{"id":1377,"date":"2014-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/06-08-2014-stereotypes-rroma-as-patriarchal-and-misogynistic\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:42:37","slug":"06-08-2014-stereotypes-rroma-as-patriarchal-and-misogynistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/06-08-2014-stereotypes-rroma-as-patriarchal-and-misogynistic\/","title":{"rendered":"06.08.2014 Stereotypes: Rroma as patriarchal and misogynistic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

M\u00fchlenschulte (2014) \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treports on a ten-day German-language course at the Wisseler lake in North \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRhine-Westphalia, which was organised by the youth organization Lalok Libre. Among \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe 35 children aged 4 to 17 years, there were 30 Rroma children. The article \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttries to show integration efforts of recently immigrated Rroma families, but \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treproduces numerous negative stereotypes and prejudices by equating Rroma with alienation \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfrom education, high numbers of children, patriarchal structures, and with poverty. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThat a lack of education and high numbers of children are the result \u00a0of poverty, a phenomenon that exist \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tindependently of ethnicity, is not discussed. Therefore, a one-sided notion of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma as poverty immigrants is mediated and erroneously equates socioeconomic \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcircumstances with culture: \u201c\u201cYou have to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trespect women girls\u201d, says Venetia Harontzas to two Roma boys. \u201cThe girls here \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmust be like your sisters!\u201d […] Worlds are said to collide at the Dresden \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstreet\/corner Grillostra\u00dfe, reports Harontzas. But also among the Roma there \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbig differences, she states. The majority are cooperative. \u201cActually, these are \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tkids like everyone else, they just grow up in another community\u201d, the Lalok \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpresident states. In a society in which women are often only seen as breeding machines, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand girls are getting their first child at the age of 14, their second at 16, and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmany more would follow. The Roma Matei Rostas confirms this. \u201cA sensitive \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tissue\u201d, says Harontzas. Soon one wants to talk with the Roma families about contraception, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhich is often a foreign word to them, she states.\u201d<\/em> There are also many \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twell-educated Rroma who do not conform to these stereotypes. Especially in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGermany, where a majority of 110,000 to 130,000 Rroma have been living \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tintegrated for generations and are represented by the central council of German \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSinti and Roma to the public. Unfortunately, they are almost never discussed in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe media. Contraception has nothing to do with ethnicity, but is influenced by \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe level of education and sometimes by religious affiliation. In addition, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnotions of cultural traditions such as an early age of marriage or the role of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twomen should be treated with caution, since they apply only to traditional \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma and are subject to social changes. Therefore, Rromni often have considerable \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinfluence in their families, especially women after the menopause. The \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsupremacy of men has more representative character than that real hierarchies \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twould exist.<\/p>\n