# White females, are you threatened by men of color in social situations?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-females-are-you-threatened-by-men-of-color-in-social-situations/564177>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 14, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-females-are-you-threatened-by-men-of-color-in-social-situations/564177 "2010-12-14T23:34:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 45

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-females-are-you-threatened-by-men-of-color-in-social-situations/564177/45 "2010-12-15T05:00:13Z")

</div>

> [@Kyla](#):
>
> I’m not gonna get into it with **ZPG Zealot** , but in my (limited, personal) experience, you’re probably wrong about this, just because Roma teenagers and twenty-somethings are already married. It’s not unusual for Roma kids to get married at age twelve or thirteen.
> 
> It is, and I’ll be blunt, that at least in Eastern Europe, it would be unlikely for a non-Roma to approach and flirt with a Roma person in a bar. You know how in the US, if you violate a superstition, like break a mirror or open an umbrella in the house, they say you’ll have seven years bad luck? In Bulgaria at least, if you violate a superstition, the bad thing that will happen to you is that you’ll marry a gypsy.
> 
> I’m pretty sure **ZPG Zealot** no longer lives in Eastern Europe (although I believe she is originally from somewhere in the former Yugoslavia) so I’m not sure how well the line of separation that exists between Roma and non-Roma there translates to other regions.

I’m originally from Chicago and lived in Yugoslavia while it was in the process of becoming the former Yugoslavia. In the former Yugos a non-Roma man approaching a Roma woman anywhere would either be involved in the black-market or involved in a lot worse.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-females-are-you-threatened-by-men-of-color-in-social-situations/564177)._