Vatican joins protests as France expels Gypsies [ flights followed a roundup of illegal immigrants]

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=7290 ^ | Aug 21 2010 | Catholic culture.org

[Wuli]

“Thanks again for the links. This particular society is not one I know that much about (except for the obvious stereotypes and such).”

Ditto - on my part too, until this thread caused me to go search for some greater understanding.

The history, and the length of it - centuries, and the result of it:

(EU “citizen” to Gypsy: You are not “part of us” and so you cannot be “part of us”; Gypsy to EU citizen: You have always rejected me, and you will always reject me, so I don’t want to be your “citizen”)

seems like it would be a very difficult social and political catch-22 to change; for both sides.

I am guessing that one of the easiest ways it has changed, throughout the centuries, maybe, is when a Gypsy married an “outsider”, left the Gypsy clan, family and social life and that Gypsies children became part of “regular” society.