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Allowing racist tropes about Romani people to persist is dangerous | Racism

It seemed that the black tea that I have been in the café overcame during the treatment of words. An attractive conversation with an academic colleague has turned into bitterness when I heard that he was repeating a biased and biased narration that I faced a lot.

I was doing an argument about not recognizing the Romanian victims of Holocaust when I took it out. He said that “G ******”, which is a challenging term for the people of Rome in my country and part of the world, was targeted by the Nazis because of “criminality”. This unintended confirmation has always been used in some academic works depicting the Roman people as the lowest victims of the Holocaust.

While some official data and celebrations that commemorate the Holocaust recognize the victims of Rome and Sentusi – as during the latter Anniversary 80 From the editorial of Auschwitz – many institutions still depict and distance them as part of separate genocide or “other victims” of Nazi regimes. In part, this stems from the racist legend of criminality that accompanied the group annihilation campaign for the Roman people and the narration of history after that.

However, this legend, strongly related to biological racism, is still alive and in good health today, and it affects policies, behaviors and attitudes towards the people of Rome even in progressive places such as Canada.

In my research, I saw that in the daily life of Canadians, the anti -Rome racism rarely reveals itself through explicit violence, unlike the incidents that I witnessed or witnessed in Europe. Instead, it is often a form of daily racism-implicit in words, insults, jokes, and interrogation based on stereotypes, negative or active, and incidents that Roman understanding misunderstood, underestimated, or overlooked, or overlooked -Purse and day -stings not only irritation and harm, but also the value of a person and luxury.

Over the past few years, it has worked with a research team from the FXB Center at Harvard University and the Canadian Roman alliance to determine and examine these insults, which bears the name “value assault” by sociologist Michel Lamont. We met Roman and non -Roman individuals in the Greater Toronto Hamilton region (GTHA), the home of the largest Roman community in Canada, and put our results in study Entitled “Confronting the main discrimination and today”: Roman experiences in the Greater Toronto Hamilton region in Canada.

One of the most common experiences of the daily racism that the Roman Canadians we met, included doubts about the criminality caused by the world -ranked cup, the theft associated and the deception of Roman identity and culture.

A typical experience of Roman individuals is informed, “Oh, if you are for G ****, you must steal, or move a lot and things.” These novels can incite harmful procedures. A 76 -year -old Romanian woman who was suspected of stealing was also told us after the disclosure of her Roman identity to diverse co -workers. I felt insulted and injustice, I felt that she had to open my bag several times and say, “here, look through my things. “

The old cup of criminality, along with others, is exaggerated again and repeatedly in the culture of pop, movies, TV programs and even academic circles. In the context of the Greater Toronto-Hamilton region, this daily and repeated use of the arises related to criminality in social interactions let the Roman people feel their misunderstanding and distinction.

A 25 -year -old Romanian woman spoke to her that the Canadians saw her as “just G ****, and the last exaggeration. The other Roman Canadians were cautious in their interactions with their Canadian colleagues, especially those in European origin, especially in sharing information about their origin Ethnic.

The hiding or suppression of the Roman identity extends beyond personal reactions, which affects the official demographic data, and thus policies. While Canadian Statistics 2021 reported 6,545 Canadian Rome, informal estimates, including the 2016 United Nations report, indicate that the number may be closer to 110,000.

Higher ethnic insults are also a prominent expression of daily racism in the Greater Toronto Hamilton. Indeed, at the global level, racist ethnic insults are highlighted as a prevailing expression of value assault, documented by continents in countries such as Brazil, Israel and the United States.

Surprisingly for some, such incidents have also occurred in family circles. Many Roman people participated in the exposure of ethnic insults or jokes related to the crimes that arose from their partners other than Rome or members of the partners. One of the Roman interviews shared that his wife other than Rome told him that the people of Rome were “stupid or dirty”.

The expression of “dirty G ****”, which is rooted in racist ideas related to physical, societal, or biological and cultural impurity, was mentioned as an insult in the interviews we conducted. Interestingly, many of the perpetrators of those ethnic insults-individuals of the first generation of European origin or through the continents. “Look at them. Look how dirty they are. Look how many they are.

Our research also revealed a continuous use of ethnic replacement to harm the Roman people, insult, insult and discrimination against Roman individuals. The Canadians in the Greater Toronto-Hamilton region use the term G **** as an independent insult against the Roman people they see in the street or on cultural occasions. The criminal G **** is generally considered a racist dowry within the Roman circles, although it is adopted by some Roman groups, such as the British Roman people.

The equivalent displacement is also used to G **** in different languages, especially by Canadians of European origin. Basically, we noticed the presence of a link between immigration and import to Canada from stereotypes from countries that have large groups of Rome, which we also documented In the United States in 2020.

The study shows that the Roman Canadians who face ethnic ethnic insults feel sad, shy, or not safe, painful, painful, or immersed; It also shares that such experiences cause nausea, anxiety, panic, numbness, or a feeling of threat. “Those experiences … Stay with us,” one of the participants in the Canadian Roman study told us.

Whereas for many, suspicions of criminality, the term G ****, and relevant insults may be just words or ideas, for the Roman Canadians and the Roman Roman society, representing weapons of rejection, insult and discrimination that we have endured for centuries.

It is important for our global community to stop overcoming racist weapons, racist mockery, and the use of higher ethnic insults or jokes against the Roman people and racist groups. Allowing these harmful accounts to continue is the actual risks of real people.

In Norway, for example, the criminality cup is justified recently Create a Rome recordWhich was not different from the records created in a number of European countries before the Holocaust.

In the United States, similar tracks are used to support collective deportation policies and detention of migrants in detention camps such as Guantanamo, which, as a center for the CEO of Constitutional Rights Vince Warren, is still a global symbol of “chaos, torture and racism”.

The continuous use of racist standing and insults does not contribute to the marginalization of racist societies, but it can also lead to a serious normalization of non -governmental violence against them.

The opinions expressed in this article are the author of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of the editorial island.

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2025-02-22 13:40:00

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