Yet despite centuries of Gypsy presence, Europe has never accepted this oft nomadic ethnic group and has enacted systematic purges of varying severity since they first arrived on the continent.

尽管吉普赛人在欧洲已经出现了好几百年，欧洲人却从来没有真正接纳这个时常流浪的民族。 从吉普赛人到达欧洲大陆的那一刻起，欧洲人就对他们进行了各种程度的大清洗。

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If you sat down and tried to list all of the ethnic groups they repressed, you would cover virtually every group in Europe except the English, the French, the Dutch, the Italians, and the Spanish.

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