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Roma are often perceived as a homogenous group and many times they are reduced to their ‘Gypsyness’. They are not perceived as individuals but simply as ‘Gypsies’. Some people can produce the most outrageous stereotypes about Roma but then claim that they know one ‘who is not like that!’. Talking badly about Roma damages all Roma including the one who is supposed to be ‘different’. Roma who do not fit the image that others have about ‘Gypsies’ are often not perceived as Roma. In reality there is not a single Roma who could meet all the stereotypes that exist about them.