Romani people

petty theft or begging up to World War II. These conditions worsened in the Protectorate. Being an ethnic minority and, by national socialist standards, classed as racially inferior, the Romani people were a clear target and part of the Third Reich's goal to purge Europe of all "impure races". Hence, anti-Romani propaganda and measures, which would finally turn into a genocide, started soon after the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and continued throughout the war. On November

Since the arrival of Romani people to the British Isles, the figure of the Gypsy has been controversial by being an object of both fear and desire. The word ‘Gypsy’ evokes a series of images of people and their way of life. For some, Gypsies are synonyms of criminals and fortune-tellers, appearing as a threat for the civilization. For others, they remind a nomadic life in nature exempt from the restrictions of the settled society. This dichotomy has categorized the Romani people as ‘the exotic other’

Family Relations in Roma Culture within Transcultural Model Communication The official language of the Roma people is “Rromanës,” or Romani. Where your patient may speak English to some degree, or even fluently, they still may not answer your questions because of the Roma “cultural prohibition [of] giving too much information to a Gaje (non-Romany)” (Galanti, p 42). They may look to older relatives to speak for them, and make decisions about, their care (Honer, 2004). It may be of a benefit

437,000 to 12,702,000 people were executed in the period of 1942-1945. That is killing 2,109,250 to 3,175,500 people a year! A majority of the people familiar with the Holocaust think that only Jewish people were persecuted when in fact there were many more groups of people, these groups included Slavs, Serbs, Soviet POWs, Romani people, colored people, the disabled, homosexuals, Freemasons, Spanish republicans, Gypsies, the mentally ill, and Jehovah's witnesses. These people were executed because

Romanies once again crumbled and went into a state of poverty. Through researching the Romanies, we learn of the hardships they went through and how strong they are. Even though they are all separated worldwide, they still share a bond stronger than people who immigrated without any problems. Romanies should gain political sovereignty and have a country of their own where they are free from discrimination and hate crimes. Romanies, translated to “person” from an Indic root, are an ethnic nation whose

Abstract This paper explore the Roma culture with focus on women’s health practices. Roma also referred to as Rom, Rroma, Romani and gypsies are people traveled across the Middle East and Europe, with some later settling in the United States. Known for their nomadic lifestyle, they are often marginalized and discriminated against. Roma have strong cultural beliefs with many focusing on the importance of family and purity. Many aspects of pregnancy are considered impure and shameful. Many women

Empire tried to integrate them into the peasantry and make them a positive aspect of society. They were forced to abandon their nomadic lifestyle and many of their horses were shot. The Gypsies were not allowed to speak their native tongue, which is Romani, and their children were instructed in the Christian religion. While many of these policies worked they were not regularly enforced and the

Peter Szuhay asked in "Constructing a Gypsy National Culture" whether the Gypsies are an ethnic culture or a culture of poverty. I would like to argue that the Gypsy identity is a product of traditional ethnic culture as well as the product of a marginalized social stratum. There are many aspects of gypsy ethnic culture to which can be contributed to the result of marginalization and sometimes those same ethnic cultural traits become stereotypes to which society justifies their stigmatization and

The Roma, (or Gypsies, as most call them), are intricate, interesting, vastly different, and intriguing group of differing people with a lot of things in common including a surprising fears: frogs and chickens. Religion is a belief system with stories about supernatural forces and rituals that give people attitudes and behaviors to follow with an arrangement of the society. The Roma culture fits this definition because they have many myths and traditional supernatural beliefs they fall back on to

meeting in Munich on 24th February 1920. These 25 following points of the party remained unchanged until 1945, when the party was dissolved. 1. Nazis wanted the Germans to be united by promoting self-determination and their own objectives among all people so that the goals of party can be achieved easily. 2. The one of the main aim was to abolish the Treaty of Versailles because of the clause of war guilt that was imposed upon them and to provide equal rights to the Germans like other nations. 3. Another