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The Romani Diaspora, Part Two |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Ian Hancock |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/1989 |
| Size: 5,264 Words, 32,513 Characters |
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Coming originally from India, the Roma reached Europe in the twelfth or thirteenth century at the time of, and because of, the Christian holy wars with the Muslim invaders of the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Land. As the newly arrived Roma were thought to be part of that Islamic threat, names were wrongly applied to them that they still bear today: Heiden, Tatar, Egyptian, Saracen, and so forth. All testify to their mistaken identity and account for the prejudice the Romani experienced throughout Europe.
Gypsies first arrived in America because they were sent as convicts and felons, in an attempt on the part of European countries to get rid of them. Portugal began shipping off Gypsies in the 1500s to India, Africa, and South America, and there were Gypsies with Columbus on his third...
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...past decade, deportation and sterilization have been suggested or implemented. International humanitarian organizations are now beginning to investigate and report on the dimensions of the contemporary Romani situation. But as long as the persistence of stereotypes strengthens resistance to the facts about the Romani people, the world's ten million Roma will continue to endure discrimination.
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