Romanies: A long road | The Economist
A long roadEurope’s Romanies have a mostly horrible time. But they are thriving in America TOMMY'S International Sports Café, Inc, a makeshift social club on 657 East 189th Street in New York's Bronx, would repay a visit from those Europeans who see their continent's Romanies (also known as Gypsies, see article) only as a lawless and hopeless underclass, in which success means at most building a g
Words not deeds
FEW subjects excite more controversy among Romani activists than terminology. The traditional word “Gypsy” is seen as pejorative by some and inaccurate by others though some Romanies robustly defend its use. Outsiders often use it to mean anyone with a traditional itinerant lifestyle (it retains that meaning in English law). It is now largely out of fashion, especially in bureaucratic circles wher
Hard travelling
Hard travellingScapegoated abroad and the victims of prejudice at home, eastern Europe’s Roma are the problem no politician wants to solve SLOVAKIA is in shock; France in uproar. The cause of both nations' turmoil is the Roma (gypsies), or, rather, what is being done to them. This week a gunman in the Slovak capital, Bratislava, killed seven people and injured 14, before shooting himself dead. Six
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