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Europeans when asked about the Romani
Europeans don't actually talk about Romani all that much. The whole situation is still a big problem, the discrimination is real, a lot of people have old uninspected misconceptions, there are people who have active hate in their heart, but it's not a topic on anyone's mind. It's a small minority (~2% of population) that, ironically, lives in pretty compact communities predominately in south-eastern parts of Europe, and it's just not a thought that crosses most people's minds.
The actual racism that exists in Europe is mainly comes against refugees from muslim countries, not Romani, you need to update your mental hatemap.
Are you using "hatemap" to mean Lodemike's view of Europeans, or European's view of minorities?
This is also accurate about Americans.
fuckin shame innit.
Isn't it USA that invented a word "gypsies"?
Oxford states that the first known use of Gypsy was in 1514. It was popularized by Edmond Spenser and Shakespeare and has its entomological root from the Middle English word gypcian due to the misbelief that Romani people were from Egypt.
So, to answer your question, no. The only Europeans in the Americas at this time were the Spanish.