The story of a Czech Romni married to a non-Roma man. She starts by saying that a strange woman shouted at me not to speak Romani to my son in a shop!
She says:
I am a Romani woman. For some, it is just a word, for me it is my identity, my history and my pride. My husband Petr is Czech, a “gadžo”, and together we are raising our two-year-old son Davídek. Our home is a place where two worlds, two cultures meet. We speak Czech together, but I have also spoken Romani to Davídek since birth. I want him to know the language of his grandparents, to understand the songs and stories that shaped our family. I want him to be proud of both halves of his body.
- Ilona (30): Cizí žena na mě křičela, ať nemluvím na syna romsky! In: Medium. 08.08.2025. https://medium.seznam.cz/clanek/jaroslav-kral-ilona-30-cizi-zena-na-me-kricela-at-nemluvim-na-syna-romsky-174034
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