{"id":1382,"date":"2013-09-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/06-09-2013-rroma-debate-in-germany\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T10:43:07","slug":"06-09-2013-rroma-debate-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/06-09-2013-rroma-debate-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"06.09.2013 Rroma Debate in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Gumbrecht \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(2013 ) discusses the ambivalence of foreign names such as \u201cGypsy\u201d and calls \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfor a differentiated approach to terminology. While this term has been abused \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tin the context of National Socialism and of inhumane practices, it also has romantic \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconnotations. The unreflective usage of the self-designation \u201cRroma\u201d might well \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgo hand in hand with the desire to want to relativise or even negate the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thistoric suffering of the Rroma: <em style=\"font-family: Arial; \">\u201cThe \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvariety of readily available information on relevant etymologies, semantic \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfields and morphological variants is so tight that the impression that you \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthink the name change can undo the historical suffering of Roma and Sinti and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tget rid of a debt.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Despite his \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpleas for critical, disturbing thoughts, Gumbrecht is not free of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmisconceptions. When he cites a recent statistic that claims that a large part \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof the Rroma show a lack of interest in education, he makes the mistake of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tidentifying poverty as a cultural phenomenon. There are many Rroma who put \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tgreat emphasis on education and strongly engage themselves so that more and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmore Rroma acquire good educational qualifications. But he also intelligently states \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\thow difficult it is to actually understand the social realities of the Rroma behind \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe numerous stereotypes: The Rroma, next to Rromanes, speak a variety of languages, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdepending on which country they live. They belong to different faiths and have \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvery diverse economic work. In addition to the heterogeneity of these \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tparameters Gumbrecht cites a \u201cpermanence\u201d of traditions, such as living in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\textended families, patriarchal structures, or ritual purity and impurity, that are \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tseen as the foundation of the Rroma culture. But even here, caution should be \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texercised before political judgments are deducted, because findings that there \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twas a <em>\u201cpredominance of \u201chealth\u201d and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201chappiness\u201d [&#8230;] over the dimensions of performance or knowledge\u201d<\/em> may be \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttrue for some Rroma, many others would strongly object to that statement. These \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cinvisible Rroma\u201d \u00a0that are almost \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnot discussed by the media, the well integrated, professionally successful, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfeel ill represented by the media reporting and misunderstood. This aspect is \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tnot addressed by Gumbrecht. But he speaks enthusiastically of Django Reinhart \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tand Drafi Deutscher and thus indirectly confirms how little the German public knows \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tabout Rroma.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich (2013) \u00abZigeuner!\u00bb In: <em style=\"font-family: Arial; \">Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung online<\/em> vom 9.8.2013. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.faz.net\/digital\/2013\/08\/09\/zigeuner-333\/\" style=\"font-family: Arial; \">http:\/\/blogs.faz.net\/digital\/2013\/08\/09\/zigeuner-333\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gumbrecht (2013 ) discusses the ambivalence of foreign names such as \u201cGypsy\u201d and calls for a differentiated approach to terminology. 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