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	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Roma people
		The Roma people (pronounced "rahma," singular Rom, sometimes Rroma, and Rrom) along with the closely related Sinti people are commonly known as Gypsies in English.
		The Rroma are popularly known in English as Gypsies or Gipsies, a word which is derived from Egypt, from a former belief among outsiders that they were natives of Egypt.
		People recognizable by other Roma as Roma still live as far east as Iran, including some who made the migration to Europe and returned.
	fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Roma_(people) (2510 words)

	The Rroma People
		Rroma have the intention of changing many of the circumstances that negatively condition their own existence and they also want to promote the customs that make them feel a people united in their rich culture and diversity.
		The few Rroma people who still live as travellers all over the european continent see how their movements are conditioned by the numerous legislations and ordinances that veto the right to camp in the public terrains.
		Among the efforts to improve the Spanish Rroma people quality of life and to promote their culture it is remarkable the task of Juan de Dios Ramírez-Heredia, Rrom, member of the spanish Parliament since 1977 to 1985 and of the european Parliament (1986-94) as well.
	www.unionromani.org /pueblo_in.htm (4124 words)

	Roma people - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Roma people (pronounced "rahma," singular Rom, sometimes Rroma, and Rrom) along with theclosely related Sinti people are commonly known as Gypsies in English.
		The Rroma are popularly known in English as Gypsies or Gipsies, a word which is derived fromEgypt, from a former belief among outsiders that they were natives of Egypt.
		People recognizable byother Roma as Roma still live as far east as Iran, including some who made the migration toEurope and returned.
	www.encyclopedia-of-knowledge.com /?t=Roma_(people) (2038 words)

	RomNet
		Being designated as "Rroma", which is an endonyme, this is one of the aspects of this right in the eyes of Rroma activists.
		Since the "Tsigani" or the "Gypsies" are not a people, but a social group, stigmatized as such by the majority population, it is a non sense to think about "Gypsy language", as it is a non-sense to use the politically correct vocabulary while using the plural for "not discriminating" and speak about "Rromani languages".
		Putting them into the category "Rroma and Rroma related groups" means to refuse them this right, and to impose them, as well as to Rroma, the status of a social group, characterised by the marginalization.
	www.romnet.hu /hirek/eng0310242.html (1455 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Our people are still fighting for basic needs in their life, as food and housing, while the thousand year-old prejudices of non Rroma are transformed in skinhead movement and new asylum policy of the developed countries.
		Rroma are fleeing from each country where they face discrimination, no matter if it is a developed or developing country, they do not react in any way to the violations.
		To start constructive dialogue with existing Rroma networks and leaders For this initiative it is necessary to ensure that relevant and competent Rroma activists are selected, and at the same time it will give them responsibility and motivation to work for the benefit of own population.
	www.unhchr.ch /minorities/statements/RHAS3b.doc (706 words)

	Talk:Roma people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It seems reasonable: parents wouldn't want other people to know that they had abandoned their children, so if they were recognized when grown up, parents would accuse gypsies of kidnapping them.
		People being surrounded by groups of "gypsy children", some of whom distract the tourist while the others steal a wallet, are fairly common in Rome, Seville, and even some cities in Greece.
		It's odd that such a long article has practically nothing to say about Rroma lifestyle, such as social and economic behavior, considering that this, along with their mysterious history, is generally regarded as by far the most interesting aspect of the subject.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Roma_people (13625 words)

	The Patrin Web Journal - Rroma (Gypsy) Self-Identification
		In this contribution, she discusses recent moves by the Romanian government to officially designate the Rroma or "Gypsy" population as "Tigani" and the moves within that community to self-identify as Rroma, moving toward use of the double "R" spelling.
		In the Rromani language, self-identification involves the word "Rrom." When encountering other Rroma, "Are you Rrom?" is asked, not "Are you Gypsy?" The designation as "Gypsy" is related to the old belief that the Rroma came from Egypt, though studies of the Rromani language in the late 18th century revealed their Indian origin.
		In non-English speaking countries, the Rroma are usually referred to as Zigeuner, Zingari, Tsiganes and other variants stemming from the Greek word "Atsinganoi," which was actually a religious sect in the Byzantine Empire, unrelated to the Rroma yet attributed to this "foreign" population.
	www.geocities.com /paris/5121/rroma.htm (1240 words)

	Coaching Travel Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		A Rroma can be situated somewhere between somebody who is assimilated and does not speak the Romani languages and some body who is very standoffish to citizenship.
		It is also a social psychological evidence that people manage their thoughts in a way that make the live bearable: I do not depend on them who abuse me. And when I am not related to them, I can lie to them and steel from them.
		So some Rroma could be too shamed about their colour and ethnicity and some Rroma could have an isolating proud and a great but undermining self-esteem.
	home.hetnet.nl /~f3brinkman/rromaE.html (574 words)

	Rroma Gypsies
		The reality for many Romani people or Rroma today is life in internment and refugee camps, because even in the twenty first century, and after more than a millennia or persecution, Europe's nomads, the Romani people remain unwelcome and unwanted.
		The Rroma flag is dark blue on top (representing the heavens) and green below (representing the earth) with the red wheel image represents a sixteen-spoked chakra in the centre (in recognition of the Indian origin of the Rroma), representing movement and the burst of fire from which all creation emerged at the beginning of time.
		Discrimination against Rroma in employment, education, health care, administrative and other services is observed in most societies, and hate speech against them deepens the negative anti-Rroma stereotypes which are typical of European public opinion.
	www.eaglespiritministry.com /works/romani.htm (1521 words)

	The Patrin Web Journal - A Brief History of the Roma (Gypsies)
		As the ethnically and linguistically mixed occupational population from India moved further and further away from its land of origin (beginning in the 11th century), so it began to acquire its own ethnic identity, and it was at this time that the Romani language also began to take shape.
		But the mixture of peoples and languages didn’t stop there, for as the warriors moved northwestwards through Persia, they took words and grammar from Persian, and no doubt absorbed new members too; and the same thing happened in Armenia and in the Byzantine Empire, and has continued to happen in Europe.
		In some instances, the mingling of small groups of Roma with other peoples has resulted in such groups being absorbed into them and losing their Romani identity; the Jenisch are perhaps such an example.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/5121/history.htm (2128 words)

	Topica Email List Directory
		In spite of the historical split of the Rromani people into three main branches known respectively as Rroma, Sinte and Kale, all this population shares basicly a common North-Indian origin (the imperial city of Kannauj in Uttar-Pradesh) and a common cultural and linguistic heritage.
		Whereas some ten millions Rromani people are living in Europe and three millions in both North and South America, hardly one half of them have a real command of the Rromani language under whatever form of its dialects.
		The Assembly is also deeply concerned about the revival of racist feelings against Rroma, Sinte and Kale, in almost all countries of Europe, and condamns such attitudes, including in the cases when their are allegedly « justified » by a fear of the Rromani population, whether « local Gypsies » or refugees.
	lists.topica.com /lists/AvenAmentza/read/message.html?mid=1712652858&sort=d&start=892 (2384 words)

	Please Call Me Rom
		I was born in Pristina, in the region of Kosovo, in southern Serbia.
		Czechoslovak citizens." The reason was: Rroma having nomadic roots were moving and many of them had birth certificates from Slovakia but had settled for 10 -20 years in the Czech Republic; so they didn't have papers from the region where they lived, which then became a new State.
		Rroma today in Europe (Europe's largest minority) are a threatened group, a population without land; (which follows from Rroma never having tried to conquer others or to kill in order to acquire a piece of land.
	members.aol.com /Ghaziya/rom.html (1581 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online
		For a people with no written history and a century of migratory existence, its unity is amazing and owes much to the power of the gypsy music.
		Though the Rroma people often took the religion of the country they migrated to, they've kept up many old Indian traditions, including an entire book of conduct, or laws, that can be found from Russia to Spain.
		The Rroma people have been relentlessly persecuted throughout history and repeatedly pushed to the fringes of society.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1999/mar/03-24-99/arts/arts7.html (557 words)

	Book Review: Bury Me Standing
		I have chosen to use the word "Rroma" to refer to the race of people that have been historically known as the Gypsies.
		Some portrayed the actual people that Fonseca interviewed, and others were of people she didn't explicitly describe.
		The painful circumstances of the people it describes are very intense, and I found I could only read a bit at a time before I had to put it aside.
	www.shira.net /bookrvws/bury.htm (1168 words)

	Encyclopedia: Star Wars
		Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society.
		At the beginning, people went, "Don't you like it?" I said, "Well, the film only came out to be 25 or 30 percent of what I wanted it to be."...
		At the end of the middle episodes in the trilogy (Episodes II and V), the main protagonist (Anakin in II, Luke in V) puts his arm around the main female character (PadmÃ© in II, Leia in V) beside the two droids R2-D2 and C-3PO.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Star-Wars (11610 words)

	Report St. Petersburg
		Very few people know about the history of this people and about the persecutions that it have suffered by, like the slavery in Romania until the middle of 19th century or the nazi genocide committed against them during the Second World War.
		The Chechen people were not against Russians, but the war was so terrible that there is now hatred everywhere, especially in the troops where young soldiers saw their friends killed.
		Rroma should be accepted as part of the society and be given the opportunity to study, but some participants declared themselves against separate schools for Rroma.
	www.united.non-profit.nl /pages/repstp.htm (8047 words)

	RELIGION AND CULTURE OF THE ROMA (ALSO KNOWN AS GYPSIES, ROM, RROMA, ROMANI, RROMA)
		The Roma people originally lived in north west India, and migrated to Persia from 224 to 642 CE.
		Our young people cannot find jobs and our complaints to the police are ignored.
		In the past, people were typically married between the ages of 9 to 14.
	www.religioustolerance.org /roma.htm (2474 words)

	Exquisite Corpse
		But when it came to the question of the Rroma people, they were literally submerged too deep, drowned as it were in a culture of stereotypes.
		People who ignore the status of slave to which the Rroma was relegated for centuries in my view have no understanding of how that image has been indelibly stamped in the psyche of the society.
		Some clans who hold themselves in very high regard as a people quite distinct and superior to other Rroma believe that discrimination doesn't affect them because they do not possess the negative qualities of the other Rroma, and they tend to agree completely with the criticism and stereotype of their unfortunate brethren.
	www.corpse.org /issue_1/parham.html (1960 words)

	Struggle for the Control of Identity 7
		Sometimes the Romani cultural and linguistic presence was sufficient that the newly-encountered populations were absorbed and became Rroma in subsequent generations; sometimes the Romani contribution was not sufficient to maintain itself, and other, non-Romani populations such as the Jenisch emerged.
		The truly remarkable thing is that it has been possible, despite this kind of incorporation of outsiders and despite the lack of a national territory, to maintain a linguistic and cultural cohesiveness which stretches back for a thousand years.
		Many of the problems which Rroma are having with non-Rroma are rooted in the vague and muddled notions of who and what Rroma are, and what the Romani experience in Europe has been, and what Rroma have contributed to European culture.
	www.osi.hu /rpp/perspectives1g.htm (1287 words)

	Book Review: The Rom -- Walking In The Paths Of The Gypsies
		Although he can't support them with historical documents stating, "The Rroma did this because...." his conclusions are an interesting interpretation of the facts that he was able to substantiate about events affecting the regions as a whole.
		This part of the book was very difficult to read, because it told a story of many centuries of persecution, including slavery that was just as heinous as the acts perpetrated on the early African-Americans, persecution during the Spanish Inquisition, and near extinction in the gas chambers of Hitler.
		But Moreau's story of the Rroma would have been incomplete without covering those horrors, and it helped me understand why I've heard people say that the Rroma lived with many hardships over their history.
	www.shira.net /bookrvws/gypsies.htm (794 words)

	The success of the Romanian model in Rroma education and in teaching Rromani as a mother tongue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		It is to be found in the strategic programme of building up a new Rroma intelligentsia, which will represent in the future the model for the Rroma people ‘s aspirations and motivation in order for them to re-define their identity on modern grounds and in a specific way.
		It is known that the Rromas ‘ choice was not for a monolingual education (that is, all the subject to be taught in Rromani), but for the optional teaching of the 3 to 4 weekly hours of Rromani in grades 1st to 12th,including beginners.
		The inspectors for the Rroma who first nominate them for an “acquaintance course” do the recruitment and involvement of these teachers (the summer schools on Rromani and the methodology of teaching it), which are necessary for them to be accepted as unqualified teachers.
	www.edu.ro /invrrom_b1e.htm (7586 words)

	Romania--Centre for Rroma Youth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The Centre of Rroma Youth of the third sector in Bucharest is a resource centre which offers services in the information field, documentation and access to the employment market, for the Rroma young people.
		The Centre of Rroma Youth is organized and functions based on the partnership between the Ethnocultural Rroma Projects Organization, the Minister of Youth and Sports, and the City hall of the Sector 3, with support of UNICEF-Romania.
		Informs the Rroma Youth in domains that are related with aspects of Democracy, Human Rights and National Minority’s Rights, Mass Media, Education, Culture, Sports, Health, Protection of the Environment, Legislation.
	www.civilsoc.org /ece/romania/rromayouth.htm (363 words)

	WCAR Cauces pages
		We urge states "to acknowledge wrongs done during the Second World War to Roma communities by deportation and extermination", referring to which the Rroma name for their tragedy is Porajmos", and consider ways of compensating for them".
		We recommend the United Nations to establish, under its jurisdiction, a Permanent Rroma Forum, as a representative body of Roma experts, to be referred to for any issues related to the Roma situation in the world.
		The housing estate is now nearly 100% Romani, and houses approximately 4000 people who all live in appalling conditions in which disease is rife, rats are evident, and electricity, heating and basic sanitation are unavailable entirely or for months at a time.
	www.icare.to /caucus/roma.html (12304 words)

	UNDP Romania - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Our presence here today reflects not only our recognition of the important place the Rroma people have in Romanian society, but also our commitment to supporting national efforts directed at improving the situation of the Rroma.
		The Rroma people are facing increasing problems, which are not driven by one factor but many, spanning borders across Europe.
		Such an integrated approach should be based on the National Strategy for Improving the Situation of Rroma, which the Romanian Government adopted earlier this year, and which provides a coherent and dynamic framework for effective intervention.
	www.undp.ro /news/news7.php (525 words)

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