improvements for their relationships with other communities. Therefore "after seven .
centuries, anti-gypsyism has become very deeply ingrained in the Western tradition, as .
folktales, proverbs, and folk belief attest." ( Hancock, the introduction of the book of The .
Gypsies of Eastern Europe, 1991).
" The gypsies have inherited certain cultural behavior from India because that was .
forbidden to use town pumps or wells, denied water by fearful householders, so uncleanliness .
becomes a part of the stereotype. ( Hancock, the introduction of the book of The Gypsies of .
Eastern Europe, 1991) thus they couldn't obey the local cleanliness traditions. As a result of .
this, they face with some trouble such people are always kept them at arm's length. Therefore .
nobody even want to attend a conversation with a gypsy unless they have to. Same thing .
happens in hairdressers of course. In addition to relationships between people, the prejudice .
on gypsy people can be seen easily in health system. Even most of the hairdressers don't let .
a gypsy to enter thier shops. In the same way doctors and health crews behave similarly. Of .
course these negative attitudes cause some serious problem in health system. Mostly gypsies .
haven't got adequate health care to decrease the infant mortality rate which is fifteen times .
higher the national average in Britain. (According to the 1983 report of the Save the Children .
Fund) and a life expectancy rate is fifteen years shorter than the national average in Hungary .
(According to the World Press review for October 1983) as well as the life expectancy is .
between the ages of forty-eight and fifty-five for american gypsies. (According to medical .
survey conducted at Harvard University, summarized in James D.Thomas "Disease, Lifestyle .
and Consanguinity in Fifty-eight American Gypsies) the only reason for these result is the .
horrifyingly poor environmental conditions. Because their living sites lack of basic comforts .