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The Roma have an exotic image: musicians, actors, artists, and sometimes beggars. Europeans called them `Gypsies' because they thought they came from Egypt. But Romani people have lived in Europe for over a thousand years, and they originally came from India, not Egypt.
Roma communities in Europe have been subjected to centuries of persecution and racism. They are one of the most excluded groups in the world. They are denied the chance to work, proper housing, healthcare and their children refused a decent education. A new initiative - the Decade of Roma Inclusion - was launched in 2005 in a concerted attempt to help break the desperate cycle of poverty in which so many Roma live.
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Citation
Main credits
Tatham, Di (film producer)
Hoptrough, Lynn (editor of moving image work)
Kelly, Brenda (film producer)
Bower, Dick (film producer)
Briers, Lucy (narrator)
Other credits
Editor, Lynn Hoptrough; music, Bela Lakatos, Russka Roma; executive producer, Brenda Kelly; series producer, Dick Bower.
Anthropology; Ethics; Europe; European Studies; Geography; Globalization; History; Human Rights; Humanities; Millennium Development Goals; Poverty; Race and Racism; Racism; Social Justice; Sociology; United Nations
Keywords
Roma, poverty, persecution, gypsies, India, racism, Decade of Roma Inclusion, Romani; "Roma Rights"; Bullfrog Films
Distributor: Bullfrog Films
Length: 22 minutes
Date: 2006
Genre: Expository
Language: English
Grade: 7-12, College, Adult
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