{"id":1849,"date":"2013-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/31-05-2013-rroma-in-post-socialist-romania\/"},"modified":"2022-08-05T09:26:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T08:26:39","slug":"31-05-2013-rroma-in-post-socialist-romania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/de\/31-05-2013-rroma-in-post-socialist-romania\/","title":{"rendered":"31.05.2013 Rroma in post-socialist Romania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Cartarescu \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(2012) provides information on the situation of Rroma in post-socialist \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRomania. He notes a massive dumbing down and dehumanizing among sensationalist \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmass media and their consumers. The eviction of a Rroma settlement is commented \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tby a TV channel with the statement that this eliminated \u201ca source of danger and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof hostile acts against society\u201d. In connection with the blatant racism against \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma, Cartarescu reminds of their enslavement in Romania after their arrival \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfrom the East. But that it is this forced settling which led to today\u2019s Rroma \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tplight, and eradicated their culture and beliefs, as Cartarescu writes, is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thistorically doubtful, as nomadism can only partially be seen as a natural way \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof life and is rather a product of persecutions. But that the enslavement led \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tto flagrant abuses for Rroma cannot not be denied. Cartarescu presents these \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfacts movingly, even though he reduces the Rroma too much to the role of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvictims. He further criticises the still used method of distinguishing between \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\testablished lower and higher ethnies. This method also leads to racism against \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRomanians themselves, as they often rely on their differences towards Rroma \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tusing them as a counter-concept for their own identity. Cartarescu notes: <em style=\"font-family: Arial; \">\u201cHow \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\teasy is it to make the Roma responsible for Romania\u2019s bad image in the world! \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tConstantly one complains that foreigners mistake Romanians (honourable \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcitizens, peaceful, industrious, preserver of all ancestral virtues) for Roma, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe \u201cersatz-nation\u201d as they appears in our stupid and racist jokes. [&#8230;] Bound \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tas serfs and multiplying like animals, the Roma population from the Romanian \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprincipalities has increased here more than elsewhere in Europe. We have \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttherefore created the problem of our Roma. It is our historical debt.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cartarescu, Mircea (2013) \u00abGebt uns unsere Karren zur\u00fcck\u00bb. In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial; \">Neue Z\u00fcrcher \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tZeitung <\/em>vom 27.5.2013.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cartarescu (2012) provides information on the situation of Rroma in post-socialist Romania. 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