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ELI5: Romani/Gypsies.

I am a 5-year-old from America, and know nothing about these people.
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The Romani are a people that originally came from Northern India and wandered into Europe about 700 years ago.  They've maintained a nomadic lifestyle and culture that is distinct from the ones that surround them.  The term "Gypsy" is a misnomer that comes from a time when they were thought to come from Egypt.

Their nomadic culture has put them at odds with a number of the agrarian and industrial cultures with which they come into contact, and made them pariahs in the agrarian society they originally found in Europe.  Industrialization found them willing to take any job for any amount of pay, earning them the outrage of the developing working classes--who wanted more money for the same work.  Unions would work to exclude them for this reason, once again putting them at an economic disadvantage (read: making them poor).

As we know about cultures that remain poor for a very long time, they resort to pretty much any means of survival.  The law of the land became secondary to the law of a full stomach.  Thus, they became associated with crime and fraud in Europe.

Some Roma managed to make it to the United States.  They've found themselves better able to integrate here, as our society has some respected transient elements, particularly in the transportation industry.