Hi Fellows...
One thing also that makes things in the US so different, is that the Vlax are a complete cultural isolate, so their old system still works. There is no statistical instance of murder, maybe 6 in the history of Roma in the US, no abondonment of children, rich full lives for the elderly at home, care given mentaly difficent members without the institutionalising of them... but the courts often believe the myth that they are a criminal underworld. We also have a romanichal and pavee community, also much more of a cultural isolate then in the UK, It is not so much a matter of enimy here, as the first stage of an invation that in eastern Europe resulted in herin adiciton homelessness and horrors beyond belief when the Kris (roma courts) and familia (extended family) and vitsa (tribe) was lost. Before we think of taking a sledge hammer to something that works, we better have a better offer! In England, I have seen that there has been a different history, as in Ireland, and the two host nations are in a different stage of interaction.
Keep up the well meaning work,
Develssa, hai sastimos, hai Baxtalay
Larry