{"id":1735,"date":"2014-01-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/24-01-2014-the-invisible-rroma-of-the-united-states\/"},"modified":"2022-07-26T14:05:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T13:05:56","slug":"24-01-2014-the-invisible-rroma-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/24-01-2014-the-invisible-rroma-of-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"24.01.2014 The invisible Rroma of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Strochlic \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(2013) discusses the role of the Rroma in the United States on the basis of the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treactions of American Rroma to the case of the blond Rroma girl Maria. Maria \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twas taken by the Greek authorities in the fall of 2013. As it turned out, she \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tis from a Bulgarian Rroma family. The blonde girl sparked a debate about \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpersistent racism and prejudice against the Rroma. In the U.S., the Rroma are clearly \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbetter integrated than in Europe. But most of them keep their identity a secret \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbecause they fear discrimination and exclusion. The integration of the Rroma in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe U.S. therefore primarily works by secrecy and an absence of history: \u201eIn the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tU.S., they\u2019re scattered: coming from a multitude of countries, speaking many \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdialects, practicing disparate traditions, and observing various levels of \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttraditionalism. But few Americans realise that there are Roma living in their \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmidst [\u2026] Undocumented by the U.S. Census, American Roma may keep their \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\theritage under wraps, but when it does <\/strong>emerge, they\u2019ve faced \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tdiscrimination from friends, landlords, waiters, classmates, strangers, cops, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tstore clerks, and professors. Many were raised with warnings not to tell others \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tof their ethnic identity, and so they remain a hidden ingredient in America\u2019s \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmelting pot.\u201d<\/em> As their European relatives, the American \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRroma fight with massive prejudices that persist in the minds of many people. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe negative stereotypes are confirmed by most media and are even increasing. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStrochlic presents a chronology of American Rroma activists who fight against \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprejudice and exclusion. To remain silent and to accept the defamations is not \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe right way to go.<\/p>\n