Gypsy Culture

What is a family? How are families shaped and what effect do they have on society? In the United States a family consists of both parents, one’s self, siblings (biological or adoptive) and extended family members; however, this is not the case around the world. The concept of family and who is family changes in each culture, but is mostly centered around who is kin and who a person marries. Family, kin, and marriage are established through how society decides their lineage, which establishes cultural rituals within the society.

This culture reacts to sickness differently than other cultures. It is traditional to have a long list of natural remedies and herbs that can cure illness versus going to the doctor and taking medications. They believe there are specific causes that lead to catching certain illnesses such as if you sit on the cold concrete as a woman, it will freeze your ovaries, and that will result in infertility (Wells 2014).

The Baule feel there is another world which exists simultaneously with the world of the living. This otherworld is the spirit world called the blolo. The blolo is the point of origin for the spirits of the deceased and of newborns. In order to communicate with these important spirits, many people of the Kongo have objects referred to as Minkisi (the plural of Nkisi) which harness the power and spirits of those who have died (Stokstad 890). Minkisi were used for centuries as tools for punishing criminals, curing illness, combating witchcraft or solving other problems. Some minkisi acted nice while others were meant to be violent.

The Gebusi are patrilineal and therefore their lineages follow the men in the clan.it is ideal for the men to marry a woman from another clan, when this happens the man’s sister is exchanged to the other clan and the new wife becomes part of the man’s clan. This display of reciprocity is primarily used to make sure that the same amount of women in each clan remains constant. By 1998 this was no longer the case, the Gebusi women did have a choice in who they married and the men had a rather hard time trying to find a wife because the women could be so

The main gender roles that are described include the males job is to being the bread winner, which means he provides the financial support and the females’ job is to stay home to look after the kids and do the house work. The male is the dominant one in a family, if a female is not just married her father is dominant but when she gets married the dominance is transferred to her husband. When the father gives his daughter away at the wedding, which means he’s giving up control and dominance of his daughter to her husband. An example of the husbands having dominance is that the wife has to ask for approval to drink alcohol.

1.3 Analysis of legislation, society and culture made available by services for Travellers and Gypsies

Scheffel argues, the Romani immigrant living in the settlement life is marginalized, stereotyped, and discriminated against by the villagers’ “white only” policy. In order to understand the Roma’s plight, he goes into local folklore to give historical context about the Romani genealogy presence in Svinia by using birth and death records to describe the first Roma couple to migrate to Slovak. To support his argument, Scheffel richly describes the Roma primitive huts, deplorable living arrangements without electricity and plumbing, illiteracy, demeaning work such as feeding pigs or shoveling manure. Scheffel discusses the portrayal of Roma as greedy scavengers, rummaging through the trash, waiting for the clothes of the deceased, seeking discarded furniture, and waiting for slaughtered

The 1996 Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples reports that residential experiences have created generations of aboriginals that have lost their cultural identity, spirituality, language and sense of identity (Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, 1996). In 1972, the National Indian Brotherhood issued the written policy Indian Control of Indian Education which gave Aboriginal communities leading control over their schools, parents full responsibility for their children's education, and addressed the importance of a culturally based curriculum (Kim, 2015). Since the policy was published, many aboriginal communities are now operating their own schools, and language and cultural

With the increasing multicultural population developing cultural competency has been a dynamic challenging process for healthcare providers to find a common ground between the individual and provider and is the goal for delivering holistic, cultural sensitivity care throughout every health care setting (Engebretson, n.d.). Throughout this paper I will discuss the four generations by defining and describing them, explain which group I belong to and how I fit within that generation group. I will further discuss another group which I do not belong and explain how each generational group can learn from each other.

For many years now, the future of Aboriginal culture has been ripped from our arms, forced to give up a traditional lifestyle and move into white Australian towns and cities. Children who have been taken from their parents, have had their names changed, been taught to reject their Indigenous heritage and made to adopt white culture. In the process of all this, they are being made to forget their own culture and are forbidden to speak their own language. Already this has had a traumatic effect on our people, their identities and their links with Aboriginal culture.

In the 1960s and 1970s, as a new generation of Jews rose through the ranks, what it mean to be Jewish became even more muddied. The War had been over for years, (visible) anti-semitism was on the decline, and Jewish life was undergoing a radical shift. Previously, Jews had to focus on acculturation; now, Jews were part of American culture. Jewish comedians spoke to the American culture at large and many preferred to avoid the Jewish label — they were Americans who happened to be Jews. At the same time, there were pioneers, like Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl, who created a new, more free-wheeling style of comedy, mixing their life experiences with social and political commentary. Comedians like these were typically outsiders and mined their feelings

Negev Israel is home to multiple tribes of Bedouin people. The current traditional Bedouin tribes that now reside here have roamed the deserts of the Middle East for hundreds of years, with travel routes extending from the Sinai Peninsula and into the Negev as well as areas that are now located in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Alongside the history of Israel is another story of how these nomadic societies have had to deal with politics and social interactions in this fairly newly formed state. As a result of forced sedentary lifestyles, the creation of the state of Israel, and numerous encounters with wars and government policies, these Bedouin groups have had to change the way in which they conduct daily life and reestablish their self identity

The Aborigines are one of the oldest, unaffected cultures that remain in our world today. Their historical culture and territory, in the past, was unaffected by the constantly evolving world. Until recently, their historic society has remained sacred, yet today they are undergoing a colossal fight. The Australian government and uranium mining industries are attempting to build new mine fields, bullying Aborigine tribes and their leaders into ultimately selling their land for future nuclear waste dump sites.

There were many topics that held my interest but many have already been fully fleshed out in academic literature. Something that has not been fully explored and still debated is the relationship of the settled Franks and the native people of the Levant. The crusades were nothing less than a full on invasion into a foreign and harsh landscape with minimal knowledge of the culture and landscapes they would have soon encounter. It was incredibly important to the survival of the initial crusaders and then the crusaders states that they had to adapt from their own European customs to those of the native Arab populations. The Crusaders became a ruling minority, but not without the Arabization of their own culture into something that became unique

There are many types of people in the world who do not have specific states that they call their homes. Many people like this have fought and still continue to fight to make it so they have their own place to call home. An example of these people are the Romani people also formerly known as the Gypsies. The Romani people are associated with what is called a stateless nation. A stateless nation is defined as a national group that aspires to become a nation-state, but lacks the territorial means to do so. The Romani people are nomadic people which causes them to be all over the world. Because they are known to be all over the world they don’t have their own state where they can practice their historical cultures, their cultures, and their political organization/ government they follow.