[lbo-talk] Roma history

[Voyou]

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.

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