Yeah, heard all that before I came here and Italians keep telling me the same type thing.....other than seeing gypsies sitting on sidewalks/in the metro/church entrances and begging for change I've yet to see any of the other stuff. Haven't been to Naples yet but have been to plenty of other locations in Italy....have yet to see the big gypsy problem. As far as I'm concerned it's worse in the states. Couldn't gas up, walk outta walmart without getting hit up six times for $$. I even had assholes knock on my door. Anyways, there's tens of thousands of Roma who are Italian citizens, thousands of others carry passports. I'm sure there's some here illegaly. There are Roma who live within mainstream society....live in houses, send their kids to school, hold down jobs etc etc. See no reasoning in your post to justify blowing someone away while walking down the street.
Alot of that crap sounds real familiar to things said about Italians in the states a hundred years or so ago.
Except for the fact that the vast majority of Italians were hard working productive members of society and the vast majority of gypsies are criminals. I`m not making this up either, go to google and type in Ìtalian Gypsies`and look at the stats. I`m not trying to be racist but we should be allowed to call a spade a spade.
