{"id":1538,"date":"2014-02-14T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/14-02-2014-social-perception-of-the-rroma-in-great-britain\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:05:53","slug":"14-02-2014-social-perception-of-the-rroma-in-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/14-02-2014-social-perception-of-the-rroma-in-great-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"14.02.2014 Social perception of the Rroma in Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Yaron Matras, the author \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof the recently published book \u201cI Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGypsies\u201d, talks in his latest article in the Guardian about the social \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tperception and role of the Rroma in Great Britain. Simple employees, such as \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe hairdresser of a friend of the author, are said to be complaining about the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgreater economic competition from immigrants such as the Rroma. In this \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\teconomically motivated racism, Rroma are wrongly equated with Romanians and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcommonly used stereotypes about Rroma are strengthened: \u201c<em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Romanians are equated with Roma \u2013 hence the association with caravans \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand the shyness to appear politically incorrect. [&#8230;] It is the image of Roma \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ton our streets that triggers an emotional reaction, more so than the thought of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tjust any citizen from new EU member states arriving at a job centre in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBasingstoke or Leeds. It was the Roma who were singled out last November by the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdeputy prime minister as &#8220;intimidating&#8221; and &#8220;offensive&#8221; in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttheir behaviour. Unfounded allegations that Roma were kidnapping children in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGreece and Ireland didn&#8217;t help either.\u201c <\/em>The really important question \u2013 and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\there Matras is absolutely right \u2013 is not how to bring the Rroma to integrate \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthemselves, but how to manage to change the incorrect notions of the majority \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsociety about the Rroma. Because if the Rroma are given the opportunity to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tintegrate \u2013 what in most countries is only possible very limited so far \u2013 they \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twill doubtlessly do it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Madras, Yaron (2014) A Roma reality check. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The guardian online<\/em> vom 12.2.2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/feb\/12\/roma-reality-check\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/feb\/12\/roma-reality-check<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaron Matras, the author of the recently published book \u201cI Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies\u201d, talks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[623,14,15,605],"tags":[92,63,24,23,133],"class_list":["post-1538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece","category-news-eastern-europe","category-news-western-europe","category-romania","tag-discrimination","tag-racism","tag-roma","tag-rroma","tag-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11076,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1538\/revisions\/11076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}