Assimilation is a term with a negative meaning. It means a society to be not oneself anymore losing cultural features and lifestyle completely. Entegration is a term especially used for minorities' and immigrants' adaptation process in Europe. It means a minority to adapt mainstream of society without being assimilated.
It's open that we, Gypsies neither are assimilated or entegrated to society in Europe. In any case, we believe that nobody have to think our people to assimilate. On the other hand, we haven't yet entegrated to the societies we live together in a healthy way too. We always hear words about difficulty of entegration of Gypsies from authorities. It's always being discussed why Gypsies are not assimilated in media, bulletins of NGOs and reports published by academicians.
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Most of the ones asking the question "Why Gypsies are not entegrated?" believe that Gypsies don't want to be entegrated even they don't say this openly. We are happy with hard conditions we live in according to their idea. We want to show why this idea, which is accepted by too many people, is incorrect in these article series.
As a matter of fact, Gypsies want to be entegrated in everywhere they live. We want to live under conditions, under which middle and upper classes live, just like our ancestors. We are fed up with poverty and misery. There is nothing about our wish to be entegrated. Our readers will see that the main issue is about if authorities of the societies we live together want us to be entegrated after reading this article series. We will only tell about main topics for now. We will start to discuss handicaps against Gypsies want to be entegrated starting from next week. We will have some recommondations for authorities and representeters of Gypsy organizations in the last article.
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Here are the main questions which shows us why gypsies can not be entegrated or not wanted to be entegrated in the society. We will tell more about the answers of these questions in this column.
For thousands of years, main way of subsistence of the peoples composing Gypsy Universal Nation was commercial nomadism. They got different food products from settled agriculturists and nomadic herders in exchange of selling crafts and providing services. Why did gypsies choose this subsistence way which force them to beg for a piece of bread? Why didn't they produce their own food by agriculture or animal breeding? Was this a choice or a necessity?
- What so ever happened at the beginning, did tribes, which belong to Gypsy Universal Nation, ever try to do agriculture or animal breeding as livelihood in the later history. Was this try obstructed by Gadjo peoples somehow ?
- Gypsy peoples faced a very big crise after industrialization and lost their traditional jobs. They had to work in jobs which wouldn't be preferred by other people, with little income and without any social security. In the time when these jobs started to become more popular non-gypsies started to show a strong interest on this jobs and brought a competition to the field. Did this competition which was lived under peace conditions come to a point of discrimination for Gypsies by using violence ? Did gypsies go back to jobs with very little incomes?
- Were Gypsy people obstructed to settle in central parts of city and urban areas in various historical periods? Did Gypsy groups who can't settle in central areas have to move to desolate, unpreferable areas? Were gypsies send far away from the city after these areas becoming improved and city center getting bigger?
Answers of the questions above will show us why Gypsy peoples are not entegrated in the societies that they live with; why don't share the same conditions with the groups who live well. The main goal of this article is to show the ones, who think that gypsies are the only responsibles for the the life they live, that gypsies are not the only responsibles for the disasters that they face. Even though we know that who ever wants to understand us wouldn't need much explanation...
Have a nice week.
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