Ethnic Culture And Culture Of Poverty: The Gypsy/Roma
Peter Szuhay asked in "Constructing a Gypsy National Culture" whether the Gypsies are an ethnic culture or a culture of poverty. I would like to argue that the Gypsy identity is a product of traditional ethnic culture as well as the product of a marginalized social stratum. There are many aspects of gypsy ethnic culture to which can be contributed to the result of marginalization and sometimes those same ethnic cultural traits become stereotypes to which society justifies their stigmatization and poverty. Thus emerges a pattern of both ethnic and social traits being interdependent, intertwined and self-perpetuated.
The intersection of the two conflicting cultures can be seen in the following statement made by many and is commonly heard.
"I have a good friend who is a Gypsy, but he doesn't really count."
"I'm not a raciest, I just hate Gypsies, but I have many Gypsy friends."
Within these two statements we can clearly see two distinct types of Gypsies. First is the......
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