you…

Not just so-called developing nations. Most of Europe has negative birth rates for the same reason - increased income, low infant mortality, family planning services, accessible contraception, sex ed, more years in education system and security for the elderly. Also due to expensive housing (adults continue living…

No-one else is bothered simply by the fact he's Nicolas Sarkozy's brother? Okay, just me then.

I don't know anything about the term 'traveller' and only heard it as in 'Irish traveller' but I'm not from that part of Europe so I don't know the term's history. OP says it's appropriate, though.

Oh, like pop culture never did any cultural appropriation? Just because it's usual, it doesn't mean it's okay.

You know, as always, not everyone will agree :) I have a friend of Romani descent and she prefers the term G*** as she finds it hypocritical to use a PC term while being predjudiced (as most people here are). I respect her opinion, but I rather use less charged term and I think she understands.

Well, I'm not a scholar on this topic, but I live in Europe and the term is too often used either as derogative or in a way that appropriates the culture for me to be confortable by its usage. If you mean Romani, say so, if you mean another nomadic nation, use their name - I think it's wrong and ignorant to just group…

I don't get why this term isn't considered an ethnic slur (according to Wikipedia and how casually people use it) or at least as something that only Romani people can use. I was recently in a holocoust memorial and they used it everywhere - I know some people don't see it as a slur, but come on, it was a holocoust…

I have a pair that has upper part in canvas. They look good and are super comfortable. Sadly, they are discontinued or I would buy a lifetime supply of them.
I wear them ALL the time as it doesn't take much walking to make my feet hurt and these really help. I need to find another pretty pair (really hard to do, most…

I wish I could. My mother turned into a very strange person whom I don't talk to. I guess the crazy could explain placing all those rules, but I think there's more to it. One day I'll need to learn mommying on my own, it would help to have some inputs (or, since our realitonship is so shitty, maybe better not take any…

Finally someone with similar situation! No sleep-overs, only with my friend who's a daugther of my mom's friend. And even that one was very rare. I don't know why I wasn't allowed, though.

But that's the roughly the difference between a good advice and misogynist advice.

Loved it and literally loled trough the article! But it seems there are a lot of fans so someone might explain to me:

Why wouldn't you teach your son the same thing?

I love your tree and agree with your dog - if I had a tree like this I'd spend holidays lying underneath it, admiring it.