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Written by Alin Dosoftei
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Friday, 16 November 2007 23:24 |
© 2000-2007 Alin Dosoftei. All rights reserved.
Generally speaking, the identity of a group of people (ethnic, religious or other) is an issue that gained tremendous importance according as the modern evolutions in communication and mass education broke the isolation of every local culture. Their specific worldviews, previously assumed as obvious and normal by their followers, increasingly, for some centuries, get relativizing each other and also find themselves put under pressure by the fast evolution of the ways of life. This put an end to the unquestionable identification with the cultural items and habits that made the social fabric of a specific group of people. Usually, the answer to this social uncertainty was to struggle for the preservation of the earlier status, to patch up every gap in the public conscience produced by the modern process described above. |
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Written by Alin Dosoftei
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Friday, 16 November 2007 23:22 |
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© 2000-2007 Alin Dosoftei. All rights reserved. The Romani people, as a result of the new diasporic context, crystallized in the 11th-12th centuries in Anatolia, reorganizing their identity, with a focus on the basics, fundamentals, as expressed by the meaning of the ethnic names: Rom (“married person”)/Chhavo (“unmarried person”), Kalo (“black”), Manush (“human being”). Thus it appeared the Romani social organization, way of life (Romanipen, Romaniya, probably also other names, depending on the dialects), with a set of purity rules that supported the coherence of those fundamentals’ expression among people with different ways of life. |
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