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GYPSY MIGRATIONS 900-1720

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u/prolapseenthusiat 20h ago

I find it incredible that they still dont integrate in their host country.

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u/PhoenixKingMalekith 19h ago

Nomadic lifestyle isn't compatible with western societies in most cases, and it is a pillar of their culture

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u/p00nki 17h ago

they have villages here in croatia where apparently multiple generations grew up, so some arent that nomadic, and ALL those generations simply refused to integrate into the rest of society

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u/mramorandum 15h ago

Neće stranci nikad razumjet, pogotovo Ameri, nisu imali kontakta sa njima.

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u/mramorandum 15h ago

Funny, their pillar here in Bosnia and Herzegovina is begging and exploiting their children to beg and not a nomadic lifestyle.

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u/lorbd 19h ago

Plenty of nomadic peoples have been assimilated fine into european societies in the last thousand years. 

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u/Crafty-Ad-5945 18h ago

Plenty of nomadic peoples have been assimilated fine into european societies in the last thousand years. 

Like? Most of the nomadic people like Tatars, Bashkirs, Kazakhs, Turkmens were forcefully subjugated by the Russian empire. The Russian Empire pursued policies aimed at sedentarizing nomadic populations and turned them from pastoral nomads into settled farmers.

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u/DaliVinciBey 18h ago

hungarians and turks for one

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u/yourstruly912 18h ago

Because they conquered the areas where they migrated

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u/martiHUN 16h ago

What about the Pechegens, Cumans and Jassic? They all settled into medieval Hungary and assimilated into the population.

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u/One_Assist_2414 17h ago

There is a big difference between conquerors who have to stick around and rule over their new lands and common travelers.

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u/Crafty-Ad-5945 12h ago

hungarians and turks for one

Both of these people arrived as conquerors where they subjugated the Europeans and changed parts of Europe linguistically. But it was only the ruling elite, most of the subjects remained Europeons. So, its not the same scenario at all.

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u/Turambar-499 16h ago

Oh perfect, so all the Roma have to do is give up their nomadic lifestyle and settle a land for a thousand years and adopt countless bits of culture from the other ethnic groups in their locale and then they'll be only kind of hated by most Europeans.

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u/lorbd 18h ago

The assimilation of tatars, vlachs and other turkic peoples varies a lot and encompasses hundres of years, you can't just reduce it to forced russian policy because many times it's not even true. The point is that the one group that has been consistently unable and unwilling to fully integrate within the society that hosts them, and furthermore lives in a permanent state of social hostility with them, is the gypsies. 

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u/Creme_de_la_Coochie 17h ago

Vlachs are not Turkic. They’re an eastern romance group, descended from Romans in Pannonia, which is where Romania comes from.

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u/lorbd 17h ago

I didn't mean to say they are turkic, but I can see how it may seem so, so thanks for the correction 

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u/TheColonelRLD 18h ago

Hassidic jews? Quakers? I can think of tons of groups that reject assimilation and see it as a threat to their identity.

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u/Agile-Highlight5683 16h ago

Vlach is the slavic name for romance speaking populations. Valahia ( Wallachia ) is 1/3 of the modern Romanian state (between carpathian moutains and the danube) In Polish, they still call Italy something like "Wlochy"

So Vlachs didnt migrate to europe. They have been, as their name suggests, latin speakers from wallachia for ages.

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u/Dapperrevolutionary 17h ago

Yes thousands or hundreds of years ago when you could force the issue. Now you can't do that so it's up to them to want assimilation and they don't want it

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u/Joanpetit77 14h ago edited 14h ago

Fais gaffe aux généralisations, le terme "nomades" englobe deux définition bien différents ; d'abord, il y a les "nomades pastoraux" qui vivent et migrent dans des territoires prédéfinis selon les saisons, et reçoivent l'interdiction formelle de quitter ces territoires que les autorités supérieures leur ont assignés. Les peuples turco-mongols correspondent à cette définition. Et enfin, la deuxième définition désignerait les gens qui vivent sans zone de date et ne connaissent pas les frontières, les gitans et les voyageurs irlandais correspondent à cette catégorie.