On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:58 PM, Annastacia Mueni <[email protected]> wrote:

These Roma groups as well have common occupations, their traditions of nomadic and migrant economics that make use of niche markets, which include trading several livestock such as dogs, horse and small birds as well as peddling. Roma craftsmen have also made their upkeep from repairing items considered noneconomic to med such as tea-pots, pocket watches and porcelain dishes. They are the starters of what is now called circular economy. Many Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are involved in recycling have done this for many years, long before major environmental interests. They are also herbalist and healers for the people in the country.

The ability to move of Romans has been an essential part of identity. They have not only been engaged in wagons and horses but also Romans have been dealing in agriculture, craft skills, automobiles trading, roofing as well as road repair. Their economy also consisted of metal work of all kinds. It also consisted of craft production which included making basket and bamboo furniture, carving and decorating wagons, making knives’ handles and fair ground signs. Many names given to groups arise from accusations, basket-makers are referred to as Spetciler which is Turkish word for woven basket and it depicts commercial skills that was used as a cornerstone for establishing taxable communities in the past. Divergence, in and amongst Roma groups originated in occupational identity as much as other cultural differences.

The Roma and Open Society

What makes the communities in this rich diversity bonded or united? The perception of common heritage exclusion exactly leads to the feeling of shared pasts, the idea of always being the outsider or the other. They also have other links in languages, the relevant words such as luck, greetings, blessings, road, water and farewell may be common in the Rromanes accent. Terms for horses, tools numbers and more others are sometimes more similar in many cases that a Roman cad “exchange “ them with another a fair game in several communities, as language is very important to our past in its center and “loan terms” collected overtime and migration ways. Language experts have recognized these commonalty and drawn from this heritage to brighten this common past and culture.

The idea of the historical journey, the story of “the long road of the Roma” more than 1000 years after leaving the land of India, is also very powerful in several Roma groups as an element of identity with good testimonial to aback this. Just as not all Italians are originated from Romans and Etruscans, the same way all Roman groups are not direct descendants of Hindus from Punjab or Ganges basin. Nevertheless, the issue of the “imagined community” is not that it is actually made up story, instead it is symbolically meaningful and has a reason in connecting individuals around similar ideas of origin and belonging to what can broadly be subscribed. The Roma people, in this aspect are people like any other, scattered across several lands and domain over a certain period and circumstance.

The notable idea is that, unlike other groups of people in this article, we have one priesthood, there is no single holy book, there is no promised land to back to and thus, we only under go and survive, and survive, we really reside in the world. The urge is to go far from this and to embellish to acquire the kind of capability that the creative genius of our existence until now clearly proposes that we can attain.