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| The Roma People Throughout Time | |||||
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We are Roma Media Film Productions and our cinematographic projects aim to build bridges through the arts between the Roma peoples and their host communities. Fighting predjudice through the medium of film, our projects entertain as well as educate, brining together the two communities in the common love of cinema. So, who are the Roma?One of the most persecuted minorities in Europe, indeed the world, often referred to as the Silent Victims of the Holocaust, the Roma are a collection of peoples who used to and some still do - lead a nomadic lifestyle through all the continent of Europe. Known for their music, dance and craftsmanship, many negative stereotypes have been attributed to them which are still current today. |
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An obscure people, fortune tellers, blacksmith and bucket makers, the sterotype varies from area to area. They came from Egypt, the came from India, no one knows, though many Roma themselves contend they are the People of Moses, a lost trine of Isrealites. |
The Crucifixion LegendA blacksmith was commissioned to make nails by the Romans, and different versions have different endings, one being the version where he has a dream where God tells him not to give four nails but only three, which he does, sparing Christ pain on the cross.The origional recorded version is where the nails were made, and he did not take away the last nail, so God condemned his people to wander the earth till judgement day. Walking like EgyptiansThe phrase Gypsy, seen nowadays as deragatory, came from a mispronounciation of the word "Egyptian".This came from a belief they came from Egypt, a belief held by some in Kosovo to this day, the area King James I of England was going to make in to Little Egypt.Indians without ChiefsModern linguistic and anthropologists place them as being from Rajistan in India, following trails of Arab and Mongol armies to enslavement under Wallachia, and then dispersal after emancipation.This is the accepted view, but a large minority contend this has been brought as a theory by the same people and on the same evidence of those who measured heads, and so was to be taken with the proverbial grain of salt.
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