Von Zigeunern und Menschen
On Gypsies and Human Beings

Summary/Abstract: The Gypsies are the most unpopular people in Europe. They have no home and no lobby. Their number makes them the largest ethnic minority on the continent. With six to eight million people, their group is larger than many state-building people. After the decimation of the Jews, the expulsion and return of ethnic Germans, they are the only European people. They have never won political influence. Only a handful of Gypsies across Europe - Nicolae Gheorghe in Romania, Santino Spinelli in Italy - have made the leap into the academic bourgeoisie and kept their gypsy identity. The non-gypsy advocates - Grattan Puxon, Jean-Pierre Liegois, Tilman Zülch or Mirella Karpati - are largely unknown and largely ineffective. Nobody feels like a racist because he does not like Gypsies.

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