[lbo-talk] Roma history

Voyou voyou1 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 19:55:35 PDT 2009


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 fact that there are noticeable communities of Roma in the West, but not of the other groups you mention, might be something of an explanation for the relative level of interest in the West.

-- Voyou <voyou1 at gmail.com>



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