Friday, May 2, 2014

Romani and their Neighbors

This is a particularly hard post to make because of the nomadic lifestyle the gypsies live. I almost feel like I'm forcing this... because I've already said that gypsies are notorious for being a very hated group of people. It's a shame because they are hated because of "judging a book by its cover," but it's just the way it is. People tend to get the impression gypsies are up to no good because they are always moving from place to place and sociologically speaking when a person is of a lower status and isn't as presentable, you tend to associate them with negative traits. Like gypsies have been in so many countries, are so spread out that this topic just isn't doable. When they've gone to countries to settle, places have passed laws forbidding them to ever come back into their country. Anti-Romani laws are passed in Switzerland, Germany, France, Denmark, Brazil, Flanders, Scotland, Bohemia, and Lithuania. Hitler thought they were a lesser people, and had them killed along with the jews in the Holocaust. I can't stress enough how much they just didn't get a long with people. When they originated in India, their neighbors (Muslims) invaded and took over their land, forcing them to migrate for safety. Gypsies are there own neighbors, they are trapped in their own world and probably for their own good because people have and still probably would be cruel to them. So, in short, I feel because of the nature of the gypsies you can't really classify who there neighbors are, because it is each other.

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