SLSL 'Low-lands' racism?

[Otto]

"All right, there were gypsies around. He remembered back in his childhood
that they used to camp out on the deserted areas of beach along the north
shore. He thought by now they had all gone; somehow he was glad they had
not. It suited some half-felt sense of fitness; it was right that there
should be gypsies living in the dump (...)." (71.27-33)

Presenting gypsies as some midgets living with the rats in the dumb, is this
racism or isn't the text somewhat revealing about our own prejudices if we
see nothing to object to in this image. Like Flange we all have some
romanticised imagination of gypsy-living (on the beach) somewhere in the
back of our minds while at the same time as grown-ups we accept that gypsies
are treated as social waste, in fact are a marginalised and discriminated
minority.

Otto

"Gypsies" in the United States
http://educate.si.edu/migrations/gyp/gypstart.html

Welcome to the never ending Road Well-Travelled!
Gypsies of the Americas
http://foclark.tripod.com/gypsy/roma.html

"Roma were the only other population besides the Jews who were targeted for
extermination on racial grounds in the Final Solution."
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5121/holcaust.htm

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