No La Dolce Vita for Roma Gypsies.

It is truly shocking to see an image of two Roma gypsies lying dead on the beach while other people enjoying their picnic in just a few feet away and not even caring or surprising at all. This just demonstrates of severe inequalities and racial discrimination toward gypsies (minorities) in Italy. Most importantly, gypsies seemed to encounter social inequalities from virtually all aspects including from the basic living conditions (shelter and clothes), health care, education to criminal justice.

As most of blogger mentioned, they definitely deserve help from others. Why? Because they are the most vulnerable population who wandered around and settled at Italy for better life. They are not criminals, beggars or terrorists; they are very fragile population who simply ask for equal access as any other citizens in Italy do. They ultimately became the victims of social prejudice and hatred and perceived as just outcast, instead we should all respect their lives and basic human rights. Moreover, most of them have poor health and no access to the health care; therefore they indeed are in great need of help in terms of food and water sanitation, proper shelters and education. Without someone’s help and support, the next generation of gypsies will continue to go through same phases of intolerable hatred and racial discrimination as previous gypsies.

This just made me think the most vulnerable population in America; they can be homeless, disables, immigrants from different countries, or elderly/ young children. Whoever the vulnerable populations are, instead of rejecting them, we first need to embrace them as any other human beings, and then eventually they would blend in the society. I understand that this easier to said than done; however, we must to mainly focus on most vulnerable populations when we establish health care interventions and policies.