{"id":1618,"date":"2014-06-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/18-06-2014-rroma-and-blonde-children-racial-prejudices-remain\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T07:33:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T06:33:22","slug":"18-06-2014-rroma-and-blonde-children-racial-prejudices-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/18-06-2014-rroma-and-blonde-children-racial-prejudices-remain\/","title":{"rendered":"18.06.2014 Rroma and blonde children: racial prejudices remain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">The Greek newspaper <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Greek Reporter<\/em> reports on a new case of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpossible child abduction. Neither the authorities nor the journalists seem to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thave learned anything from the case of the blond Rroma girl Maria. Instead, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthey continue to set out from racial prejudice and criteria: a begging Rromni \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin Rhodes is accused to have kidnapped and abused a blonde, blue eyed, male \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tinfant that was with her. Prosecutors demand a DNA test as well as a clear proof \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconfirming the woman\u2019s motherhood (compare Zikakou 2014). The idea of Rroma as \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tchild traffickers exists since centuries, as critical literary studies have shown. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThey are the projection of distrust on the Rroma, who just arrived in Europe, and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twere accused of paganism and a criminal disposition. These prejudices are an \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texpression of uncertainty in contact with a new group of people who through \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttheir mere presence question the rigid power structure of medieval society. However, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma converted shortly after or even before their arrival in Europe to \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChristianity and clearly demonstrated their willingness to integrate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zikakou, Ioanna (2014) Blond Child Found with Roma \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFamily in Rhodes. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Greek Reporter \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tonline<\/em> vom 15.6.2014. <a href=\"http:\/\/greece.greekreporter.com\/2014\/06\/15\/blond-child-found-with-roma-family-in-rhodes\/\" style=\"font-family: Arial;\">http:\/\/greece.greekreporter.com\/2014\/06\/15\/blond-child-found-with-roma-family-in-rhodes\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greek newspaper Greek Reporter reports on a new case of possible child abduction. Neither the authorities nor the journalists [&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],"tags":[658],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greece","category-news-eastern-europe","category-news-western-europe","tag-beggars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618","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=1618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13165,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618\/revisions\/13165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}