{"id":1641,"date":"2013-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/19-04-2013-silence-about-ones-origins\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T08:26:28","slug":"19-04-2013-silence-about-ones-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/19-04-2013-silence-about-ones-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"19.04.2013 Silence about one&#8217;s Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"background-color: white; \">Nadine Michollek (2013) from the K\u00f6lner Stadt-Anzeiger reported on the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmany young Rroma in Germany who conceal their origins. Reasons for this \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconcealment are deeply rooted in the prejudices of the majority towards Rroma, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twhich make it all but impossible to speak about one\u2019s origins. Many fear the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloss of jobs, friends or customers. For Michollek, the negative perceptions and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsome romanticized stereotypes come from movies, operas, and especially media \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treports. Michollek further exposes the problem of well integrated and of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmarginalized Rroma. A first group of Rroma arrived already 600 years ago in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGermany. The Sinti make most of their descendants. Already during the German \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEmpire, the Weimar Republic and later under the Nazis, they were victims of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texclusionary policies. Michollek sees the Sinti as excluded from the labour \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmarket whereas immigrants from the 1960s arriving from Yugoslavia, Spain, or \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTurkey, are described as successfully integrated in the labour market, a statement \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat must be questioned. Sinti tend to demarcate themselves from newer \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\timmigrants which speaks against this statement. The testimony of a young Rromni \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twho explains the problem of silence as follows should provoke some thinking:<\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; \"><em>Sometimes I&#8217;m worried about my apprenticeship. At my workplace, I would \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnot tell anyone that I&#8217;m a Gypsy woman. I was afraid that if something is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmissing, I would be made responsible, that people say, maybe it was so, that is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tindeed one of those. [&#8230;] There are just too many prejudices, for example, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat we steal and lie. My boyfriend and my best friend know. But many of my \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfriends have spoken in front of me negatively on Roma and Sinti, and I just do \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnot want them to think wrong about me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; \"><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michollek, Nadine (2011) Schweigen \u00fcber die Herkunft. In: K\u00f6lner \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStadt-Anzeiger vom 27.10.2011.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nadine Michollek (2013) from the K\u00f6lner Stadt-Anzeiger reported on the many young Rroma in Germany who conceal their origins. Reasons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[597,14,15,594],"tags":[92,211,63,24,23,133],"class_list":["post-1641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-news-eastern-europe","category-news-western-europe","category-spain","tag-discrimination","tag-movie","tag-racism","tag-roma","tag-rroma","tag-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12671,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641\/revisions\/12671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}