Kate -> RE: Duende - a journey into Flamenco (Oct. 27 2008 12:08:46)
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ORIGINAL: cathulu Do Gypsy have passports and own property? Just wondering... Why shouldn't they ? Gypsies, wherever they live, Europe, America etc have the same rights, to vote, have passports, buy property as anyone else. I wouldn't assume that Jason Webster knows anything about Gypsy culture judging from his book. Poverty is pretty much the same the world over, overcrowded housing, high crime rate, bad diets, drug abuse and violence whatever your ethnicity. A family I know was so poor the children were all sent to work as young as 5 but now these children are adults and despite their poor upbringing have businesses, careers, professions, travel and speak foreign languages, live in lovely houses. Nobody writes about the middle class Gypsies though. Gypsy life in Spain is changing as they become more integrated and educated, although there are still what they call closed communities where old traditions are kept and the elders rule.
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