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• Gypsies.
• The Gypsies originated in India. ...
• Gypsies dislike outsiders and tend to live on the road. ... It is thought that Gypsies enjoy stealing and consider personal posessions to be fluid. ...
• Gypsies exist in the United States, generally living motor homes or on motorcycles. ... Whether the people apprehended for these crimes are actually gypsies or not is up for debate. ...
• Gypsies are one of the few racial groups in which decidedly non-ethnic people can lie about belonging to. ...
• Gypsies are also one of the few remaining ethnic groups considered socially acceptable targets of open racism. Many a small town police blotter features the escapades of people "who appeared to be gypsies" wrangling their way into the homes of the elderly and stealing their priceless Hummels. ...

• among the Chergari Gypsies.
• It is the tsigan mahala, the ghetto of the Gypsies, a place where social and economic conditions continue to worsen while the country is trying to form a more democratic society after 45 years of Communist rule.
• Far from the image of wandering, mystical fortune-tellers of the West's collective stereotype, Gypsies are becoming the scapegoats for escalating social and economic problems such as unemployment and climbing crime rates. ... Gypsies are the largest minority population, with an estimated eight million scattered throughout Europe. ...
• As the next generation of Gypsies comes of age in Bulgaria, it is apparent they are slipping into a cycle of poverty that not only threatens to hamper economic and social reform attempts, but also the very nature of their culture. Many young Gypsies do not speak their native language, Romany, banned for years in schools and public places and today widely ridiculed.
• Nationalistic attacks in the form of pogroms, police attacks and discrimination are leading many Gypsies, especially the young, to lie about their ethnic heritage; many claim to be ethnic Turk rather than "admitting" they are Gypsy.
• In 1958 the Bulgarian government took this away by forcibly settling Gypsies into collective farms or in housing projects, contrary to their traditional lifestyle. ...
• The community of about 1,200 Gypsies in Blagroevgrad, a medium-sized city in southwestern Bulgaria near the Macedonian border, illustrates the reality Gypsies are facing throughout the country. In the poorist parts of this community, nearly 80 percent of Gypsies are unemployed. Many Gypsies have resorted to low-paying occupations such as street cleaning or gathering scrap iron to sell.
• As in Blagoevgrad, most Gypsies nationwide live in ghettos on the outskirts of the city, comprised of poorly constructed houses lacking running water. ...
• However, Gypsies will continue to fight a quiet war, and Bulgaria will lag behind in social and economic reforms until broader understanding of the ethnic minorities can be reached.
• Her work with the Gypsies was done in part to earn her Master's degree from the Missouri School of Journalism. ...

• Gypsies refuse to be forgotten.
• Half a million gypsies perished in concentration camps .
• BERLIN (CNN) -- Of the millions of the victims of the Nazis, gypsies are perhaps the most forgotten. ...
• An estimated half million European gypsies perished in concentration camps at the hands of the Nazis. ...
• For the most part, however, gypsies have received nothing. ...
• So many of the gypsies died before and they didn't have any possibility to get restitution," says Thomas Lutz of Aktion Suehnezeichen. ...
• In the past several years, gypsies have become better organized than at any time in the past thousand years, since they first wandered out of India. ...
• In a summer campsite outside Berlin, Sinti gypsies live in an area funded by $300,000 from the city's senate. ...
• Gypsies say they need a special place to congregate. ...
• "As soon as Germans know we are gypsies, we have no chance of getting a job. ... But if customers find out we're gypsies, they won't even let us in their homes," says gypsy Robert Laubinger. ...
• The darkest time in Germany for gypsies may be long gone. The problem is, gypsies say, they're also for the most part forgotten. ...
• On Gypsies .
• Gypsies in Auschwitz .
• Gypsies in Auschwitz Part 2 .

• Gypsies.
• Gypsies actually came from India, but the word reflects the belief that they came from Egypt. ... The gypsies were told to go back to Spain, which is where Bohemians apparently think they came from. ...
• This is understandable, as gypsies have in Spain a well-earned ill reputation. Many European countries are now cracking down on gypsies trying to gain admission. ...
• The priests admitted them, but the families of other children protested that the gypsies would teach their children bad habits, and the children boycotted the school, Only the three gypsy children attended. ...

• Romani people, commonly known as Gypsies, have been in the Americas since 1498, when Columbus brought some on his third voyage to the West Indies. Their subsequent forced transportation brought most Gypsies across the Atlantic. To understand why Gypsies were shipped to the American colonies, it is necessary first of all to examine the circumstances of their presence in Europe. They arrived in the Balkans from India in the middle of the thirteenth century because of the spread of Islam into the Byzantine Empire; the ancestors of the Gypsies had in fact left India in the first place during the first quarter of the eleventh century as troops resisting Islamic incursions. Gypsies were at first associated with the Muslim threat. ... Gypsies originating in this part of Europe are known collectively as Vlax (x as ch in German Achtung), and are divided into a number of distinct groups, depending upon their occupational or regional background in the Balkans. ... There, strict laws came into effect rooted in fear of the foreign intruders; Gypsies were the first people of color to come into Europe in large numbers-their descendants there today number about eight million. ...
• During the colonial period, western European nations dealt with their "Gypsy problem" by transporting them in large numbers overseas; the Spanish shipped Gypsies to their American colonies (including Spanish Louisiana) as part of their solución americana; the French sent numbers to the Antilles, and the Scots, English, and Dutch to North America and the Caribbean. Cromwell shipped Romanichal Gypsies (i. ... , Gypsies from Britain) as slaves to the southern plantations; there is documentation of Gypsies being owned by freed black slaves in Jamaica, and in both Cuba and Louisiana today there are Afro-Romani populations resulting from intermarriage between freed African and Gypsy slaves. Other well-represented Romani populations in America include the Bashaldé or "musician" Gypsies who immigrated after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Xoraxaya or Muslim Gypsies from Turkey and southeastern Europe, the Lovara, a Vlax group mainly from Poland, and a number of smaller groups. ...
• Being of Indian descent, Gypsies have retained an Indian cultural and linguistic heritage as well; Romani is widely spoken, and is certainly one of the healthiest immigrant languages in the country, transmitted from generation to generation with little danger of dying out in the foreseeable future. ... In Romani there are right and wrong ways to prepare food, for example, or wash clothes, or interact with other people, especially non-Gypsies (called gadjé, singular gadjó), who have the potential to "pollute. ...
• Unlike the situation in Europe, where Gypsies are much in evidence, Roma in the United States have been called the "hidden Americans" because they remain by choice largely invisible. There are two reasons for this: first, the United States is made up of minority groups of all complexions, and so it is easy for Gypsies to present themselves as American Indians, Hispanics, or southern Europeans, and they usually do this rather than identify themselves as Gypsies. ...
• Various occupations are represented among the Romani Texans; some are traditional, such as stove and boiler repair or fortune-telling, but other Gypsies include musicians, teachers, university professors, and a documentary filmmaker. ...

• GYPSIES: TRAPPED ON THE FRINGES OF EUROPE.
• Across Europe, Gypsies live in dire poverty and are frequently the target of violence and racism. ...
• More than 60 per cent of Romania’s Gypsies are said to live below the poverty line and 80 per cent have no formal qualifications. In Bulgaria, the same percentage of Gypsies living in cities are jobless. ...
• Why, despite repeated attempts to assimilate or exclude the Gypsies over the past 600 years, have they remained cut off from other peoples and for the most part, pushed to the fringes of society? After all, not every group of people who came to live in Europe has been systematically ostracised. ...
• Many Europeans no doubt frowned upon the Gypsies’ working habits: how they sought out jobs each day, their trust in luck, their spontaneous way of approaching strangers and their persistence. ...
• These few examples go to show that Gypsies were not excluded because of a deep-rooted failure to adjust to local .
• The contrived image of the Gypsies as an idle, roaming and dangerous people was one of the devices—along with violence, coercion and ideology—that was used to help forge the national identity of peoples belonging to specific territories with well-guarded borders. ...
• It contributed to a culture of mistrust and resistance towards gadjes (non-Gypsies).
• Even though the Gypsies had been the long-time economic and cultural partners of European peoples, they were always kept out of political decision-making, though it can be questioned whether they were interested in becoming involved at this level. ... Some closed off from the world and scratched a living on the edge of gadjo society, while others took another path, making contact with non-Gypsies as best they could.
• The tendency to exclude Gypsies grew steadily throughout the 20th century. ... These days, Gypsies are confined to a limited number of parking plots and camping grounds that are often ill-equipped for the needs of travelling families. ...
• The Gypsies were shipped en masse to work in menial jobs on collective farms and in state enterprises. The lack of political attention to the Roma’s culture—their ancestral language, their education geared to sharing and their economic flexibility stressing income from odd jobs—and the crying indifference to the xenophobia that developed towards them, did not facilitate the assimilation of young Gypsies into the socialist societies.
• In a sense, this new marginalisation, which has produced emigration movements towards a utopian El Dorado (namely western Europe), is simply another consequence of the political and nationalist attitudes that have harmed the Gypsies time and time again in the past. Gypsies often have little lifeline outside their communities, which are refused any territorial rights by the host societies. ...

• Lucien Clergue: Gypsies.
• During the mid-1950s Clergue initiated his photography of the cultural life of the European Gypsies. A significant presence in Arlesian culture, the Gypsies were treated with prejudice by dominant society.
• While Clergue's photographs of the Gypsies document cultural life, they do not function as ethnography. ...
• Clergue photographs the Gypsies as they perform for themselves. Holding themselves outside and above dominant culture, the Gypsies maintain a grasp upon rituals and traditions familiar only to their own. ...

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• We are a bit eclectic, but so are gypsies. ...
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• Zamora's Gypsies .
• Us gypsies are not readily accepted in England. ...
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• Gypsies: The Other Americans .
•          The first cinema verité study of Gypsies (Roma) in the United States, this award-winning film ethnography depicts the culture and traditions of a Kalderas tribe of Gypsies living and working in Los Angeles. ...   Nevertheless, the old attitudes of prejudice, antagonism and fear that have plagued ethnic Gypsies for centuries remain, while the newer demands of modern American society must also be confronted. ...   Edited ethnographic film sequences not included in Gypsies: The Other Americans are available in a companion video entitlted, Gypsies: Out Takes. ...
•   GYPSIES: THE OTHER AMERICANS .
• GYPSIES: THE OTHER AMERICANS .
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• Other Films about Gypsies (dmoz Open Directory Project) .

• 5 million "enemies of the German State" who were murdered under equally inhumane circumstances -- criminals and asocials, the insane, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, political criminals such as communists and socialists, and Gypsies. Estimates of the number of Gypsies murdered run from a high of 500,000 to 600,000 (Jan Yoors, 1971:34) to a more conservative figure of 200,000 (Martin Gilbert, 1981,). There has been some debate regarding the inclusion of Gypsies under the subject of the Holocaust since they were persecuted prior to the Holocaust as political criminals and as "asocial" (cf. ... There is some evidence that prior to 1942, Himmler favored sparing a couple of gypsy tribes which had been defined as "pure gypsies. " However, by December 16, 1942, he ordered all gypsies in Germany deported to Auschwitz.
• The deportation of Gypsies was placed under Himmler's authority in 1942 and he ordered their extermination. ...
• Who Are the Gypsies? .
• It is not only in the highly romanticized versions of popular lore that the "Gypsies" are shrouded in mystery; scientific accounts of their origins reflect some degree of uncertainty as well. ... Another interpretation claims that they acquired the name "gypsies" from their settlement in the Greek Peloponneseus near a village named "Gyppe" (see Burleigh and Wippermann, 1991:331n). ...
• The Evolution of Nazi Policy Toward the Gypsies.
• By 1926 Bavaria had passed the Law for the Combating of Gypsies, Travellers and the Workshy (literally, the work-shy), requiring the Rom to produce documentation of regular paid employment. ...
• There was a general belief in Germany, even among ranking party officials, including Himmler himself, who believed that there were "pure Gypsies" who were most likely Aryan and many "part-Gypsies who were, therefore, part German. ...
• Gypsies were later labeled as asocials by the 1937 Laws against Crime, regardless of whether they had been charged with any unlawful acts. ... By May 1938, SS Reichsfuehrer Himmler established the Central Office for Fighting the Gypsy Menace, which defined the question as `a matter of race,' discriminating pure Gypsies from part Gypsies as Jews were discriminated, and ordering their registration. In 1939, resettlement of Gypsies was put under Eichmann's jurisdiction along with that of the Jews.
• Ritter's explanation of how the Gypsies came to be of "inferior blood" is a startling example of science driven by ideology. The Gypsies who left India in the 10th century, Ritter argued, were pure Aryans. ... He recommended the segregation of all gypsies and the sterilization of those who were of obviously impure strains. ...

• Europe’s Roma (Gypsies).
• | Gypsies feel lash of hatred | Europe’s nomads | Roma Holocaust | Web links |.
• This year the British tabloid press has whipped up hatred against gypsies in the context of the Tony Martin case and the issue of asylum-seekers. ...
• Gypsies feel the lash of everyone's hatred .
• The plight of Europe's Gypsies has worsened dramatically in recent years, with increases in racially motivated attacks against them, and rising levels of unemployment, evictions, and even exclusions from their home towns, according to a major new report. ...
• Prepared by Max van der Stoel, the OSCE's high commissioner on national minorities, the report came out yesterday on the eve of Roma day, which marks the anniversary of the first international Roma congress in 1971, when Gypsies managed to succeeded in putting their problems on the international agenda. ...
• In Bulgaria, 14 Gypsies died between 1992 and 1998 while being held in police custody or as a result of police shootings. ... The worst violence has occurred in Kosovo in recent months where tens of thousands of Gypsies have been forced to flee their homes and take refuge in camps guarded by international troops. The collapse of communism across the region and the fall in living standards led to widespread joblessness, with Gypsies often the first to be fired. Drops in income forced some Gypsies to sell their homes. ... Private landlords often refused to let to Gypsies. ...
• In 1998 the mayor of Evosmos in Greece ordered the eviction of 3,500 Gypsies from an area that had been their home for 30 years. ...
• The report highlights one encouraging development - a housing project in Kremnica in Slovakia for Gypsies and non-Gypsies. ... In the main, the use of "special schools" has been aimed at excluding Gypsies from mainstream education, but the report mentions one school in Pecs in Hungary run by Gypsies, and aimed at developing a Gypsy intelligentsia. ...
• The report condemns involuntary segregation but says that European governments should consider supporting pre-school programmes for Gypsy infants and "booster" programmes for Gypsies in ordinary schools. ... Mr van der Stoel recommends several measures, from better training for the police in Gypsy issues, including the recruitment of Gypsies into the police, to laws providing for higher sentences for crimes motivated by racism. ...

• There were Gypsies (Roma) in this area along with the very earliest settlers. ...   It is recorded (South Carolina Department of Archives and History) that Gypsies were in South Carolina with the earliest settlers. ...
• Anyone with information on Gypsies or Travellers in this area please contact me. ...
• Good references on Gypsies (you can purchase the first two books from Amazon. ...
• Bury Me Standing : The Gypsies and Their Journey (Vintage Departures) by Isabel Fonseca. ...
• The Gypsies (Peoples of Europe)  by Angus Fraser. ...
• The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain, by George Borrow (published in 1843) Complete text on line! (from Project Gutenberg)(I would not consider this a good reference, but it was available for posting. ...
•  These folk are often confused by locals as Gypsies, although they are fair of complexion and unrelated to Roma. ...

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