I can't say much on the gypsy thing.

But the Italian/Albanian thing here on the forums goes back at least a few years. There used to be a few Albanian posters who would go from board to board and their agenda was to convince anyone and everyone that Albanian organized crime was taking over the world. They would start thread after thread about this theory or try to steer other threads onto that topic. It sort of being an ethnic pride thing for them, they were relentless and caused a lot of problems. It's died down since then but, every time some newbie brings up the whole Rudaj thing, it can sort of flare back up.