Friday, November 28, 2014

AmRen - F. Roger Devlin: Europe’s First Underclass - The Gypsy problem and its origins "I found myself sympathizing with the Gypsies in the face of earnest efforts to integrate them. EU and UN bureaucrats with little knowledge and less experience of Gypsies and their problems persist in imagining that they are only one new program or policy away from producing the first generation of Gypsy PhDs. The principle root of this delusion is, of course, a refusal to accept differences between human populations–this refusal is perhaps the single greatest cause of avoidable evils in the West today."


Europe’s First Underclass

Gypsy family

 The Gypsy problem and its origins.
Jelena Čvorović, The Roma: A Balkan Underclass, Ulster Institute for Social Research, 2014, 254 pp., $25.00 paperback, £5 e-book.
Today’s immigration disaster in Europe is liable to make us forget that a significant racially alien underclass has already lived on the continent for centuries: the Gypsies, or “Roma.” Jelena Čvorović, an anthropologist at the Ethnographic Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, is the author of two previous books and many scholarly papers on Serbian Gypsies. In this new title from Richard Lynn’s Ulster Institute, she uses r/K selection theory to analyze Europe’s centuries-old “Gypsy problem.”
From Northwest India
The ancestors of Europe’s Gypsy population originated in Northwest India, moving West, for unknown reasons, about AD 800-950. They were never a homogeneous nation, but, as Dr. Čvorović puts it, a “conglomerate of genetically isolated founder populations,” with greater genetic diversity than Europeans. Their language, Romany, includes loan words indicating that Gypsies passed through Persia and Armenia, and Byzantine records show that they reached Constantinople by 1054. From Greece, they fanned out across the Balkan Peninsula, and the earliest reports of their presence in Europe date from the 14th century. Some Gypsies traveled as far as France, Spain, and even Britain, but the largest concentrations remain in Eastern Europe:
Country                                   Absolute Numbers                Percentage of Population
Bulgaria                                  750,000                                   10.33
Macedonia                              200,000                                   9.59
Slovakia                                  500,000                                   9.17
Romania                                 1,850,000                                8.32
Serbia                                      600,000                                   8.18
Hungary                                  700,000                                   7.05
[Estimates by Council of Europe, 2010]
The total Gypsy population of Europe is thought to be between 10 and 12 million–greater than the populations of such nations as Hungary or Sweden. They are known by a variety of names, such as Sinti, Manouches, Travelers, Kalo, Romanichals, Tsigani and Gitans. The most commonly used English word, “Gypsy,” is a corruption of “Egyptian,” and reflects the mistaken belief that they originated in Egypt. The politically correct term for them, “Roma,” is what they call themselves, and comes from the name of their language, though many no longer speak Romany. ...
     Fine article. Sad that Gypsies would not do well on their own, but that problem is one that ethnically cohesive Europeans will need to peacefully shed themselves of when they become mature enough to stop their addiction to endlessly agonizing over the countless flattering responsibilities of White Man's Burden.  
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