Although this word is more common in Europe (in America "anti-gypsyism" is preferred) it is understood throughout the Spanish-speaking region as the "rejection of the Roma community due to racial hatred", which even includes discriminatory laws by governments. It is formed by the prefix anti- ("opposite, rejection") the root tsigan (for "gypsy or gypsy") the suffix -ism ("quality").
ZIGANISM Ziganism comes from Gypsyism, which comes from Gypsy, which comes from Egyptian, name that was given to the Gypsies and other ethnicities from northern India, but who were losing the oldest memories and remembering Egypt as their last and oldest origin. Roma have been rejected in Europe and anti-Ziganism is frequently used in a restricted sense to signal anti-Gypsy attitudes or the expression of negative stereotypes in public space or hate speech.
