The Internal and External Image of the Romani (Gypsy) People
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- A Bit Of Context: I've spoken about this interview for YEARS!!!! And I've finally found the footage on an old hard drive I thought was dead. This is an interview I did in 2014 with Romani scholar and community advocate Professor Ian Hancock (University of Texas at Austin) after my visit/interview with the Romani community in Romania. This was one of my first on camera interviews ever so be gentle. lol. I have four other videos from this interview so please check those out as well. For more information on Professor Hancock check here.
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Do you believe poverty is cyclical in minority communities? What can be done to solve this issue if so?
the gypsy population is not from Romania, they came here long time ago from India and Pakistan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people
Separation and self identification.
yes. he stated that in the video.
what do you mean by this?
it's absolutely 100% cyclical. I think the only way forward is education. There are plenty of Roma in the West (Ireland, UK, Sweden) that migrated thanks to EU free movement and now have good jobs and are nowhere near poverty. The difference was that those countries have incredibly strong social and educational systems in place that make sure that schools employ assistants that help Roma children and cater for their specific needs. In Slovakia, oftentimes the kids' first language isn't Slovak and Slovak schools are not capable/willing of giving enough attention to these kids so they could learn proper Slovak. So these kids obviously underperform and end up getting sent to special disability schools that in many cases end up as pretty much segregated Roma-only schools. So there's very little Roma people who make it to university and if they do, they very often face discrimination there, so many end up frustrated and dropping out. It's often the same people who say "I have no problem with the good Romas, who work, etc." that would never rent to a Roma person. There was recently a case in Trnava (one of the larger cities in Slovakia) where they had a catholic ceremony called the first communion (something like confirmation in protestantism) and the white parents refused to have a Roma girl sit up front with their kids... It's these sorts of things that make my blood boil. Even if a person makes it out of the vicious cycle and gets a good education and a good job, they have to deal with this type of frustration.
awesome, Hancock should get a nobel
He's brilliant
Very interesting, I need to learn more
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I'm a white dude from Slovakia and we have a sizable Roma minority (around 9-10%). I was astonished just how similar the prejudice and hate towards the Roma is to what I read about the treatment of Blacks during the 1960-90s in the US. All the child support crap, "they don't want to work", etc. It's like someone copy-pasted the same lines and replaced "Blacks" with "Roma" (or Cigan, most people would consider "Roma" a PC term). What's interesting about the c-word is that a lot of Roma self-identify that way, at least in Slovakia and Czechia. In my experience, most of the hate comes from places that have 0 Roma population (when you look at support for nationalist anti-Roma political parties, etc.) I think we have a long way to go.
VERY similar treatment of both communities.
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interesting!
Creation & sustainability of businesses owned by members of impoverished groups would help. When I was a little girl, I could go to several stores owned by African Americans. Unfortunately we couldn't sustain those businesses because we didn't understand the effects of "Can I get that on credit, I'll pay you when I get some money."
You're not going into Gucci and walking out with ANYTHING on credit.
Poor people can't own & RETAIN what they own until they're EDUCATED...about economics, business, long term goals & investments, CAUSE AND EFFECT & education begins at HOME.
The fault lies not in our stars, the man or the Internet but in ourselves.
I cannot speak for Romani or other groups, but my ancestors literally risked life & limb learning how to read, to write, in short to educate themselves so as not to be taken advantage of. Somehow we have to find ways to make that important again.
People forget the sacrifices those who came before us made to provide us with the opportunities we have. At the foundation, education can solve many issues in marginalized communities. Which is why is usually the first thing attacked and restricted.