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Post by zemelmete on Nov 15, 2005 9:43:16 GMT -5
Reading posts about AA's I have such feeling that attitude towards them in America is similar to attitude towards gypsies in Europe. Are AA's regarded in America in the same way as gypsies in Europe?
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Post by Educate Me on Nov 15, 2005 10:07:08 GMT -5
gypsies are regarded in europe and anywhere they live, much worse than african americans
I dont think most white americans would have a problem hiring a black nanny, but who would hire a gipsy to look after your children if you go to the movies?
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Post by alaina on Nov 15, 2005 10:36:19 GMT -5
I'm not qualified at all to answer this question, because I don't much about gypsies or European ethnic conflicts, but I can say this... All the American racial tension I hear about and see on the 'Net, I don't see in real life. Maybe it's different in other parts of the country, but where I live, I haven't seen a lot of issues.
In my classes, I'm usually the only AA person (although, more recently, I have been seeing West Africans).I'm surrounded by white and Asian people on a daily basis, and they don't treat me differently than they treat each other. I've been invited to their house, met their parents, and so on...In my highschool, where there was more of a mix, there was no real tension at all, except between the AA's and the recent rich African immigrants (who tend to look down on AA's, btw).
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Post by nockwasright on Nov 15, 2005 10:44:02 GMT -5
AA are worse off on average than some other American ethnic groups (not all I think) but are represented in every social group, from bottom to top. You meet an AA he could be a criminal or the CEO of a public company (or both). Gypsyes in Europe are almost all in the lowest braket of every parameter you can think of. E.g. I don't think there's one gypsy MD in Italy, it would be national news. You meet a gypsy you are SURE he is at best poor and ignorant. That's a huge difference.
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Post by redbaron on Nov 15, 2005 11:30:20 GMT -5
gypsies are regarded in europe and anywhere they live, much worse than african americans I dont think most white americans would have a problem hiring a black nanny, but who would hire a gipsy to look after your children if you go to the movies? Why would you? They'd rob you blind and eat your children while you're away.
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Post by Educate Me on Nov 15, 2005 11:40:49 GMT -5
They are famous for kidnapping kids, my mother was almsot kidnapped by gypsies when she was a little girl, byt the way this guy is the most famous gypsy "kidnappee" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith
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Post by redbaron on Nov 15, 2005 11:45:05 GMT -5
Gypsies in America, I believe, are treated like any medium-skin colored bunch of people. When Americans discover that they're gypsies, rather than recoiling in horror, they're more likely to say something like, "Wow, cool."
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Post by Melani2333 on Nov 15, 2005 12:15:49 GMT -5
Most gypies I've seen in America (pictures, tv) look either like White "Hispanics" or "White Trash", Jerry Spinger types. The old backwoods, dirty, white/part Native types. They do not look like E. Indians or Arabs.
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Post by murphee on Nov 15, 2005 12:19:08 GMT -5
I've never met a gypsy here in the United States. They exist here, but are such a small minority that there isn't widespread the European opinion of them. Many Americans have a romantic view of their traditional lifestyle (living in a wagon, colorful clothing, music, extended family cohesiveness).
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Post by aroundtheworld on Nov 15, 2005 12:59:26 GMT -5
If I were phenotypically, racially, culturally, and ethnically a gypsie and it was 1957 during the Civil Rights Era and I was living in the USA and wore American clothing, would I choose to be AfroAmerican or Gypsie??
Gypsie Pride!!!! Gypsie's Rule!!!
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Post by heavenwood on Nov 15, 2005 16:54:47 GMT -5
There are very few Gypsies in the United States. I have never met any (at least not that I know of).
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Post by eufrenio on Nov 15, 2005 17:04:41 GMT -5
If I were phenotypically, racially, culturally, and ethnically a gypsie and it was 1957 during the Civil Rights Era and I was living in the USA and wore American clothing, would I choose to be AfroAmerican or Gypsie?? Gypsie Pride!!!! Gypsie's Rule!!! Believe me, Blacks, even in those days, had better lives than Gypsies in Europe . At least materially. Gypsies live such ragged lives!
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Post by alaina on Nov 15, 2005 17:15:59 GMT -5
Groups in America that have the lowest status social and economic status would be Mexicans and Native Americans.
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Post by anodyne on Nov 15, 2005 17:18:32 GMT -5
With regards to Mexicans it would depend on how many generations the family has been in the states. Native Americans on reservations are the worst off, no doubt about that. Native Americans living outside of the reservation i'm not too sure.
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Post by redbaron on Nov 15, 2005 17:40:07 GMT -5
I could be wrong, but I believe the statistically lowest rung of the ladder in the US are the black communities in the Mississippi delta region. It is just pure, third world-level rural misery. I saw a show on it once and they had to use subtitles for the local dialect. The reporter asked a child what he wanted to be when he grew up, and he said, "A store." Scary stuff. Like they used to say in the '20s, it's better to be a lamppost in Harlem than a black man in Mississippi (or in this case, Louisiana).
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