We always hear how bad the Roma neighborhoods in Romania, Bulgaria, etc. are supposed to be. So violence and poverty and dirt and things like that. But I think a lot of it is just stupid propaganda that doesn't appreciate that there's just a completely different culture there. There are the neighborhoods in the cities and the Roma settlements in the countryside, which are certainly different. And all the majority society can think of is that the Roma should adapt. So they should give up their own way of life and traditions and simply become different and no longer be themselves. I think that's terrible.

Are there people here who know these areas better? I don't think it's bad what the reports say about it, but I think the reports are bad. When I think about how people live there, it's just a lot freer and less tied down. Maybe living like this is simply the price of being able to live in this freedom and naturalness and genuineness.