Good analogy, Shambles!
As with the PEL laws, the fact that the system does damage, great damage, the few good people working within the system are blamed for the failure of the system. This is not a generalisation, it is the observaton of one who has to pick up the bodies, quite litterally. YES! There are social workers, who like Ms. Shambles and Morticia care and try to do no harm, in fact, it was such a social worker who brought me in to help Columbia University's program begin to understand Roma. But, look at it from my point of view, this particular branch of social science, rather than argueing for diversity, has established White Euro-American culture as the only norm in the courts in which I labour, This is the definition of racialism. To say that your norm, no matter how old, no matter how successful, is wrong, a vestage of the past, that our norm, with our abandoned children, drugs, old people's homes, prositution, murder, is the only norm, and your system, you Vlax Roma, that in the US do none of the above, is abnormal and we will shatter your cultural (and I would argue national) institutions with no concern over the fact that in Europe where this was done, Roma suffer not only from anti Gypsy prejudice, but have fallen into the worst case of being sub working class ruined societies.
I think a few good social workers feelings are worth examining the trend. I end again, with thanks to those like Morticia who try to understand, but we MUST change this terrible system of bending other societies to look like ours. Open doors, but don't shove folks through them.
CHeers and END THE PELS! & Roma OPRE!
Larry
(PS Roma opre... Roma Stand up!)