This is my longest video yet and while it did take a while to make, i’m really proud of how it came out! Now that it’s out consistent videos are coming back daily, and I want to thank y’all again for 100,000 subs! Ps. Don’t mind how many times I say the word “stereotypes” in this video. 😅
Congrats on 100k!!! It's well deserved and I want to thank you for putting so much effort into all this! Also, I adore Zita's designs so much and that jacket suits you very well! 💙
Keep your flag strongly , and come back to your own original land , where we sheltered every other community in the lap of Bharat here you are our own , so come back one by one
Congrats on your success in educating the public on Romani people. You said it just right. Stereotypes exist, but they are not the totality of a community. All communities contain a complex mix of personalities, both good, bad, and in between.
create conditions that push some Roma people into crime to survive -> hold one person's actions as representative of an entire culture while withholding the context of those actions -> use that to justify creating conditions that push Roma people into crime. Rinse and repeat. It's an old game, and it's very disappointing to see so many people participating gleefully when this lesson should have been learned many times over by now
@moonrunrs Actually pattern recognition doesn't identify causes. and i recognize a pattern in both Black and Romani people being targeted by the law and pushed into poverty, pushing them to crime which is used to justify more prejudice and discrimination. however sometimes you don't need a pattern to identify a cause! for example, the cause of you leaving this comment seems to be that you're blaming a marginalized group of people for social issues because you refuse to grapple with the fact that the problems in your society were caused by your society and people from your general background with your general beliefs. hope this helped! ❤️
@@moonrunrs are you talking about culture, or stereotype? Being a mysterious thief that reads minds and dances on the streets because "it's part of their personality" is stereotypes. It's the food, language(s), dances, etc. that are a major part of Romani culture
i am mixed rom and romanian. I can confirm that discrimination against Roma in Romania was certainly very present in the 90s. I left there because since I was a child I have always suffered both physical and psychological abuse and insults from classmates and from the teachers. I was continually isolated from everyone else, and anyone who sought nonviolent contact was always scolded by the teachers. When the other classmates learned to read and count, the teachers always made me draw. After five years the attitude of the teachers still remained the same, and I was always alone. At that point my parents decided that the situation was too dangerous for my future. So we went away to another country with the only hope that everything I had been through up to that moment would never happen again. We moved to Italy. Due to gaps in math, I had to start a class younger than my age. There were some positive changes, the best of all was that I could participate in all lessons and subjects, the teachers gave me the opportunity to read even to me who was not very familiar with the new language. I continued to stay alone because even the parents of the new classmates told their children that they shouldn't have approached me because I might be sick, it was out of the question to let me play with them and it was absolutely forbidden to invite me to birthdays and parties. throughout my life I have always had to deny being mixed Roma in order not to be penalized, or more simply to have the same rights and treatment as a normal person. Thanks to your channel and your videos, I'm rediscovering a very important part of myself that I've kept hidden for too long. Florian you are an inspiration to me, thank you for all you are doing
You are fighting against discrimination in a ver effective way. You've corrected alot of misunderstandings in your videos. Thank you for helping others understand your culture and history.
i'm turkish and while there was a romani neighborhood where i grew up in istanbul, i admittedly didn't know that much about roma other than all the harmful stereotypes that society tells us... but you've genuinely changed this! thank you, i love your content.
As someone from the Philippines, the way Romani people are discriminated against reminds me of how the Badjao from my country are also being held to the same harmful stereotypes (beggars, pickpockets, scammers, uneducated, etc.)
All of these things are also being said about Native Americans/Canadians, African-Americans, Aboriginals of Australia, Maori Indigenous of New Zealand etc. It’s so f’d up.
I mean... it's pretty obvious why. These groups were all marginalized to the degree that many members had to resort to doing these kinds of things, and/or were actively prevented from sustaining themselves through other means. It's kind of what happens when you force people to assimilate while preventing them from partaking in the means to do so and enforce a hierarchy about it.
Badjaos (an exonym, their real name for themselves is Sama people) are also known as Sea Gypsies because of their nomadic lifestyle in the seas of South East Asia. Interestingly, they also possess South Asian admixture (probably Dravidian) just like the early ancestors of the Roma people (though no indication they're related to one another).
As an author and a big into fantasy books I just wanted to say thank you for what you’ve been doing!! It’s opened my eyes so much and had made me think about things more and expanded my find from the representation I’ve been exposed to!! You are right representation matters!!
When I was a little kid, maybe 7 or 8, a girl joined my class at school. I was a pretty lonely kid but I made friends with her fast. For some reason, the adults didn't seem to like that I was spending time with her, but she was the best friend I had. Then one day she wasn't there any more. As an adult, adding the clues together, I think she was from a Traveller family and the adults didn't want me hanging around her because of the same kind of biases and judgements that are applied to Romani people. But she was kinder and friendlier to me than anyone else in that school and I am never going to forget that. The adults were wrong.
As a Romanian, I am so happy to see this! I am just glad to hear this kind of stuff because there is so much stereotyping and because I don’t have the inclination to throughly research this stuff, videos like this mean a lot because they make me aware of the Rroma reality without having to do much work, educating me in the easiest way possible.
I just added your video to my education-videos. As a teacher, I find your videos very educational and I will be having my students watch them! Thank you!
i’ve binge watched all your videos and shorts throughout today and I really applaud you for taking the responsibility of educating people about your culture. When I tell you I didn’t learn a single word about romani people one time in school the only thing I ever heard was the G word and the stereotypes spread. I never believed them cuz I know what it’s like to be racially stereotyped but i’m glad to have been taught so much about the culture !
Please keep doing these videos! I find them very interesting and informative. You are doing a fantastic job in educating us about Romani history and culture.
Thank you so much for this video & all your other efforts to educate others about the truth of the Romani people! As an non Romani from the US, my exposure to or understanding of Romani culture was very limited, my school never taught me about them . I didn’t even really know they existed, only seeing fragments of their culture in stereotypical “fortune teller “ roles in films or their fashion in hippie new age culture. It wasn’t till my late teens I even heard of Romani directly as most of the media I watched wouldn’t outright use the word or the G slur, merely calling them fortune tellers . Even when I did learn of them, it was from entertainment made by non Romani people such as the Hunchback of Notre Dame or Assassins Creed Revelations. I was very ignorant & am happy to finally be able to hear the truth from Romani people directly!
Just that. Everyone nerds to learn more about your culture. These stereotypes are misused for fearmongering all around Europe. You merely hear anything about Romani history or culture, even when we spoke about the gruesome acts done to Romani people in German concentration camps in school (I'm I'm from Germany). Even then, their suffering, history and vulnerable position in european societies were never really touched.
You have been such a good jumping off point for my research! Discovered a large portion of my family immigrated to America from Romania and were Roma musicians/performers. So much of the culture and knowledge was lost to our family trying to fit into american culture and the typical American dream.
I'm not Romani, but I fully support! You are right in that education is key to ending racial stereotypes. Romani culture is amazing and has influenced the world, especially in the arts.
Thank you for sharing your culture. I love learning about the Roma from you because you have a very positive "We can change the world together through education" attitude. I feel like by just learning from you and making a change in my own misguided view points i am part of that change. I'm very grateful you are here to teach me and that you are so kind and positive and that you are so welcoming. Thank you and may you have a womderful day! ❤❤❤❤
I'm very glad you are doing this work. I can't believe YT doesn't have more Romani voices. I hope, now that you are doing longer videos, you have plans for a video on Germany. Very few people know how complex that history is. In Bavaria, west Germany, mostly Sinti families stayed in the area for 300 years! They Integrated well. Being craftsman, keepers of animals, healers of people and animals with plant medicine, and lovers of music, these things were also important to the Bavarians and they made very good neighbors for one another. This is why the Roma were comfortable and accepted there for so long and had the one of the best relationships with the non Roma anywhere in Europe. I hope you mention this because Germany and German - romani history often focuses only on the devouring. Even that is told in a way that ignores these deep ties. The romani were not strangers in the country. 300 years is about as long as the USA has been a country. Imagine if fascism came to America and there was a persecution of Irish Americans. To most people it would seem ridiculous, a return of long dead prejudices, targeting friends and neighbors who had lived in the community for generations. But then it's written in history as crimes against immigrants That's the truth of what it was like when Germany betrayed it's Roma population. Please say something about this, because it seems there is only you to say it here on YT
As a romanian I am happy to find out about Din Viața Romilor, I cant way to check it out!Romanians desperately need to be educated on romani culture as discrimination is still very much present, young children are still indoctrinated with harmful stereotypes and I witness a lot of racism each day. I deeply appreciate all of your efforts to educate people on romani culture, you explain things in a very lighthearted and profound way, I have been watching your videos for quite a while, they are very informative and the moment where you put in the effort to speak romanian again to express yourself on the show was very meaningful to me.
I discovered your channel in RUclips Shorts. As much of a hellhole it tends to be, I enjoyed watching your short videos. I've recently found your longer videos and find them very interesting too. Btw I'd like to hear more about the Romani community in the United States as well as your experiences there. I've read that while only 0.3% of the United States population is Romani, that's about one million people.
I respect your work and hope your message spreads and creates an impact in Europe where the roma need it the most, I have some slight critiques though: One critique is on the story of the romani palaces, I found the story of gold coins pretty idyllic, a story of hard work and fair reparations from the government, and I have found the full story to be more complex and violent than you'd expect (or probably not since we're talking about the Romanian government's treatment of the roma here), could be good for a video essay. First I found the Financial Times "The gaudy, joyful palaces of the Roma" reporting on this architecture where they mention "Delia Grigore, a Romanian Romani writer, philologist and activist, says it was mainly the Kalderash or “coppersmith” Roma who started to build these palaces." (they forgot to mention her Doctorate in the Anthropology of the Romani culture), "The fall of communism did not just give the opportunity to build these houses but the means too, he says. Many Roma had already been in the scrap-metal business before the regime changed as tinkers and dealers, marginalised from other occupations. Then, after the fall, “lots of factories went bankrupt and sold their contents, the goods, machines, cables, tracks - and the Roma dealers bought it. They could make a lot of money,” says Florin Nasture, a Roma community organiser" this sounds like the most plausible way they could've made this money, a lot of Romanian millionaires got their riches this way and the local industry was being bought and scrapped, the rest of the story is a good read though. But the story of the gold coins is more interesting. You can find the sequence of events in "Chronology for Roma in Romania" from refworld or the news article "Gypsies demand compensation from Romania" from United Press International (UPI), the story of the Romanian "King of the Roma Everywhere" is interesting too. The other critique is on the roma party president, I don't have a problem with the activists that team up under the party I have a problem with its leadership since they're not just politicians, but Romanian politicians and they have a history of corruption and collusion with the ruling parties and I wouldn't be surprised of this since this was during a period of rampant corruption in Romania, it still is. He also doesn't need to worry about voter lashback for poor governance or for lying to his voter base since his seat is given to him regardless for being the president of the roma party and parties representing minorities always get given at least one seat in parliament, the majority of the roma don't even vote for the roma party. What I'm most mad for is that over 15 000 000 lei worth of funds that didn't reach the roma community that needed it the most under his supervision, that was 77% of the funding lost. He is also a member of the chamber of deputies that writes laws. He passed an ordinance bill late during the night regarding the pardoning of certain committed crimes, and the amendment of the Penal Code of Romania (especially regarding the abuse of power) to free up space in the prisons, opponents raised accusations that the ordinance was intended for decriminalisation of government corruption, and to help hundreds of current and former politicians to escape ongoing criminal investigations or prison sentences including the president of the ruling party of Romania at the time, because of this 600 000 Romanians protested around the world for the biggest protest we had since the revolution and it lasted from 2017 to 2019 and we suffered casualties of 467 people injured because of this. I wish you all the success and hope you achieve all you've ever wished, good luck.
I'm so glad that I found you and your content. I'm not Romani but I always wanted to know why they face so much racism and prejudices. Lately Netflix released a (polish?) series, called Infamy, about a Romani Family and I'm torn about how to sort the portrayal of Romani culture. Have you seen the series yet? If yes: what do you think about it?
When I was in Bucharest I saw tons of private homes with barbed wire around them. I wonder why the owners would go trough all that trouble to set it up??
I started watching your videos because there are highly contested rumors in my family that my grandfather’s mother was Sinti. Whether she was or wasn’t didn’t matter to me too much as I’m not Sinti. I’m just a white American. But it did spark a curiosity and a desire to understand what I can. Thank you
I met a lovely Romani family from Romania. They were absolutely the nicest people. They were here visiting family. I wish I could go there but that is just a dream for me. They taught me a lot about Romania and their culture. Best two weeks I had to enjoy someone else traditions.
I'm very grateful to you for doing all this educational work!! I was able to learn so much about the Romani people from your channel and started paying more attention to clothes patterns (and whether they are appropriative)
I love your efforts to educate on both the truth about Romani people & the harm stereotypical roles have caused. Something I am curious about if you don’t mind me asking, is what your thoughts are on some of the fictional fantasy races or species that are not technically Romani but it’s clear they’re either influenced by or an allegory for them? The first one that comes to my mind is the Kajhit from the Elder Scrolls series. As an outsider, I could guess that these fictional groups may still help spread harmful stereotypes , but I have also seen them be used to point out injustices & prejudices groups like that have to go through. I thought it be best to ask you as I do not wish to assume the opinions on these kind of media portrayals from the perspective of a culture I am not a part of.
It’s best in all cases, even when just loose inspiration, to consult Romani people to see how the representation may affect our community and if it is spreading negative stereotypes.
@@florida.florian i do Larp as a hobby, and I encounter a lot of people portraying "Zaori" (clearly inspired by Romani poeple). Their most common argument for them choosing these character concepts is, that they are 'only playing with the harmful stereotypes' which are supposedly DISTINCT from the actual Romani culture, hence it's not appropriation (same goes for Voodoo, btw). Like it's 'just the pop culture gypsies' (not my wording). I have a VERY HARD TIME with this take. German Larp community is generally a very progressive and wholesome one, but this particular issue is bothering me a bunch.
@@nannaxie9405"Only playing with the harmful stereotypes" seems like a dangerous perspective. My take on it is this: those stereotypes have been used in the name of slavery, genocide, racism, and hate crimes that exist to this day. In the lives of millions of people, they are no game. To "play" with those stereotypes is not only to perpetuate them, it is to downplay their severity and do a tremendous injustice to the people who have been their targets.
romani or gypsy are banjaras of india , who travelled all over the world for trading(bhai lakki shsh banjara = richest man in south asia) and after the fall of pruthvi raj chauhan , we spread all over the country(remember at that time their was no pakisthan and afghanisthan , it was all under akhand bharath) ....we have mainly four clans chauhans(chouhan,chowhan,chavan)=agnivanshi,rathods(rathore)suryavanshi,jadhav(jadhaun)=chandra vanshi,pawar(parmar)=agni vanshi , banjaras are very fair in skin and kshatriya warriors. and the over all banjara population is 12 crores above according to 2011 census ,only in india . if you add our romani brothers and sisters ,their are much more.......banjaras (lamani or lubana or lobana or vanjara or sugali etc...) used to supply gunpowder(potassium nitrate salt) , thats why they are called lavani(salt trader) and many items....they are highly rich in culture.they are financially rich at that time....but in 1871 the criminal act was imposed on banjaras by the britishers as banjaras physicallly and mentally highy strong , they were opposing britishers....after imposiing of criminal act on them ,then thy statred to move far away from the society , some of them left states, some them left countires, some of them went deep into the forests to hide from britishers....banjaras in punjab are under obc category , in arunachal pradesh they are in general and in kerala they are in general ,in telanagan and andhara pradesh they are under st, in madhya pradesh obc, in rajstthan obc etc...we devottee maa jagadhamba,tulja bhavani.....and sikhs people has highy respect to banjaras in punjab because bhai lakki shah banjara and makhan shah lubana helped 9th sikh guru , guru tegh bahadur (search about him in wikipedia for clear expanation) and they capital city of india(delhi) was the land of bhai lakki shah banjara and the red for(laal khila) and many forts were built by the help of lakki shah banjara because he has 3lakh plus of buffalos, thousand of horses and elephants....bhai makkhan shah lubana was dealt with export and import, where as bhai lakki sahh banjara expanaded all over the india and many asian places for trading....famous muslim poet said that, " bhai lakki shah banjara you are not the richest man in the world ,their is another one he is none other than allah",you can imagine how rich he was,that a man is being compared with god.....and their is a famous line that,"if you want to know about banjara history then you are finding a needle in a grass of garden"....comment your doubts and this is 0.000001 % about history of banjaras.....sorry for my english
As an Indian I relate to a lot of the struggles faced by the Roma community. Even Indians are seen as "scammers" by westerners, the mainstream media in western countries try to enforce the stereotype that all Indians are scammers, especially telephone scammers.
Oh that’s because westerners get telephone scams from your country regularly. It’s not as bad as Nigeria though. I’m not saying that stereotyping all Indians is ok, but there is a reason for that one specifically.
@@flutenanyidk1806 Until the day that they are able to be provided with stable jobs and not taken advantage of by the west, unfortunately they will have to rely on scams to feed their families and keep a roof over their heads.
It sucks doubly because people in India are often hired by Western companies [many of ill repute] solely to avoid paying people a living wage in the States... So Indian people who are desperate for work & don't know better end up at call centres that we in the US know to be sketchy. Meaning that the basis of the stereotype is largely due to unethical corporations & exploitation of the poor.
My friend Tida, her siblings, cousins are all first generation American. I think she said her father came to America as a refugee in the 60s and had a treacherous journey to escape Romania. She did a DNA test a few years ago and a large percentage of ancestry is from India. Tida has a huge family and she grew up strict Roman catholic from a Romanian church.
Standing with Roma community educating myself. I am gadje who is beautifully accepted by this community Gypsies I know have only recently become more able to get opportunities. I bless you my brother for standing in the gap
i am from Brazil, and i've seen romani people even in my city and didn't know much about them, only superficial steriotypes. Thanks to your videos, I know now it is such a beautiful culture and people who have endured so many hardships, and are still strong!
Florian, thank you for an extremely powerful presentation. I am not Roma but I have great respect for the culture and deep empathy for the appalling treatment that the people have been subjected to. As a child in Glasgow, Scotland, the few Romani people I knew or encountered left me with a positive experience. There was a group who used to do plays and puppet shows in the backyards of the tenement buildings. They could transform the place into a magical realm with trellises of paper flowers for a set. And they were very kind to me, teaching me how to make flowers. In my adult life in Canada, I have friends who travelled to Europe and told me how they were warned by the locals about “gypsies,” many repeating the very negative stereotypes you discuss in this video. Hearing that always made me angry. I detest all forms of discrimination. As you say, there will always be people who chose a bad lifestyle, but that occurs in every culture. I am so pleased to have found your channel where I can broaden my understanding of who the Romani really are. 💙❤💚
I hope you do some videos about Romani values. I really need some education about that subject. I am proud of how bright and committed you sounded on tv.
I appreciate the work you are doing, Florian. I am happy to learn about your culture. I am sorry to say that in England, although racism is much less common now, for some reason people think it's ok to mindlessly criticise Roma people and travellers generally. Time to change that.
That was a pleasure to watch, it’s nice to see some positive news. While there is a long way to go I think having a political party will help to make Romania a lucrative and attractive country for Romani people in the future.
Well made video! Kudos to your hard work & enthusiasm to spread awareness about the Romani people. Very impressed to hear their success stories as well. Keep up the good work!
I’m a US citizen with Roma ancestry. My family came here and did not do so well and fell apart, not just from our culture, but from one another. Years of bad family issues… I myself have been homeless on the streets since 16. My life has been very hard to say the least. Now, I am trying so hard to go back to school, and many other things. I am learning about what it means to be Roma. I do not speak any Romani. I know some Hungarian, which is where my family had moved from. I have no culture myself. I have no tribe. I do not even have friends currently. I just got off the streets and am staying with my cousin. I just saw my aunt recently and we talked about being Roma, but I didn’t honestly even know what that meant. I remember my mother telling me when I was really young that we were Gypsies, but I didn’t even really know what that meant outside of the stereotypes. Here in US, Gypsies are kind of synonymous with hippies in a way that hippies really like Roma art and style I think. This is funny, and pretty random, but I taught myself guitar and developed a really unique and odd style of playing. People I have met have told me they like it and that I am making the guitar sound like a sitar… and I wonder if harmonics and musical vibrations can be stored in the memory of our bodies in a way that somehow this musical style that I play, perhaps it is the music of my ancestors and I just never really knew why I liked it, but it was what came natural to me when I taught myself to play and wrote my own songs. I am a Roma. A Gypsy, but not Egyptian. My DNA tests confirm we are Roma. My aunt said we are Romani, but I learned today that I think we are Roma, but that we do not speak Romani which is the language of the Roma. I want to get my own culture right, although like I said I feel I have no culture, no home. I have moved 1,000 in this country, never a home or place to belong to, and I am surprised I am not dead sometimes after all the crazy things I have been through. When I learn more of my own people and what it was like for us before we came to the USA and how we are still treated in Europe, I am appalled and upset, but I see that tbh my life here has been akin to my kin abroad… I want to learn my culture and my language. I want something to be proud of. I wish to some day have a home so I can start a farm, build a giant telescope and laboratory, and raise goats, grow my own foods, and study science, mathematics and philosophy… I am off the streets now and trying to go back to school soon. My cousin did it and is working as an engineer now… I will follow your channel and learn all I can from you about our people. My great great grandparents went through so much to get here, but I’ll not be ashamed of our culture… it seems after a generation passed, that we became Americanized and gave up all of our culture from before. Well, most of it… tiny things survived that I am seeing here and there as I learn about my people abroad. It’s good to feel a part of something in a way, but also sad that I also do not really feel a part of it because of ignorance and lack of family ties or something… idk. Anyways, thank you for your videos. Take care :)
Omg Im so excited I didn't expect you to make such a long video. I love your content and im so happy you've taken the jump to make something that takes so much extra work but hopefully can inform so many people. ❤
I am American...i get 2 recation. We are either awful or mythical. Im going through legal problems and my ex is absolutely gonna use that im romani against me. He says we cannot be trusted and are bad
I'm a Romanian living abroad and I appreciate the work you're doing in spreading awareness on the Romani culture and the Romani community's experiences within the larger society but I have to respectfully disagree with you on saying that the Romanian Romas are leaving Romania in droves because of lack of opportunity specfic to their ethnicity. There are aprox 3 milion Romanians living abroad and most are Ethnic Romanians not Roma, Romanian Romas are only a small minority of the Romanian diaspora. Sadly, there's a general lack of opportunity for all Romanians in Romania and that's not at all specific to the Roma, it impacts the entire population more or less equally. Another reason for the Romanian Roma's leaving Romania in significantly larger numbers then average is simply due to the fact that Romania has by far the largest Roma population in Europe estimated at around 2.5 milion so it rather makes sense that the Romanian Roma emmigant community would be much larger then that from other European country.
Bună, Florian! Și eu sunt originară din Craiova. Apreciez foarte mult munca pe care o faci! Te rog, creează un videoclip în care să vorbești despre toate aceste teme pe care le abordezi; despre reprezentarea malignă, despre problema de vizibilitate a autoreprezentării rome și despre discriminarea sistemică. Aș vrea să pot să împărtășesc videoclipurile tale cu oamenii din comunitatea mea care încă cred în stereotipurile rasiale. Am încercat de foarte multe ori să îmi educ comunitatea și familia cu privire la aceste probleme, însă nu are efect. Cred că ai putea ajuta mult dacă ai face câteva video eseuri în română. Poate până la urmă, educarea este o chestiune de exemplu, sunt convinsă că și-ar schimba opinia dacă ar vedea cât de articulat vorbești despre aceste istorii și dacă ai face referire și la oamenii romi de cultură, activiști, etc.
Thank you for all these enlightening videos! Detailed information about the history of the Roma seems really hard to come by. My parents in law are Ashkali from Kosovo, but left for Scandinavia in the 80s, and know little to nothing about their peoples origin or history. They say the Ashkali culture and traditions are very different from the Roma traditions and culture, and see them as two totally separate groups of people. Though it is very obvious they share the same origin. You don't happen to know anything about this? Like, when did the two groups separate, and why?
So grateful for your content. I've learned so much about the Romani people watching your videos! As a writer, I am working on developing a character of Romani descent, and I aspire to bring as much nuance, fullness and authenticity to the character as I can. As a non-Romani, I will continue researching and exploring the beauty of Roma, and perhaps I will succeed in this endeavor. Thank you!
Don't give up the fight, does Romani's watching Hindi movies, I think that the rich Romani CAN do something for the poor Romani's,if all The working Romani collect 1% of their salary and support the poor Romani that gonna be good, many love from Suriname
❤ thank you for your awesome informative videos 📸 Romani people are beautiful and warm ❤I had some good solid friends in California, who were Bosnian Romani.... Such beautiful friends..much fun 🎉
Hello! Thank you for the informative content. I like your shorts too always worth it to see them on my dash Do you have any opinion of the show Infamy? I was looking for media with good rep and having seen an episode and googled the cast and writer/director I’m unsure. Don’t want to support content with poor rep in writing and/or casting because Google isn’t being especially forthcoming ):
Yes ive heard of it and watched a few episodes, im not really allowed to discuss netflix shows because of the actors strike, but Italian Romani activist Morena Shirin made a great post on her instagram account @nenaromani about why the show is bad represenation!
Honestly, whatever your people is doing, keep doing it. You guys managed to survive so many terrible stuffs and are still surviving in Europe. You’re heroes and should be proud of it!
I think part of the reason the stereo types exist is because people don't want to take accountability. It's easier to blame someone else. It's wrong, but we can become wiser through education.
It’s because of poverty, they leave Romania because they can’t get jobs due to racism and in London is the same thing and many aren’t even legally allowed to work due to anti-immigration laws so it creates a very rough situation
@@florida.florianyou do realise that up until end of 2020 Romanian Roma were able to legally work in the UK (and apply for a pre-settled status like everyone else and be allowed to stay). Yeah Brexit was voted and there’s anti migrant rhetoric too sadly but there were no anti migration laws making people sleep rough. Quite the opposite, there were people coming to the UK and applying for benefits and getting them. If you choose to make these videos please be objective and factually accurate. Yes there’s discrimination against Roma and migrants as well. But also in Romania there are efforts to help Roma and minority scholarships for university and volunteers tutoring school kids (I am speaking as a dual UK/Romanian National that grew up with Roma people and also volunteered and tutored Roma kids for years - the memory of this brilliant Roma teenage girl that I tutored for two years right before her family forced her to marry this guy and quit school will haunt me forever). Please do some research and try to see all of the nuances of an issue before making videos. Yes there’s discrimination and misunderstanding but then there’s also Roma people that perpetuate stereotypes (driving from Romania to the UK I was horrified by the amount of bmw/Audi/Mercedes driven by Roma which were aggressive in traffic, littered both on the highway and in parking lots; also some people that came to the UK and ate swans; or another Roma lady that tried to scam me in Paris). There’s both good and bad Roma just like the rest of us. And say what you will, Romania is actually not that poor anymore. But I’m guessing you live in the US and have your own preconceptions 🤷🏻♀️ maybe you should come visit some western Romanian cities, you’d be surprised.
Im so glad to hear there has been some improvement. Many years ago, i studied Romanian, in preparation for a hoped-for trip that never happened. I was shocked at the teacher's powerful prejudice against Roma. She warned us to stay away, that they were all dirty thieves, and couldn't be trusted. We asked her what kinds of jobs were available for the Roma people, and she said they had no jobs, no one would hire them. So we asked her how they were supposed to survive if they couldn't get a job. She just got angry and changed the subject.
Hi I’m of Indian descent in America and one time when I was a kid a non Indian person was telling me how the Indians “plagued” Europe as Romani and that Indian people were stealing their jobs here in America now too.Then I went home and asked my parents if we were thieves and plagues
I'm so glad covo that your explanating us but telling the gajde won't do any good. I know gajde my whole life when something is missing all heads turn towards me.
I am so pleased to see your RUclips channel. I worked along side Roma from firmer chekoslovakia and their aspirations were to have secure employment, good accommodation and a good education for their children. They smashed all my preconceptions of the romanticism of roma. To be marginalised de humanises people. We are all human and should have equal opportunities. Please keep educating us who arevignorant of your history. Thank you . Onwards and upwards
Gypsy Romani people are descendants from "Doma" caste which was made untouchables by rulling Caste Brahmean in their religious literatures. Their name Roma derived from "Doma". They left India because they faced discrimination by the rulling upper castes. Their DNA test revealed that they have Y DNA Haplogroup H which is native to South Indian people.South India people are native to India and Indus valley civilization.Doma people were very expert in music,dance, leather work and psychic reading.Even in today's India "Doma" people are invited by people to play a drum called Dholak in a occasion. Many present Indian castes are descendants from "Doma" like Chamar, Kalbeliya, Nat, Kanjer, Sansi, Banjara, Dumari,Bhangi etc. Neither they are belongs to Y DNA Haplogroup R1a nor any Upper Caste of Present India. So please don't correlate Roma people with the culture of the Upper caste people of India Who exploited Ancestors of Roma in India and Still they exploiting descendants of Doma Castes people in India. The word Roma is said to derived from "Doma" is a Dravidian word rather Sanskrit. Please correct yourself.
I know she is speaking Romanian, but I think she code switched to Romani because I heard some words that sound similar something I would here in Hindi.
I know this comment might not get seen but my great grandmother was romanichal and she never did anybody wrong and i love the culture and the romani way all my life the romani will all ways have the special place in my heart forever all over the wolrd.
Lots of love to Florian for making this video on our Romani brothers and sisters living in Europe. I watch and share all your videos. I am your biggest fan. Lots of ❤️ to Florian from Indian sister. 🇮🇳 Jai MahaBharat, Jai Hind 🙏
Dear Florian, if you don't mind, I would like to ask you about the late actor Davor Dujmovic, who starred in several movies directed by Emir Kusturica - Was he of Romany origin? It seems to me that he was, but when I looked him up, all that was written about his background was that he was "...born into a poor working-class family...", which I think is unfair. IF he was indeed a Rom, it should be mentioned and made public knowledge. A red flag went up for me when, since he was born in Sarajevo, NO mention was made of his ethnic origin, considering the ethnic diversity of Bosnia-Herzegovina, so if you can help me on this, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
One request to you brother, can you make interview video of gypsy and roma people. Actually we Indian are aware about These people but we can not understand him well.. Because of language Barrier And we are not in touch with eastern european country compare to uk or germany.
This is my longest video yet and while it did take a while to make, i’m really proud of how it came out! Now that it’s out consistent videos are coming back daily, and I want to thank y’all again for 100,000 subs!
Ps. Don’t mind how many times I say the word “stereotypes” in this video. 😅
Congrats on 100k!!! It's well deserved and I want to thank you for putting so much effort into all this! Also, I adore Zita's designs so much and that jacket suits you very well! 💙
We're proud too, thank you!
Wonderful job as always čhaveja❤ Sadly many will never change their attitudes....in one ear out the other daddy would say.
Bro you are doing good job , people should know about this discrimination
Keep your flag strongly , and come back to your own original land , where we sheltered every other community in the lap of Bharat here you are our own , so come back one by one
Congrats on your success in educating the public on Romani people. You said it just right. Stereotypes exist, but they are not the totality of a community. All communities contain a complex mix of personalities, both good, bad, and in between.
These stereotypes prevent people from getting jobs to which the other options enforce stereotypes.
create conditions that push some Roma people into crime to survive -> hold one person's actions as representative of an entire culture while withholding the context of those actions -> use that to justify creating conditions that push Roma people into crime. Rinse and repeat. It's an old game, and it's very disappointing to see so many people participating gleefully when this lesson should have been learned many times over by now
Not stereotypes but pattern recognition. Their culture is well known.
@moonrunrs Actually pattern recognition doesn't identify causes. and i recognize a pattern in both Black and Romani people being targeted by the law and pushed into poverty, pushing them to crime which is used to justify more prejudice and discrimination. however sometimes you don't need a pattern to identify a cause! for example, the cause of you leaving this comment seems to be that you're blaming a marginalized group of people for social issues because you refuse to grapple with the fact that the problems in your society were caused by your society and people from your general background with your general beliefs. hope this helped! ❤️
@@moonrunrs are you talking about culture, or stereotype? Being a mysterious thief that reads minds and dances on the streets because "it's part of their personality" is stereotypes. It's the food, language(s), dances, etc. that are a major part of Romani culture
@@Alex-c8l4t The examples of them around the world currently are everywhere. Again, it's just pattern recognition.
i am mixed rom and romanian.
I can confirm that discrimination against Roma in Romania was certainly very present in the 90s.
I left there because since I was a child I have always suffered both physical and psychological abuse and insults from classmates and from the teachers.
I was continually isolated from everyone else, and anyone who sought nonviolent contact was always scolded by the teachers.
When the other classmates learned to read and count, the teachers always made me draw.
After five years the attitude of the teachers still remained the same, and I was always alone.
At that point my parents decided that the situation was too dangerous for my future.
So we went away to another country with the only hope that everything I had been through up to that moment would never happen again.
We moved to Italy.
Due to gaps in math, I had to start a class younger than my age.
There were some positive changes, the best of all was that I could participate in all lessons and subjects, the teachers gave me the opportunity to read even to me who was not very familiar with the new language.
I continued to stay alone because even the parents of the new classmates told their children that they shouldn't have approached me because I might be sick, it was out of the question to let me play with them and it was absolutely forbidden to invite me to birthdays and parties.
throughout my life I have always had to deny being mixed Roma in order not to be penalized, or more simply to have the same rights and treatment as a normal person.
Thanks to your channel and your videos, I'm rediscovering a very important part of myself that I've kept hidden for too long.
Florian you are an inspiration to me, thank you for all you are doing
Wow, that’s horrible. I’m so sorry you had to go through that.
Glad you left romania but you should leave europe altogether
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Sorry bro😢 love from India
Mi dispiace che le mie persone ti hanno trattate cosi:(
You are fighting against discrimination in a ver effective way. You've corrected alot of misunderstandings in your videos. Thank you for helping others understand your culture and history.
i'm turkish and while there was a romani neighborhood where i grew up in istanbul, i admittedly didn't know that much about roma other than all the harmful stereotypes that society tells us... but you've genuinely changed this! thank you, i love your content.
As someone from the Philippines, the way Romani people are discriminated against reminds me of how the Badjao from my country are also being held to the same harmful stereotypes (beggars, pickpockets, scammers, uneducated, etc.)
All of these things are also being said about Native Americans/Canadians, African-Americans, Aboriginals of Australia, Maori Indigenous of New Zealand etc. It’s so f’d up.
You ever wonder why so many of these stereotypes are the same negative traits repeated over and over about so many different groups?
I mean... it's pretty obvious why. These groups were all marginalized to the degree that many members had to resort to doing these kinds of things, and/or were actively prevented from sustaining themselves through other means. It's kind of what happens when you force people to assimilate while preventing them from partaking in the means to do so and enforce a hierarchy about it.
If they weren't bad, they would be called goodjaos instead of badjaos. Think about that
Badjaos (an exonym, their real name for themselves is Sama people) are also known as Sea Gypsies because of their nomadic lifestyle in the seas of South East Asia. Interestingly, they also possess South Asian admixture (probably Dravidian) just like the early ancestors of the Roma people (though no indication they're related to one another).
As an author and a big into fantasy books I just wanted to say thank you for what you’ve been doing!! It’s opened my eyes so much and had made me think about things more and expanded my find from the representation I’ve been exposed to!! You are right representation matters!!
When I was a little kid, maybe 7 or 8, a girl joined my class at school. I was a pretty lonely kid but I made friends with her fast. For some reason, the adults didn't seem to like that I was spending time with her, but she was the best friend I had. Then one day she wasn't there any more. As an adult, adding the clues together, I think she was from a Traveller family and the adults didn't want me hanging around her because of the same kind of biases and judgements that are applied to Romani people. But she was kinder and friendlier to me than anyone else in that school and I am never going to forget that. The adults were wrong.
That’s so sweet. Do you remember her name? Maybe she’s on the internet somewhere!
Yeah travellers face awful discrimination in schools too. They get bullied relentlessly for their ethnicity l.
As a Romanian, I am so happy to see this! I am just glad to hear this kind of stuff because there is so much stereotyping and because I don’t have the inclination to throughly research this stuff, videos like this mean a lot because they make me aware of the Rroma reality without having to do much work, educating me in the easiest way possible.
I just added your video to my education-videos. As a teacher, I find your videos very educational and I will be having my students watch them! Thank you!
i’ve binge watched all your videos and shorts throughout today and I really applaud you for taking the responsibility of educating people about your culture. When I tell you I didn’t learn a single word about romani people one time in school the only thing I ever heard was the G word and the stereotypes spread. I never believed them cuz I know what it’s like to be racially stereotyped but i’m glad to have been taught so much about the culture !
Please keep doing these videos! I find them very interesting and informative. You are doing a fantastic job in educating us about Romani history and culture.
Thank you so much for this video & all your other efforts to educate others about the truth of the Romani people! As an non Romani from the US, my exposure to or understanding of Romani culture was very limited, my school never taught me about them . I didn’t even really know they existed, only seeing fragments of their culture in stereotypical “fortune teller “ roles in films or their fashion in hippie new age culture. It wasn’t till my late teens I even heard of Romani directly as most of the media I watched wouldn’t outright use the word or the G slur, merely calling them fortune tellers . Even when I did learn of them, it was from entertainment made by non Romani people such as the Hunchback of Notre Dame or Assassins Creed Revelations. I was very ignorant & am happy to finally be able to hear the truth from Romani people directly!
Just that. Everyone nerds to learn more about your culture. These stereotypes are misused for fearmongering all around Europe. You merely hear anything about Romani history or culture, even when we spoke about the gruesome acts done to Romani people in German concentration camps in school (I'm I'm from Germany). Even then, their suffering, history and vulnerable position in european societies were never really touched.
Multumesc Florian pentru toată munca ta ❤
You have been such a good jumping off point for my research! Discovered a large portion of my family immigrated to America from Romania and were Roma musicians/performers. So much of the culture and knowledge was lost to our family trying to fit into american culture and the typical American dream.
I'm not Romani, but I fully support! You are right in that education is key to ending racial stereotypes. Romani culture is amazing and has influenced the world, especially in the arts.
Thank you for sharing your culture. I love learning about the Roma from you because you have a very positive "We can change the world together through education" attitude. I feel like by just learning from you and making a change in my own misguided view points i am part of that change. I'm very grateful you are here to teach me and that you are so kind and positive and that you are so welcoming. Thank you and may you have a womderful day! ❤❤❤❤
Thank You for sharing this with us 🇺🇸
I'm very glad you are doing this work. I can't believe YT doesn't have more Romani voices.
I hope, now that you are doing longer videos, you have plans for a video on Germany. Very few people know how complex that history is. In Bavaria, west Germany, mostly Sinti families stayed in the area for 300 years! They Integrated well. Being craftsman, keepers of animals, healers of people and animals with plant medicine, and lovers of music, these things were also important to the Bavarians and they made very good neighbors for one another. This is why the Roma were comfortable and accepted there for so long and had the one of the best relationships with the non Roma anywhere in Europe.
I hope you mention this because Germany and German - romani history often focuses only on the devouring.
Even that is told in a way that ignores these deep ties. The romani were not strangers in the country.
300 years is about as long as the USA has been a country. Imagine if fascism came to America and there was a persecution of Irish Americans. To most people it would seem ridiculous, a return of long dead prejudices, targeting friends and neighbors who had lived in the community for generations. But then it's written in history as crimes against immigrants That's the truth of what it was like when Germany betrayed it's Roma population.
Please say something about this, because it seems there is only you to say it here on YT
As a romanian I am happy to find out about Din Viața Romilor, I cant way to check it out!Romanians desperately need to be educated on romani culture as discrimination is still very much present, young children are still indoctrinated with harmful stereotypes and I witness a lot of racism each day.
I deeply appreciate all of your efforts to educate people on romani culture, you explain things in a very lighthearted and profound way, I have been watching your videos for quite a while, they are very informative and the moment where you put in the effort to speak romanian again to express yourself on the show was very meaningful to me.
Yes I definitely recommend checking out the show, it’s full of so much great information about Roma in Romania!
I love your videos! Thank you for giving us all your time and teaching us about Romani culture!
I discovered your channel in RUclips Shorts. As much of a hellhole it tends to be, I enjoyed watching your short videos. I've recently found your longer videos and find them very interesting too. Btw I'd like to hear more about the Romani community in the United States as well as your experiences there. I've read that while only 0.3% of the United States population is Romani, that's about one million people.
I respect your work and hope your message spreads and creates an impact in Europe where the roma need it the most, I have some slight critiques though:
One critique is on the story of the romani palaces, I found the story of gold coins pretty idyllic, a story of hard work and fair reparations from the government, and I have found the full story to be more complex and violent than you'd expect (or probably not since we're talking about the Romanian government's treatment of the roma here), could be good for a video essay.
First I found the Financial Times "The gaudy, joyful palaces of the Roma" reporting on this architecture where they mention "Delia Grigore, a Romanian Romani writer, philologist and activist, says it was mainly the Kalderash or “coppersmith” Roma who started to build these palaces." (they forgot to mention her Doctorate in the Anthropology of the Romani culture), "The fall of communism did not just give the opportunity to build these houses but the means too, he says. Many Roma had already been in the scrap-metal business before the regime changed as tinkers and dealers, marginalised from other occupations. Then, after the fall, “lots of factories went bankrupt and sold their contents, the goods, machines, cables, tracks - and the Roma dealers bought it. They could make a lot of money,” says Florin Nasture, a Roma community organiser" this sounds like the most plausible way they could've made this money, a lot of Romanian millionaires got their riches this way and the local industry was being bought and scrapped, the rest of the story is a good read though. But the story of the gold coins is more interesting.
You can find the sequence of events in "Chronology for Roma in Romania" from refworld or the news article "Gypsies demand compensation from Romania" from United Press International (UPI), the story of the Romanian "King of the Roma Everywhere" is interesting too.
The other critique is on the roma party president, I don't have a problem with the activists that team up under the party I have a problem with its leadership since they're not just politicians, but Romanian politicians and they have a history of corruption and collusion with the ruling parties and I wouldn't be surprised of this since this was during a period of rampant corruption in Romania, it still is. He also doesn't need to worry about voter lashback for poor governance or for lying to his voter base since his seat is given to him regardless for being the president of the roma party and parties representing minorities always get given at least one seat in parliament, the majority of the roma don't even vote for the roma party. What I'm most mad for is that over 15 000 000 lei worth of funds that didn't reach the roma community that needed it the most under his supervision, that was 77% of the funding lost.
He is also a member of the chamber of deputies that writes laws. He passed an ordinance bill late during the night regarding the pardoning of certain committed crimes, and the amendment of the Penal Code of Romania (especially regarding the abuse of power) to free up space in the prisons, opponents raised accusations that the ordinance was intended for decriminalisation of government corruption, and to help hundreds of current and former politicians to escape ongoing criminal investigations or prison sentences including the president of the ruling party of Romania at the time, because of this 600 000 Romanians protested around the world for the biggest protest we had since the revolution and it lasted from 2017 to 2019 and we suffered casualties of 467 people injured because of this.
I wish you all the success and hope you achieve all you've ever wished, good luck.
Thank you for your hard work and clarification. 🙂 So much to learn...
I'm so glad that I found you and your content. I'm not Romani but I always wanted to know why they face so much racism and prejudices. Lately Netflix released a (polish?) series, called Infamy, about a Romani Family and I'm torn about how to sort the portrayal of Romani culture. Have you seen the series yet? If yes: what do you think about it?
When I was in Bucharest I saw tons of private homes with barbed wire around them. I wonder why the owners would go trough all that trouble to set it up??
I started watching your videos because there are highly contested rumors in my family that my grandfather’s mother was Sinti. Whether she was or wasn’t didn’t matter to me too much as I’m not Sinti. I’m just a white American. But it did spark a curiosity and a desire to understand what I can. Thank you
I met a lovely Romani family from Romania. They were absolutely the nicest people. They were here visiting family. I wish I could go there but that is just a dream for me. They taught me a lot about Romania and their culture. Best two weeks I had to enjoy someone else traditions.
I'm very grateful to you for doing all this educational work!! I was able to learn so much about the Romani people from your channel and started paying more attention to clothes patterns (and whether they are appropriative)
imi place ca esti dedicat sa ne recuperi cultura ❤
I love your efforts to educate on both the truth about Romani people & the harm stereotypical roles have caused. Something I am curious about if you don’t mind me asking, is what your thoughts are on some of the fictional fantasy races or species that are not technically Romani but it’s clear they’re either influenced by or an allegory for them? The first one that comes to my mind is the Kajhit from the Elder Scrolls series. As an outsider, I could guess that these fictional groups may still help spread harmful stereotypes , but I have also seen them be used to point out injustices & prejudices groups like that have to go through. I thought it be best to ask you as I do not wish to assume the opinions on these kind of media portrayals from the perspective of a culture I am not a part of.
It’s best in all cases, even when just loose inspiration, to consult Romani people to see how the representation may affect our community and if it is spreading negative stereotypes.
@@florida.florian i do Larp as a hobby, and I encounter a lot of people portraying "Zaori" (clearly inspired by Romani poeple). Their most common argument for them choosing these character concepts is, that they are 'only playing with the harmful stereotypes' which are supposedly DISTINCT from the actual Romani culture, hence it's not appropriation (same goes for Voodoo, btw). Like it's 'just the pop culture gypsies' (not my wording). I have a VERY HARD TIME with this take. German Larp community is generally a very progressive and wholesome one, but this particular issue is bothering me a bunch.
@@nannaxie9405"Only playing with the harmful stereotypes" seems like a dangerous perspective.
My take on it is this: those stereotypes have been used in the name of slavery, genocide, racism, and hate crimes that exist to this day. In the lives of millions of people, they are no game. To "play" with those stereotypes is not only to perpetuate them, it is to downplay their severity and do a tremendous injustice to the people who have been their targets.
romani or gypsy are banjaras of india , who travelled all over the world for trading(bhai lakki shsh banjara = richest man in south asia) and after the fall of pruthvi raj chauhan , we spread all over the country(remember at that time their was no pakisthan and afghanisthan , it was all under akhand bharath) ....we have mainly four clans chauhans(chouhan,chowhan,chavan)=agnivanshi,rathods(rathore)suryavanshi,jadhav(jadhaun)=chandra vanshi,pawar(parmar)=agni vanshi , banjaras are very fair in skin and kshatriya warriors. and the over all banjara population is 12 crores above according to 2011 census ,only in india . if you add our romani brothers and sisters ,their are much more.......banjaras (lamani or lubana or lobana or vanjara or sugali etc...) used to supply gunpowder(potassium nitrate salt) , thats why they are called lavani(salt trader) and many items....they are highly rich in culture.they are financially rich at that time....but in 1871 the criminal act was imposed on banjaras by the britishers as banjaras physicallly and mentally highy strong , they were opposing britishers....after imposiing of criminal act on them ,then thy statred to move far away from the society , some of them left states, some them left countires, some of them went deep into the forests to hide from britishers....banjaras in punjab are under obc category , in arunachal pradesh they are in general and in kerala they are in general ,in telanagan and andhara pradesh they are under st, in madhya pradesh obc, in rajstthan obc etc...we devottee maa jagadhamba,tulja bhavani.....and sikhs people has highy respect to banjaras in punjab because bhai lakki shah banjara and makhan shah lubana helped 9th sikh guru , guru tegh bahadur (search about him in wikipedia for clear expanation) and they capital city of india(delhi) was the land of bhai lakki shah banjara and the red for(laal khila) and many forts were built by the help of lakki shah banjara because he has 3lakh plus of buffalos, thousand of horses and elephants....bhai makkhan shah lubana was dealt with export and import, where as bhai lakki sahh banjara expanaded all over the india and many asian places for trading....famous muslim poet said that, " bhai lakki shah banjara you are not the richest man in the world ,their is another one he is none other than allah",you can imagine how rich he was,that a man is being compared with god.....and their is a famous line that,"if you want to know about banjara history then you are finding a needle in a grass of garden"....comment your doubts and this is 0.000001 % about history of banjaras.....sorry for my english
nice video!! I hope your channel gets bigger ❤️
this is why i love this channel ❤❤
Quite revealing. Keep up the good work
Superbe, merci beaucoup ❤️
Un beau travail très utile, ma seule déception serait qu’il n’est pas vu davantage !
Hey thank u for educating us :) i really enjoy your content
As an Indian I relate to a lot of the struggles faced by the Roma community. Even Indians are seen as "scammers" by westerners, the mainstream media in western countries try to enforce the stereotype that all Indians are scammers, especially telephone scammers.
Oh that’s because westerners get telephone scams from your country regularly. It’s not as bad as Nigeria though.
I’m not saying that stereotyping all Indians is ok, but there is a reason for that one specifically.
@@flutenanyidk1806 Until the day that they are able to be provided with stable jobs and not taken advantage of by the west, unfortunately they will have to rely on scams to feed their families and keep a roof over their heads.
It sucks doubly because people in India are often hired by Western companies [many of ill repute] solely to avoid paying people a living wage in the States... So Indian people who are desperate for work & don't know better end up at call centres that we in the US know to be sketchy. Meaning that the basis of the stereotype is largely due to unethical corporations & exploitation of the poor.
But you have to have a inner compass about what is the right thing to do to survive. But I do know it’s difficult! Love to everyone!
Congratulations on meeting (and interviewing!) Zita Moldovan in person
Hi Florian you should also visit India & build bridges between India & Romanis
My friend Tida, her siblings, cousins are all first generation American. I think she said her father came to America as a refugee in the 60s and had a treacherous journey to escape Romania. She did a DNA test a few years ago and a large percentage of ancestry is from India. Tida has a huge family and she grew up strict Roman catholic from a Romanian church.
Standing with Roma community educating myself. I am gadje who is beautifully accepted by this community
Gypsies I know have only recently become more able to get opportunities.
I bless you my brother
for standing in the gap
i am from Brazil, and i've seen romani people even in my city and didn't know much about them, only superficial steriotypes. Thanks to your videos, I know now it is such a beautiful culture and people who have endured so many hardships, and are still strong!
Thank you for the education though this channel!
Excellent video and superbly presented. I am a Jamaican and am shocked to learn how much we have in common. Stay blessed and keep them coming.🇯🇲💪🔥💯
Florian, thank you for an extremely powerful presentation. I am not Roma but I have great respect for the culture and deep empathy for the appalling treatment that the people have been subjected to.
As a child in Glasgow, Scotland, the few Romani people I knew or encountered left me with a positive experience. There was a group who used to do plays and puppet shows in the backyards of the tenement buildings. They could transform the place into a magical realm with trellises of paper flowers for a set. And they were very kind to me, teaching me how to make flowers.
In my adult life in Canada, I have friends who travelled to Europe and told me how they were warned by the locals about “gypsies,” many repeating the very negative stereotypes you discuss in this video. Hearing that always made me angry. I detest all forms of discrimination. As you say, there will always be people who chose a bad lifestyle, but that occurs in every culture.
I am so pleased to have found your channel where I can broaden my understanding of who the Romani really are. 💙❤💚
Man! you're fluent in English, Romani and Romanian
I hope you do some videos about Romani values. I really need some education about that subject.
I am proud of how bright and committed you sounded on tv.
I appreciate the work you are doing, Florian. I am happy to learn about your culture. I am sorry to say that in England, although racism is much less common now, for some reason people think it's ok to mindlessly criticise Roma people and travellers generally. Time to change that.
That was a pleasure to watch, it’s nice to see some positive news. While there is a long way to go I think having a political party will help to make Romania a lucrative and attractive country for Romani people in the future.
Zita Moldovan ❤❤❤ such an amazing human and artist!
Well made video! Kudos to your hard work & enthusiasm to spread awareness about the Romani people. Very impressed to hear their success stories as well. Keep up the good work!
I’m a US citizen with Roma ancestry. My family came here and did not do so well and fell apart, not just from our culture, but from one another. Years of bad family issues… I myself have been homeless on the streets since 16. My life has been very hard to say the least. Now, I am trying so hard to go back to school, and many other things. I am learning about what it means to be Roma. I do not speak any Romani. I know some Hungarian, which is where my family had moved from. I have no culture myself. I have no tribe. I do not even have friends currently. I just got off the streets and am staying with my cousin. I just saw my aunt recently and we talked about being Roma, but I didn’t honestly even know what that meant. I remember my mother telling me when I was really young that we were Gypsies, but I didn’t even really know what that meant outside of the stereotypes. Here in US, Gypsies are kind of synonymous with hippies in a way that hippies really like Roma art and style I think. This is funny, and pretty random, but I taught myself guitar and developed a really unique and odd style of playing. People I have met have told me they like it and that I am making the guitar sound like a sitar… and I wonder if harmonics and musical vibrations can be stored in the memory of our bodies in a way that somehow this musical style that I play, perhaps it is the music of my ancestors and I just never really knew why I liked it, but it was what came natural to me when I taught myself to play and wrote my own songs. I am a Roma. A Gypsy, but not Egyptian. My DNA tests confirm we are Roma. My aunt said we are Romani, but I learned today that I think we are Roma, but that we do not speak Romani which is the language of the Roma. I want to get my own culture right, although like I said I feel I have no culture, no home. I have moved 1,000 in this country, never a home or place to belong to, and I am surprised I am not dead sometimes after all the crazy things I have been through. When I learn more of my own people and what it was like for us before we came to the USA and how we are still treated in Europe, I am appalled and upset, but I see that tbh my life here has been akin to my kin abroad… I want to learn my culture and my language. I want something to be proud of. I wish to some day have a home so I can start a farm, build a giant telescope and laboratory, and raise goats, grow my own foods, and study science, mathematics and philosophy… I am off the streets now and trying to go back to school soon. My cousin did it and is working as an engineer now… I will follow your channel and learn all I can from you about our people. My great great grandparents went through so much to get here, but I’ll not be ashamed of our culture… it seems after a generation passed, that we became Americanized and gave up all of our culture from before. Well, most of it… tiny things survived that I am seeing here and there as I learn about my people abroad. It’s good to feel a part of something in a way, but also sad that I also do not really feel a part of it because of ignorance and lack of family ties or something… idk. Anyways, thank you for your videos. Take care :)
Best of luck to you on your journey of reconnecting with your heritage. May you find the deep love of your culture woven into your being.
It is good you are shedding light on romani people. It has been an educational for me and i guess for people who are watching it. Thanks
Omg Im so excited I didn't expect you to make such a long video. I love your content and im so happy you've taken the jump to make something that takes so much extra work but hopefully can inform so many people. ❤
I am American...i get 2 recation. We are either awful or mythical. Im going through legal problems and my ex is absolutely gonna use that im romani against me. He says we cannot be trusted and are bad
So good to see strong voices speaking out for the most marginalised people in Europe ❤
I'm a Romanian living abroad and I appreciate the work you're doing in spreading awareness on the Romani culture and the Romani community's experiences within the larger society but I have to respectfully disagree with you on saying that the Romanian Romas are leaving Romania in droves because of lack of opportunity specfic to their ethnicity. There are aprox 3 milion Romanians living abroad and most are Ethnic Romanians not Roma, Romanian Romas are only a small minority of the Romanian diaspora. Sadly, there's a general lack of opportunity for all Romanians in Romania and that's not at all specific to the Roma, it impacts the entire population more or less equally. Another reason for the Romanian Roma's leaving Romania in significantly larger numbers then average is simply due to the fact that Romania has by far the largest Roma population in Europe estimated at around 2.5 milion so it rather makes sense that the Romanian Roma emmigant community would be much larger then that from other European country.
❤✨✨ from India 🇮🇳🇮🇳
Love how resourceful they are, great performers
Bună, Florian! Și eu sunt originară din Craiova.
Apreciez foarte mult munca pe care o faci!
Te rog, creează un videoclip în care să vorbești despre toate aceste teme pe care le abordezi; despre reprezentarea malignă, despre problema de vizibilitate a autoreprezentării rome și despre discriminarea sistemică. Aș vrea să pot să împărtășesc videoclipurile tale cu oamenii din comunitatea mea care încă cred în stereotipurile rasiale.
Am încercat de foarte multe ori să îmi educ comunitatea și familia cu privire la aceste probleme, însă nu are efect. Cred că ai putea ajuta mult dacă ai face câteva video eseuri în română. Poate până la urmă, educarea este o chestiune de exemplu, sunt convinsă că și-ar schimba opinia dacă ar vedea cât de articulat vorbești despre aceste istorii și dacă ai face referire și la oamenii romi de cultură, activiști, etc.
Thank you for all these enlightening videos! Detailed information about the history of the Roma seems really hard to come by.
My parents in law are Ashkali from Kosovo, but left for Scandinavia in the 80s, and know little to nothing about their peoples origin or history. They say the Ashkali culture and traditions are very different from the Roma traditions and culture, and see them as two totally separate groups of people. Though it is very obvious they share the same origin.
You don't happen to know anything about this? Like, when did the two groups separate, and why?
So grateful for your content. I've learned so much about the Romani people watching your videos! As a writer, I am working on developing a character of Romani descent, and I aspire to bring as much nuance, fullness and authenticity to the character as I can. As a non-Romani, I will continue researching and exploring the beauty of Roma, and perhaps I will succeed in this endeavor. Thank you!
I think I also heard the slur used to refer some people that live in boats in Bangladesh, I think it was.
I heard those stereotypes a lot too
That jacket looks really cool, Florian! Well done on the video :)
Don't give up the fight, does Romani's watching Hindi movies, I think that the rich Romani CAN do something for the poor Romani's,if all The working Romani collect 1% of their salary and support the poor Romani that gonna be good, many love from Suriname
Thank you for thisl! The world needs to hear about this.
❤ thank you for your awesome informative videos 📸 Romani people are beautiful and warm ❤I had some good solid friends in California, who were Bosnian Romani.... Such beautiful friends..much fun 🎉
I was lookingfor th right information of gipsy culture , thank you very interesting
Hello! Thank you for the informative content. I like your shorts too always worth it to see them on my dash
Do you have any opinion of the show Infamy? I was looking for media with good rep and having seen an episode and googled the cast and writer/director I’m unsure. Don’t want to support content with poor rep in writing and/or casting because Google isn’t being especially forthcoming ):
Yes ive heard of it and watched a few episodes, im not really allowed to discuss netflix shows because of the actors strike, but Italian Romani activist Morena Shirin made a great post on her instagram account @nenaromani about why the show is bad represenation!
wow, this is interesting, a lot of the mainstream media and big companies do similar stuff with indian culture too, and do not give us credit
Honestly, whatever your people is doing, keep doing it. You guys managed to survive so many terrible stuffs and are still surviving in Europe. You’re heroes and should be proud of it!
I’m from Australia but my maternal great grandfather was Romani from Chișinău. What language were you speaking in your interview?
I have to see you do a video on Django Reinhardt!
Doing a good job, cousin😊. Keep it up! ❤❤❤
Please talk about Romani cuisine and what its influence are and how it changed as Romanis travelled the path that they did..
Very informative!! I think you need to show the good your peoples does. There are good and bad peoples all over the world!
I think part of the reason the stereo types exist is because people don't want to take accountability. It's easier to blame someone else. It's wrong, but we can become wiser through education.
I don’t believe the stereotypes but we have many from Romania sleeping rough in London all year round
It’s because of poverty, they leave Romania because they can’t get jobs due to racism and in London is the same thing and many aren’t even legally allowed to work due to anti-immigration laws so it creates a very rough situation
@@florida.florianyou do realise that up until end of 2020 Romanian Roma were able to legally work in the UK (and apply for a pre-settled status like everyone else and be allowed to stay). Yeah Brexit was voted and there’s anti migrant rhetoric too sadly but there were no anti migration laws making people sleep rough. Quite the opposite, there were people coming to the UK and applying for benefits and getting them. If you choose to make these videos please be objective and factually accurate. Yes there’s discrimination against Roma and migrants as well. But also in Romania there are efforts to help Roma and minority scholarships for university and volunteers tutoring school kids (I am speaking as a dual UK/Romanian National that grew up with Roma people and also volunteered and tutored Roma kids for years - the memory of this brilliant Roma teenage girl that I tutored for two years right before her family forced her to marry this guy and quit school will haunt me forever). Please do some research and try to see all of the nuances of an issue before making videos. Yes there’s discrimination and misunderstanding but then there’s also Roma people that perpetuate stereotypes (driving from Romania to the UK I was horrified by the amount of bmw/Audi/Mercedes driven by Roma which were aggressive in traffic, littered both on the highway and in parking lots; also some people that came to the UK and ate swans; or another Roma lady that tried to scam me in Paris). There’s both good and bad Roma just like the rest of us. And say what you will, Romania is actually not that poor anymore. But I’m guessing you live in the US and have your own preconceptions 🤷🏻♀️ maybe you should come visit some western Romanian cities, you’d be surprised.
Im so glad to hear there has been some improvement. Many years ago, i studied Romanian, in preparation for a hoped-for trip that never happened. I was shocked at the teacher's powerful prejudice against Roma. She warned us to stay away, that they were all dirty thieves, and couldn't be trusted. We asked her what kinds of jobs were available for the Roma people, and she said they had no jobs, no one would hire them. So we asked her how they were supposed to survive if they couldn't get a job. She just got angry and changed the subject.
Love the jacket ❤
To be honest both formats short and long are cool- but I prefer long videos hah they're quite few comparing to shorts
Interesting video
Thank you so much for sharing this with us.
Well done. I hope millions of people come and watch your videos.
Hi I’m of Indian descent in America and one time when I was a kid a non Indian person was telling me how the Indians “plagued” Europe as Romani and that Indian people were stealing their jobs here in America now too.Then I went home and asked my parents if we were thieves and plagues
As an English Roma who has long lost contact with the roots of my family, I long to witness some Roma culture in person.
I'm so glad covo that your explanating us but telling the gajde won't do any good. I know gajde my whole life when something is missing all heads turn towards me.
I am so pleased to see your RUclips channel. I worked along side Roma from firmer chekoslovakia and their aspirations were to have secure employment, good accommodation and a good education for their children. They smashed all my preconceptions of the romanticism of roma. To be marginalised de humanises people. We are all human and should have equal opportunities. Please keep educating us who arevignorant of your history. Thank you . Onwards and upwards
Gypsy Romani people are descendants from "Doma" caste which was made untouchables by rulling Caste Brahmean in their religious literatures. Their name Roma derived from "Doma". They left India because they faced discrimination by the rulling upper castes. Their DNA test revealed that they have Y DNA Haplogroup H which is native to South Indian people.South India people are native to India and Indus valley civilization.Doma people were very expert in music,dance, leather work and psychic reading.Even in today's India "Doma" people are invited by people to play a drum called Dholak in a occasion. Many present Indian castes are descendants from "Doma" like Chamar, Kalbeliya, Nat, Kanjer, Sansi, Banjara, Dumari,Bhangi etc. Neither they are belongs to Y DNA Haplogroup R1a nor any Upper Caste of Present India. So please don't correlate Roma people with the culture of the Upper caste people of India Who exploited Ancestors of Roma in India and Still they exploiting descendants of Doma Castes people in India. The word Roma is said to derived from "Doma" is a Dravidian word rather Sanskrit. Please correct yourself.
nice comment 🎊 🎉
I am very happy for you! Great job! Keep up the good work!
I know she is speaking Romanian, but I think she code switched to Romani because I heard some words that sound similar something I would here in Hindi.
I know this comment might not get seen but my great grandmother was romanichal and she never did anybody wrong and i love the culture and the romani way all my life the romani will all ways have the special place in my heart forever all over the wolrd.
So, what is the Romani wheel? I wish she'd shown an example.
My Grandfather was a red-headed Romani but from Hungary. I am red-headed too❤
Lots of love to Florian for making this video on our Romani brothers and sisters living in Europe. I watch and share all your videos. I am your biggest fan. Lots of ❤️ to Florian from Indian sister. 🇮🇳
Jai MahaBharat, Jai Hind 🙏
Dear Florian, if you don't mind, I would like to ask you about the late actor Davor Dujmovic, who starred in several movies directed by Emir Kusturica - Was he of Romany origin? It seems to me that he was, but when I looked him up, all that was written about his background was that he was "...born into a poor working-class family...", which I think is unfair. IF he was indeed a Rom, it should be mentioned and made public knowledge. A red flag went up for me when, since he was born in Sarajevo, NO mention was made of his ethnic origin, considering the ethnic diversity of Bosnia-Herzegovina, so if you can help me on this, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.
One request to you brother, can you make interview video of gypsy and roma people. Actually we Indian are aware about These people but we can not understand him well.. Because of language Barrier And we are not in touch with eastern european country compare to uk or germany.