Afraid to say "I'm Roma"
More than 500,000 people in Romania declared themselves as Roma in the 2002 census, but Roma leaders estimate that another 1.5 million Roma did not. This greatly affects the Roma population because it limits their access to government funding that is necessary to improve their lives. In Prislop, a small village in central Romania, where almost all of the 300 residents are Roma, none declared themselves Roma.