The black tea I was drinking in the cafe looked like he was processing words. The interview with an academic colleague is just outraged as I heard him repeating a small and biased narrative that I experienced too often.
I expressed an argument on the lack of recognition of the Roman victims of the Holocaust when he tortured him. He said that “G ******”, a repellent term for Roma people in my and his part of the world, were the Nazis target for “crime”. This poorly informed statement has long been used in certain academic works that portray the romens as the inferior victims of the Holocaust.
While some official statements and ceremonies commemorate Holocaust admit their victims of Roma and Sinta – like a recent 80th anniversary Auschwitz release – many institutions still portray and distance them as part of a separate genocide or as “other victims” of Nazi regimes. Partly, this stems from a racist myth of a crime that accompanied the campaign of mass exterminating novels and storytelling of history afterwards.
However, this myth, strongly attached to biological racism, is still alive and healthy today, and affects politics, behavior and attitudes towards people of Roma even in supposedly progressive places like Canada.
In my research, I have seen that in the daily life of Canadian Anti-Roma, racism is rarely revealed by explicit violence, unlike the incidents I have experienced or witnessed in Europe. Instead, it often has the form of everyday racism-which implies and perpetuates in words, insults, jokes, testing on the basis of stereotypes, passive or active distance and incidents in which novels are misunderstood, underestimated, overwhelmed or neglected and neglected and day -an. who not only irritate and hurt, but also wound to one’s value and well -being.
In the last few years, I have worked with a research team from the Harvard FXB Center and Canadian novels Alliance to identify and examine such insults, which Sociologist Michele Lamont labeled “attack on value”. We interviewed novels and non-Romanesque individuals in the area of the Great Toronto-Hamilton (GTHA), the home of the largest Canadian community of Romani, and compiled our discoveries in study CHARGE CONCEPTION with great and daily discrimination: novels of experience in the Canadian area of the great Toronto-Hamilton.
One of the most common experiences of everyday racism reported by the Romans of Canadians with whom we spoke included doubt the crime that arises from the pervasive globally widespread tropus, connecting the thievery and deception with the novel identity and culture.
The typical experience of a Roma individual is casually said, “Oh, if you’re G ****, you have to steal or move a lot and things.” These narratives can encourage harmful procedures. As the 76-year-old Romana Canadian told us, she is an episodic suspect for theft after discovering her novel identity with various associates. Feeling humiliated and wrong, she felt forcibly “open my backpack several times and say,” Here, look at my things. “
The old trop of crime, along with others, is reinforced again and again in pop culture, movies, television shows, and even the Academy. In the context of a larger area of Toronto-Hamilton, such a daily and repetitive use of tropics associated with crime in social interactions leaves novels that feel wrong and discriminated against.
The 25-year-old novels of the woman we spoke to felt that the Canadians perceived her as “just another G ****, another thief g ****”. Other novels Canadians are cautious in their interaction with colleagues of Canadians, especially those of European origin, and especially in sharing information about their ethnic origin.
The concealment or suppression of identity novels extends beyond personal interactions, which affects official demographic data and, therefore, politics. While the Canadian list of 2021 reported on 6,545 Canadian Roma, unofficial estimates, including the UN report for 2016, suggest that the figure could be closer to 110,000.
Ethno-Rasni insults are also a prominent expression of everyday racism in the larger area of Toronto-Hamilton. In fact, the global, ethno-war insults stand out as a prevailing expression of an attack on value, documents on all continents in countries such as Brazil, Israel and the US.
Some are surprising, such incidents also happened in family circles. Several novels have divided the experience of ethno racial insults or jokes related to G **** crime that comes from their non-Roma partners or partner families. The novel The respondent shared that his unraveling wife had told him that people were from Roma or “stupid or dirty.”
The term “dirty g ****”, rooted in racist ideas related or with physical and social attributes or innate biological and cultural impurity, are often mentioned as an insult in our interviews. Intrigated, many perpetrators of these ethno-landscape insults were individuals of European or transcontinental origin of the first generation. “Look at them. Look at how dirty they are. Look how funny they are. Look at how rude they are,” a taxi driver abroad for Romani.
Our research has also discovered the persistent use of racial pus for the injury, insult, humiliation and discrimination of Romani or simply resolving Romane’s individuals. Canadians in a larger area of Toronto-Hamilton use the term g **** as an independent insult against Roma people they see on the street or at cultural events. The exonymous G **** is generally considered a racial snack within the novels of circles, although it is accepted by some groups of novels, such as the British Roma people.
Equivalent pus g **** in different languages, especially Canadians of European origin, are also used. Basically, we have noticed a connection between immigration and imports to Canada stereotypes from countries with a significant Roma population, which we also documented In the US in 2020.
The study shows that they face ethno-landscape insults, the Romani Canadians feel sad, shamefully, traumatized, insecure, injured, avoided or overwhelmed; They also share that such experiences cause nausea, anxiety, panic, numbness or feeling endangered. “These experiences … stay with us,” one participant in the Roma Canadian study told us.
While many, suspected crime, expression of g **** and related insults can only be words or automatic thoughts, for the Roma Canadians and the global Roma community, they represent a weapon from rejection, humiliation and discrimination that we have endured me for centuries.
It is crucial that our global community stops the weapons of racist tropics and racial pus and the use of ethno-religious insults or jokes against novels and a racial group. Thus allowing harmful narratives to persevere on real risks for real people.
In Norway, for example, a trop of crime justified recently Creating a Roma registerwhich was not different from the registrations created in numerous European countries before the Holocaust.
In the United States, similar tropics are exploited to support the policies of mass deportations and detention of migrants in detention camps such as Guantanamo Bay, who, as the executive director of the Vince Warren Center for Constitutional Rights noted, remains a global symbol of “Terror, torture and Ruberism”
The persistent use of racist tropics and fertilizes not only contributes to the marginalization of racial communities, but can also lead to a dangerous normalization of state and unrestrained violence against them.
The views expressed in this article are the author’s and do not reflect the editorial position of Al Jazeere.
