kids and us roma: You are currently viewing the topic. By Julia Hajdu My initial interest in Roma topics began with a course in minority rights at a university in Hungary. We discussed issues of origin, education, culture and their place in the eyes of the white Hungarian majority. As a child, growing up in a Hungarian family, the word Roma existed only as the name of a city in central Italy. The peoples collectively known as Roma were known in my household as gypsies. They were dirty, they were criminals, and they were not to be associated with in...