Koetting (2014) speaks about \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe ongoing debate on Rroma in Germany. The interlocutors were the South East \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEurope expert Norbert Mappes-Niediek and the political scientist Markus End, as \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twell as the audience. Here, a first problem is created: a listener speaks of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe hospitality of Rroma in impoverished slums in Slovakia. Despite great \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tempathy, the listener reproduces stereotypes, by equating Rroma with a life in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpoverty and a lack of education. She speaks of \u201cordinary people\u201d that met her \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twith much kindness. But that Rroma are not a social class, but rather belong to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tall strata of society, is not mentioned. There are many well-integrated Rroma, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tas the numbers of the Rroma Foundation show. The South East Europe expert \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMappes-Niediek also confirms this false equation of Rroma with an underclass. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHowever, he admits that tens of thousands of guest workers, many of them Rroma, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcame in the 1960s and 70s as guest workers to Germany and have integrated \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsuccessfully. The program shows the problem that one only ever speaks about the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvisible representatives of the minority: the beggars, the slum dwellers, the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcriminals. However, the world consists of more than what you see at first \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tglance: the integrated, invisible Rroma, which make up the majority of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tminority, also build part of it. Regarding the importance of education, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMappes-Niediek notes critically that education in Romania or Bulgaria does not \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnecessarily allow a social advancement, as in Germany, but that the economic \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand social exclusion is maintained in spite of good educational qualifications. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMost listeners use their individual experiences \u2013 negative and positive \u2013 and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tequate them with the \u201cculture\u201d of the Rroma and thus ascribe them a robot-like \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thabitus, which does not do justice to the heterogeneity and especially \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tindividuality of Rroma. Many reproduce the stereotypes of travelling, poor, music \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tplaying Rroma only apply to a portion of the Rroma. Markus End points out that the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmedia convey a highly one-sided, value loaded notion of Rroma: for instance, an \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tInternet newspaper headlined: \u201cNot only Roma come, but also academics.\u201d Through \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat, one undoubtedly assumes that there are no Rroma who are scientists, which \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tis clearly racist.<\/p>\n