Roma are perceived as a partial society threatening democratic totality

Evidence

The Roma in Europe are perceived as the return of the unruly body, a collective that embodies partial society , whose rules, norms, behaviours do not square with the existing ‘cultural schemes’ of European societies. The creeds, the values, of liberal democracies embody the cultural totality of their cultural schemes. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 115

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Taguieff’s ‘partial society’ concept — groups that exist within but not fully as a national totality, which liberal democracies cannot tolerate.

Related

• Roma are degraded and reminded of their degraded status (similarity 0.83)
• Roma are punished for embodying values central to the European ideal (similarity 0.80)
• Even tolerant people express revulsion-themed hostility toward Roma (similarity 0.79)
• Politicians frame Roma as lacking modern self-expression values. (similarity 0.78)