The Romanies And Gypsies

The changing environment throughout time has caused many families to move out of their homelands. These families are either forced to make the decision to move out, or they move by their own desire. Migration and parenthood in a new country are significant transitions that pose stressful challenges for immigrant and refugee parents. Although living in Canada can be rewarding, however, there are challenges that immigrants and refugee face through trying to adapt to the culture of Canada. These challenges may include, battling cultural shock, Language Barriers, Misconceptions of Homeland and culture, employment, and depression.

Some Roma hide their ethnic identities because it can be dangerous and bad for their business because of the stereotyping that goes along with being a Roma. Also, depending on the community, they may be threatened, attacked, or discriminated again.

From 1939-1945 millions of people were persecuted all throughout Europe. One of those kinds of people were the Gypsies (or Roma). The Gypsies were a members of traveling people. These people traditionally made a living by trade and fortune telling. In Germany the Nazis considered the Roma as genetically inferior. The fate of the Roma was very similar to the one as the Jews. In the concentrations camps the Roma were forced to work and mass murdered. On September 21, 1939 Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Reich security main office met with Security Police and Security Service officials in Berlin. He intended to deport 30,000 German and Austrian Roma from the Greater German Reich to the German part of Poland. The governor of the German

The figure group The Gypsies is Charles Vyse’s first venture into the genre of the Romany (Fig. 57). In the nineteenth and early twentieth-century true Gypsies or Romanies, considered a separate nomadic people, possessing a language, customs, and beliefs. The women, categorized by flamboyant clothing, extravagant songs, and dances, and the men, branded roguish thieves, and horse traders. Moreover, popular interest in gypsies came through literature, theatre, and film, engendering the nostalgic vision of a pastoral people refusing to integrate into the society of the day. Gypsies, colourful inhabitants of fairgrounds and racetracks would become subjects for his figures, creating a new genre. The modelling of the group invokes

Gypsies are nomads (Leeson, 2013). The nomadic nature seems to be a central point of departure that defines the gypsy way of life. Although, the modern Roma people no longer travel in caravan and have blended in with the locals, the sense of independence through travel still is reflected in their way of life (Romanian Family Health Initiative, 2007), for example, many Roma men choose occupations that lets them travel and be on the road (Matras, 2000).

For Anzaldua, any borderland is “a place of contradictions” (preface 19), rendering border residents to suffer from constant insecurity and perplexity as they struggle to keep their multiple identities intact. Nonetheless, as she writes

In order to understand the lifestyle of Romanian Gypsies as an indigenous group, this paper will provide insight toward their distinctive subculture, survival means, ability to withstand racial discrimination and unethical living conditions. Historically, Gypsies have been mistreated and isolated within various cultural settings. Their societies have a terrible reputation for theft, begging and lack of schooling, causing a divide amongst the population. Remaining far below the poverty line, these individuals do whatever it takes to survive.

In Europe there was over four hundred ghettos in operation, The first ghetto was Łódź in 1940 and was also economically important to the Germans because of Łódź textile production. Warsaw was the largest with 400,000 Jews living there and Łódź the second largest with 160,00 Jews. There were three types of ghettos in operation: open, closed, and destruction. Open ghettos were ones with no walls or fences and restrictions on leaving and entering. Closed ghettos were the most common and had walls and/or fences in place. These were always overcrowded and disgustingly unsanitary. Destruction ghettos were around for a very short amount of time and the entire population was either shot or deported. Starvation was guaranteed with diets in some places

Gypsies' connection to fortune telling dates back to the time of Persian invasion. It's quite an ancient practice. Nowadays, most of them are popular for their psychic ability, as well as their ability to condemn life with a curse.

The beginnings of persecution come from hatred. Hatred comes from the growth of fear. People for time immemorial have been devastated by the growth of rampant fear that’s projected onto their race, religion, ethnicity, and culture. Under the Soviet Block, the Roma people were subject to harsh persecution and demonization as a result of their society that was not compatible with the communist regime. In Czechoslovakia this fear almost caused the destruction of an entire people, a culture, a way of life. The outcome of this persecution was widespread destruction of the Roma culture within Czechoslovakia, and had it been allowed to continue, potentially lethal. Roma people came under intense scrutiny from both the government and the citizens

The diversity of this minority group can be said to be their most characteristic feature. While often conceptualized as one homogenous group, the Roma consist of a multitude of various sub-groups, which carry with them their own practices, beliefs, and often, language (Filcak 2007, page 63-64). Although incredibly diverse in traditions and culture, the Roma are joined by a common thread of kinship. While conventional society is predominantly spatially bound, the Roma people do not bind themselves to spatial or ethnic terms, but rather to kinship and family. Members of a particular kin group avoid social contact with other non-family members, considering only members of their clan to be ‘ritually pure’. The unity and homogeneity ascribed by others does not serve to foster a sense of community and

쀀䩀垛na Richardson (1969) said of Bohemians in The Bohemians: La vie de Bohème in Paris, 1830-1914, “…they had maintained the right of the poet and the man of letters to escape the social system, to follow a personal moral code, to create his own environment, and develop his originality. They had asserted the right of man to live as he chose..." (p 21.) Bohemians were young artists in the 19th and 20th centuries who desired to experience the world in an alternative way. There were many types of bohemians all who had different attractions to and reasons why they participated in bohemian life. Those who joined bohemia dealt with a life filled with beautiful rewards and painful costs. The unconventional bohemian lifestyle and values went on to

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.

The Gypsies, who originated from India, are also known as the “Roma”. They are similar to Nomads, moving from one place to another. Within this group of people, there is a clear division between the men and the woman. In the book The Gypsies by Jan Yoor, they are separated by gender and age through adolescence, puberty, and through adulthood. This is seen specifically in the responsibilities or tasks given to both genders. The women are in charge of household duties. This includes things such as cooking and cleaning. On top of having these tasks, they also have the main responsibility of raising the children, usually the father, will help raise the boys into men. Woman also

The continued disparity between the Romani communities and mainstream Slovak society has been further highlighted recently by their children now being forced to attend ethnically segregated mainstream schools and classes. The continued investment in so-called “container schools” can drastically hinder the Romani children’s ability to advance to a higher education. It can also become a hurdle preventing this community to gain sufficient employment to survive and therefore be a full contributor to the country they call home. By looking at the Republic of Slovakia under the following headings; political, military, economic, social, infrastructure, information, physical environment and time (PMESII-PT), gaps can be seen that continue to allow for human rights issues like that with the Roma today to be in the forefront.