[lbo-talk] Roma history

[Alan Rudy]

I bet there were other people who were a bit irritated that you knew next to
nothing about feminist struggles/women's politics in Iran... what's your
point?
In any event, do you really put this on Hugo?  Why not Cher?  Keerist.  Did
the the Chuvash, Kalmyks, Buryats, Cossacks, Tyvans, Bashkirs" migrate
across _Western_ Europe as tinkers for centuries experiencing various forms
of oppression the whole time - including some time in the gas chambers?
Westerners, whoever the hell they are, know all sorts of selective, biased
and messed up crap about the rest of the planet... why be pissed about this
more than the fact that 95% of my undergrads - despite knowing soldiers who
are there - can't find Iraq on a map and claim the war doesn't affect them.
Dude, filter your Enter key.
A

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


>
> BTW, I find Westerners' obsession with the Roma, of all of the billion
> zillion fascinating Eastern European and Eurasian ethnic groups, to be
> extremely annoying. Victor Hugo wrote a book with them in it that was made
> into a Disney movie, so they're in the popular consciousness, unlike all the
> other billion zillion Eastern European and Eurasian ethnic groups, such as
> the Chuvash, the Kalmyks, the Buryats, the Cossacks, the Tyvans, the
> Bashkirs, etc. etc. etc. It would be pretty damn hard to find a Westerner
> who knows that the Chuvash even exist, despite there being two million of
> them, with their own language, which is quite beautiful:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry4ME10Hgho&feature=related
>
>
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