When you hear the phrase ‘traveler people’ or ‘gypsies’ you more than likely question what that means, who they are, and where they came from. Many people know nothing of their history, customs, beliefs, traditions, or their way of life.
The Romani people are also known as a traveling people, Roma, and Gypsies. This means people who have migrated worldwide for centuries. "5 Intriguing Facts About the Roma." The Roma originated from India. Although many may speak the language of the country they reside in, they do have a language specific to them. This language is called Romani, an indic language very similar to Hindi. There is no written form of Romani."Gypsies." The Roma traveled throughout Europe and faced years of discrimination. In WWII about 2 million Roma died. They were enslaved, children were abducted, some countries wanted them dead, others wanted them removed. There are
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Families are very close, including distant relatives and inlaws. Most families are large and having multiple children is common. The Roma have specific customs and beliefs when it comes to clothing, and their home lives. Children wear modern kids clothes. Women wear modest skirts, pants typically down to their mid calf. The Roma women show no shame in wearing low cut tops. Married woman often wear scarves on their heads with their hair up in a ponytail or braided. Men wear clothes that reflect authority, power, and masculinity. Everyone excluding children treat clothes worn on the upper body to be pure and clothes worn on the lower body as impure. Men are considered more pure than women, and can be polluted if a woman exposed herself to a man that isn’t her husband. Upper body clothes are washed separately from lower body clothes. The head is considered the most pure part of the body so scarves and hats are washed separately from other clothing. Children don’t have to worry about polluting others or being polluted until they hit puberty.
People that walked ending up dying while they made there way to their new homeland.
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Transnationalism and diaspora have ‘fuzzy boundaries.’ While transnationalism applies to migrants’ durable ties across countries, a diaspora refers to religious or national groups living outside an imagined homeland. One of important features of the diaspora is the refusal to assimilate.
Race has no biological meaning. There is only one human race; there are no subspecies, no single defining characteristic, traits, or even gene, separates one “race” from another. Instead of being a biological concept, race is a social construct, and a relatively modern one at that. It was created to give light-skinned Europeans an advantage by making the white race superior and all others inferior. Throughout its history, the concept of race has served this purpose well.
Descriptions and articles about the Tongue Worms (Pentastomida) - Encyclopedia of Life. (n.d.). Retrieved November 13, 2015, from http://eol.org/pages/2630868/details
The concept diaspora was derived from Greek and means the migration, movement, or scattering of people from their homeland that share the some links or common cultural elements to a home whether real or imagined. The reason why the term ‘diaspora’ is important to understand and is useful because it refers not only because its linked and refers to globalization, linking and connecting place, social consequences of migration, but also, to a form of consciousness and an awareness of home at a more personal level. The feelings, relationships and identities that is often very deeply meaningful to migrants. (Raghuram and Erel, 2014, p. 153 -
According to the 1951 Refugee Convention, refugee is a term applied to anyone who is outside his/her own country and cannot return due to the fear of being persecuted on the basis of race, religion, nationality, membership of a group or political opinion. Many “refugees” that the media and the general public refer to today are known as internally displaced persons, which are people forced to flee their homes to avoid things such as armed conflict, generalized violations of human rights or natural and non-natural disasters. These two groups are distinctly different but fall ...
Ayahuasca is purgative, antihelmintic, and treats spiritual diseases. It is also used for divination for healing and contact with the spirit realm. Iboga is used as an aphrodisiac and stimulant to combat fatigue. It may also be used to treat opiate addictions. It disrupts addiction and reduces withdrawal symptoms. I do not think just anyone should be able to use these plants. The average person may become addicted to using these plants, or not know how much to take. I am open to these plants being used medically, but only by certified professionals at a medical facility. As for religious use, I am more skeptical. Anyone can say "Oh I want to use this plant for religious purposes". Once they get the plant, there's no way to guarantee that person
Sephardic Jews who are they, where did they originate from; and why did they immigrate to America. Sephardic Jews are those decedents that were forced to leave their country to migrate in other areas along the Mediterranean Sea; while joining other indigenous Jews. “Although, Sephardic Jews were the largest Jewish group in the early years in the United States, their community was steadily absorbed into the dominant society through intermarriage and conversion to Christianity” (Scupin, 2012, pg. 164). Nonetheless, In the early part of the twentieth century a second wave of immigrants were brought over to the U.S., more than 24, 000 individuals when severance, bureaucratic turmoil, and counterinsurgency caused major disruption. Nevertheless,
One of the difficult adjustments that Jewish Christians had to face was that of fully accepting Gentiles as equals before God. Most Jews did not have a problem if a Gentile would proselyte to become a Jew, but many considered Gentiles to be unclean, and thus unacceptable to associate and eat with them (Acts 10:28; 11:2–3). Yet, throughout the gospel, Gentiles have demonstrated the greatest faiths. In the episode of the healing of the Centurion’s servant in Luke (7:1-10), centurion indicates his unworthiness to be granted miracle and asked him not to come under his roof as it can cause defilement. Jesus is described to be very surprised at the centurion’s confidence that Jesus can heal his slave and that it can be done with such effectiveness
The Holocaust is mainly recognized as the genocide that intended to exterminate all Jewish peoples. However, the Roma, as well as the Sinti and Lalleri, were also persecuted. The three distinct groups were classified as “Gypsies,” though formally are all grouped under the term “Roma” or “Romani.” Their oppression began long before Hitler’s rise to power, yet the mass murder of the Roma began under the reign of Nazi Germany. Romani people were faced with forced labour, extermination, and extremely harsh living conditions. Romani persecution and murder is classified as a genocide because it went through the eight stages of a genocide. As a European Nomadic group, Romani have experienced true horror throughout their existence and it is our duty to prevent any repeat occurrences.
The terms of interest in this essay are refugees, asylum seekers and Internally Displaced People. Refugee is defined as a person who is outside their home country and are seeking asylum due to a
Europe has been one of the leading powers for many centuries now. Roots of western civilization can be traced back in Europe to the times after the Age of Religious warfare, and the events that took place during this time helped create the modern world. . After the devastation of the 30 Years War, the Treaty of Westphalia was signed and introduced policies such as religious toleration, separation of church and state, more than one major branch of Christianity, and grounds for the rise of the modern state system. The signing of this treaty helped build a platform on which modern Europe was built.
The Travellers, a minority community indigenous to Ireland, have existed on the margins of Irish society for centuries. They share common descent, and have distinct cultural practices - early marriage, desire to be mobile, a tradition of self-employment, and so on. They have distinct rituals of death and cleansing, and a language they only speak among their own. Travellers are not overtly conscious of a sense of group history. Concern with ancestry is an obsession of those who value permanence of place. Rather, the individual is defined by his/her place within the relationship network. They live in extended patriarchal families, prefer trailers, tend to nomadism interspersed with occasional house dwelling, and maintain a nomadic mindset even when settled; a house is considered only a stopping place between journeys, whether the stop lasts 20 days or 20 years! There are an estimated 21,000 Travellers currently living in the Republic of Ireland, over half of whom have no access to toilet facilities, electricity, refuse collection or piped water.
As a point of introduction to the issue at hand, Werbner gives a short literature review describing the ways in which her colleagues had grouped and defined certain migrant groups, with the intention to then critique these classifications. She begins by discussing Ulf Hannerz, who creates three general groups: cosmopolitans; who mix culturally with others, locals; who are indicative of the more Westphalian classifications of culture and nation, transnationals; who travel frequently ...