The article does take a "gypsies are a big problem and it's probably their
fault" view though I don't think you would have to look too far in the
American press to find analogous views. I think of all the rhetoric about
Mexican immigrants in California. What's kind of frightening to me about
these views of the Roma is that this is what they say in the "progressive"
media. You think about where does the information come from and what
questions look like they're possible to ask, and what questions are not
audible. I was thinking that in the end the situation for the Roma is the
effect of EU capitalization and development, and the fact that it looks like
just the Romanians (or the Slovaks) are too fascist and backward not to deal
with the Gypsies this way, that perception too is kind of an effect of
German and French and English rhetoric.
But what do I know, having not been out of Wisconsin in months.
> it is interesting... but you know, this article... this is akin to
> saying, all blacks live in ghettos.
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> even with the quotation marks the author of the article uses, i
> suppose, to denote his ironic detachment from what is being said by
> the officials he talked to... even with that. were this article have
> appeared in an american magazine - substituting any other
> economically disenfranchized american minority for "roma" - what
> would the reaction have been, you think. an article of this kind can
> only have appeared in a european journal.
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> yes, there are many romanian roma beggars. but i do not see any
> mention of the romanian roma migrants who are *not* beggars, who have
> lost their jobs in romania - they were the first to lose their jobs
> due to the ah, economic restructuring of romania - and thus are
> forced to try to get to another country, in an attempt to find work
> in order to support their families back home.
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> so that bugs me. but then again, i am *such* an extremist... grrr
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> some of the other articles are quite good tho... i liked the
> interview with ilona varga... anyways, i sure am looking forward to
> reading the whole interview with her in that guy's e-book. she is
> good.
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