every holocaust memorial day, i always ask people to keep romani people in their thoughts, but this year iād like to clear up some misconceptions that i see every year w/ a psa
romani people are not white. weāre south asian (from northern india), and each subgroup has a unique racial makeup of asian/white/etc, in different amounts. this is also why we vary wildly in physical appearance/skintone
we still face oppression.Ā what we face, especially in europe, can still be constituted as attempted genocide, as weāre forced to live in hazardous conditions or to give away our children, be sterilized, etc just for the crime of being roma
theĀ āg slurā isnāt just an american issue. the reason some european roma preferĀ the slur is because, in many countries, there is no term for roma that isnāt a slur, and itās either the g slur or the literal translation of the n word. iām romanian, and if you used the slur in my hometown, youād get slapped, since we just useĀ āromaā.
we live in every continent across the world.Ā some of the largest romani populations exist in south america, predominantly in brazil. they are no more and no less roma than their european counterparts, and they, like romani in asia, africa, etc all face unique challenges and oppression.
weāre the largest ethnic minority in europe, and yet have almost no political power, no land ownership power (in some places, weāre forbidden from owning land entirely), etc. with very few reputable charities- a lot of us reject charity by principle, as well as there being a general lack of education about us- the best thing you can do to help romani people is to just spread information, and help individuals when you can.
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