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Gypsy Kings

 

            The most popular argument in recent years are the equality between people and human .
             rights so several human rights organizations are founded for solving these problems. Despite .
             these good endeavors, nobody care about the discrimination towards gypsies because of their .
             ethnicity. I think, the only reason for this problem is; there is such a inherited hatred in people .
             mind because this problem is retrospective.
             .
             The reasons for this discrimination are not difficult to identify. Firstly the .
             discrimination begins with the refence boks such as famous encyclopedias and dictionaries. .
             Because the definitions of word " Gypsy " is quite absurd. For example the 1911 edition of .
             the Encyclopedia Britannica describes gypsies as " gaudy, ostentatious, boastful,arroant and .
             superstioious." and in its 1958 edition tells that " Gypsies have the mental image of a child of .
             ten that they have never accomplished anything." In addition to this source "The Oxford .
             English Dictionary" described Gypsy as "a cunning rogue,deceitful and fickle". According to .
             these definitions, nobody can have a positive attitude towards gypsies. For example; we .
             assume that a teenager who wants to get information about gypsies, goes to the library then he .
             generally would prefer to read these popular sources for collecting infos so he will has a .
             prejudice towards gypsies when he meets them during his lifetime. Nevertheless if the .
             community has same tendency, gypsies have to live in outskirts of the cities and they have to .
             be together for less-discriminated life. From this point, the gypsy people look like the jewish .
             community and they put distance between themselves and the others. "This distance between .
             the Gypsies and us has been intentionally created by both sides." (Sway, Marlene. "Gypsy Life .
             in America", 1988) In contrast gypsies aren't as lucky as jewish people because they have .
             never had as much money as jewish. Thus they have never had a chance to do some notable .


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