Comments on: Who are the Gypsies?

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 01:51:46 +0000

Honestly Im Gypsy && Im Proud
SomePeople Get Wrong Answears
And Hear Wrong Sttuff About Us
We Are Just Normal People Just like Everyone Else
YESSS Maybe In The Way Backk Way Back Centuries
They Stealed Stuff But Thats Maybe Because
No One Aprriciated Them Or Helped Them Because They Where Poor, On The Othere Hand What if Ur kids Are Dying Of
Hunger? Woudnt You Wanna Save Them ?
We Have The Most BEauttiful Souls && No One Can understand,WE Loveee Music
As You Know They Love To Sing And Dance
&& To Be Happy
You Guys Shoudnt Listing What Youve Heard
Maybe Stuff Where like That Iam Not Sure But Now Its Diffrent And You Cant Judge unless You Actually Know The Truth

Thankyou

By: Zen Bonobo

Zen Bonobo — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:30:41 +0000

I like these people. I have met them in all parts of the world. In the US Midwest I especially seek them out toward the end of June and on into July. It is a festive time of year for them and they usually have a lamb on the fire. It is not always easy to find a fresh, properly slaughtered lamb in the land of the supermarket.

In Turkey, it is difficult to differentiate and find them in the more rural areas. There are many wanderers and itinerants in Eastern Turkey. The most usual identifying thing about the Roma in Turkey is their music. It may sound quite similar to all other local performances but it is subtly different. The strains of Rajasthan are more distinctly heard and set it apart from the klesmeric strains of the Middle East.

In the US, I also find them mixed in with the horse racetrack backside help. I also see them at horse auctions. While they now pull their caravans with Powerstroke Dualies, they still have a way with horses.

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:22:22 +0000

“There are lots of things being said and believed that Gypsies do, but here are some myths which are not true.”

Maybe you should’ve asked people who actually live near them for some real life experience. For many people -mostly those who see them from a distance only or in movies or restaurants as musicians- they seem to have a romantic, passionate lifestyle. In reality, this “passion” prevented them from internalizing the minimal requirements of civilization in most countries where they live for hundreds of years (while ALL other ethnicities who arrived around the same time did just that). Ask Finland. Ask Hungary. Nobody who lives near them likes them due to their tribal habits -and simply because most stereotypes are true (they don’t wash, they don’t think it’s a problem to steal from non-gypsies, they are aggressive etc).