[HN Gopher] Yenish people ___________________________________________________________________ Yenish people Author : merename Score : 48 points Date : 2023-09-03 19:59 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (en.wikipedia.org) (TXT) w3m dump (en.wikipedia.org) | fuzztester wrote: | At first I thought this was about a variant of the Romani people, | due to having talked just a few days ago with an Italian guy who | was half Jewish and half Romani. | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people | | We had a talk about the Romani, the discrimination against them, | and some other interesting topics. | | I mentioned to him that, as a teenager, I had read a book titled | Lavengro, a fictional work about a gypsy, by George Borrow. | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavengro | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Borrow | DrDroop wrote: | Reminds me a bit of the Cagot people who lived around the border | region between France and Spain. These people where hated, | discriminated and prosecuted for more then a thousand years while | people had forgotten what they ever did to deserve this. Already | in the 16th century the Pope published a edict saying let | bygones-be-bygones and forgave them for whatever perceived crime. | Historians don't believe they where ever responsible for this | perceived crime and that the Pope probably knew this but forgave | them anyway in a hopeless attempt to stop the discrimination. | ithkuil wrote: | I didn't know you actually had to "do" something to deserve to | be discriminated against and persecuted. Generally you just | need to "be" | nine_k wrote: | Crimes would usually be ascribed to the hated group as an | afterthought. | [deleted] | sakex wrote: | We have some people of the road in Geneva. I'm not sure if | they're Yenish or not but the usually arrive at the beginning of | Spring and leave at the end of the Summer. | mortureb wrote: | Where do they go in winter? | | That being said, a nomadic lifestyle sounds so interesting and | romantic. Too bad most nomads are heavily discriminated | against. | detourdog wrote: | For a while I really wanted to be a Bedouin like. In the end | it just didn't seem to be realistic. I ended up getting a job | like everyone else. It just didn't seem right. | fuzztester wrote: | We have Banjara / Lambadi people in India, who are like gypsies. | | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjara | merename wrote: | Other links | | https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/threatened-minorities_n... | | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8Z3X7yTiDQ | | https://www.equaltimes.org/the-cultural-genocide-committed | | https://historum.com/t/the-yenish-yeniche-people.127900/ | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariella_Mehr | tetris11 wrote: | Is your name related to Mariella Mehr? | merename wrote: | No and I didn't even notice. I just learned about her today | and thought her background was interesting, not to mention | tragic. I wonder if anyone here has read her memoir? | placesalt wrote: | The song 'Move Along', by Tommy Makem and Liam Clancy, about | Gypsies / Irish Travellers, is very affecting: | | https://youtu.be/vV7suDUeXSc?t=286 ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-03 23:00 UTC)