What's with this hate thing?

I'm a little confused by good people.

I visited the Ovidiu Rom center at a local elementary school in sector 5 yesterday. Catalin, a Roma staff of the organization was my personal translator and showed me around. Afterwards, he invited me to have dinner with his Roma fiance and her family. The family, the fiance--everyone--was wonderful. We laughed, we joked, we ate.

He eventually asked me where I was originally from and I told him China. He told me there were a lot of Chinese in Bucharest and they all lived in an area known as Europa. He then laughed and looked at his fiance and told me that she doesn't like the Chinese people here. I asked why and they explained that Chinese people kill other people and hack them into pieces before stuffing them into bags! (Hm, hopefully I've altered that mentality a bit now that they've hung out with a Chinese who doesn't kill.) When they asked me more about the US and my life, they were surprised to find out that people of different ethnic backgrounds could be good friends and even more, they could date!

So I was thinking through this: The Romanians HATE the Roma people. The Roma people HATE that the Romanian people HATE them. However, the Roma people HATE the Chinese. Can there be just a little less hate please?!