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Published: 28.05.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Nationalities in Latvia', 1.
Extract

There are many prejudices about many cultures, but these, who live in Latvia, are Roma, Polish, Russian, Latvian and Muslims, and here are some biases about them;
Roma, these are gipsy, people think, that they are nothing, but cheaters. They steal and rob everything and everyone. They are mostly poor and live in bad conditions.
Their children hate schools and do not attend them. Nor women neither men are virtues, they don’t care about their marriage and care only about their needs. They teach their kids stealing from early childhood and children practise this knowledge all their lives. Mostly every gipsy is in a list at the police, on the subject of a crime. They are talkative, meddlesome, querulous and scandalous people.
But these prejudices are made by people who don’t know gipsies. Our group doesn’t believe that all people are the same, of course they differ and your nationality doesn’t affect your character.

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