In this article, Jardar Alai explains the longtime discrimination of the Romani people.
Romani is a community that settled in Europe in the 11th century. They are also known as Roma and Gypsies. In Europe they have been seen as outsiders, lazy, drunk and dirty people, because of this reason they have been discriminated against. They were also killed during the holocaust. The stereotypes and the persecution of Roma is still happening under the new and liberal Europe. The SUN is a British newspaper that wrote an article about the Roma beggars in London 2012. The title of that article was named "Dirty, Drunk and Defiant .... meet the Romanian gypsies defiling Park Lane". Here they used inappropriate language describing Roma as a community. Romania promotes a stately discrimination policy on the Roma.
Roma earns less money than their Romanian counterpart. Romani people have a very hard time finding a job. If a Roma tries to get a job, they will not get the job because they have a reputation of being lazy and drunken. Romanian business owners don’t hire romani workers since they do not want their reputation to be questioned. The Romanian government is taking away Roma houses and land that they have been living on. This has left Romas without home and many on the streets without sources of food and water and income.The government is claiming that the Roma do not have ID and paper of residents and if they do that are fake documents. The Government has tagged Romas as Criminals. Because of old rumors about Roma, they took away their homes and that has forced Romanis to find other sources of income. With a lack of income, Romani children are not able to continue their education. Most stop their education after elementary school. If the Romanis leave Romania, they are still being hated and discriminated against in other European countries. Most People know the Roma as criminals and lazy, but most people fail to understand the struggles that the Roma community are facing in Europe specially Romania. They have also failed to understand that most Romanis are not the stereotype of the Gypsy.
sources:
Vice news (2014) The Struggle for Survival of the Roma People: Europe's Most Hated 27.11.2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALdlphTYdi4
European Roma right center (2003) BEING A "GYPSY": THE WORST SOCIAL STIGMA IN ROMANIA 27.11.2020 HTTP://WWW.ERRC.ORG/ROMA-RIGHTS-JOURNAL/BEING-A-GYPSY-THE-WORST-SOCIAL-STIGMA-IN-ROMANIA THE SUN (2011) Dirty, drunk and defiant…. meet the Romanian gypsies defiling Park Lane 27.11.2020 https://www.thesun.co.uk/archives/news/624141/dirty-drunk-and-defiant-meet-the-romanian-gypsies-defiling-park-lane/
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