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Please stop projecting your American racist past on others. Roma were never banned from going to school, quite the opposite. They never had separate facilities, were not orders ro ride at the bsck of buses etc, etc. They, as a group, just don't care for education as that doesn't relate to their lifestyle. There exist individual Roma who are very successful, so the system doesnt in any way stop them from doing it, but that is uncommon.[/quote]

Isabel Fonseca (Martin Amis' wife or maybe ex-wife by now) begs to disagree with you. Read her book, [u]Bury Me Standing[/u]: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=isabel%20fonseca&sprefix=isabel+f%2Caps&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aisabel%20fonseca&ajr=2. I'm sort of stunned by your claim that there are no institutional barriers to the Roma, it's only that they "just don't care for education."

That said, I agree with the people saying that upward mobility has become more difficult in the US.[/quote]

This book proves nothing - there have always Europeans trying to import the latest American fad into their countries. The American experience just doesn't apply - at all.[/quote]

Looks like you haven't read Fonseca's book. And what on earth could you mean by "Europeans trying to import the latest American fad," as if removing institutional barriers to the Roma is a [i]bad [/i]thing. Besides, you're off on some tangent about American history =/= European history when everyone else is talking about whether there is diversity in [i]today's [/i]European universities.  I feel I will have to ignore everything else you write in the future as being totally off point and useless.[/quote]

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