Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel Fonseca
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Author: Isabel FonsecaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-10-29
ISBN: 067973743X
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Roma past and present - Xenophobia at its worst.
Summary: 3 Stars
The writer gives us a lot of valuable info about the ways of the Roma.Nevertheless I find her trying to apologize for their poor status in society. In my view this is not needed.
As we see so often minorities are usually mistreated or not understood.It is not a problem of the past (during Hitler's regime) but very much of today,though not put in concentration camps, Roma are still seen with the greatest mistrust.I live in a country (Greece) where Roma children are not welcome in schools, though the law says otherwise. So if the new generation ,as well as the old, cannot get an education, how can they "integrate" in society, as one reviewer puts it. I have been teaching Roma kids to read and write, with some other teachers, in private locals for the last 7 years ,but afterwards what.Sure they prefer to stick to their own if everybody else sees them as little less than criminals.
To uphold that Roma steal or cheat is equal to say that all Italians are Mafiosi or all Muslims are terrorists.
Let's face it we never gave these people a chance, they have been blamed since the Middle Ages for all the wrongs ( as well as the Jews until recently). Why there seems to be an unwritten rule that people who are "different" (little people,albinos,autistic) are marginalized without further ado? Is this not a kind of fear of "the others"?
I think our Western Society has been discriminating people (colonies) for so long that everybody has simply gotten used to it, so let's not speak of lack of integration, even if they do, they have to hide their true identity,because of the general mistrust.
In one word the book is good but too apologetic.
Summary of Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
Isabel Fonseca describes the four years she spent with Gypsies from Albania to Poland, listening to their stories, deciphering their taboos, and befriending their matriarchs, activists, and child prostitutes. A masterful work of personal reportage, this volume is also a vibrant portrait of a mysterious people and an essential document of a disappearing culture. 50 photos.They travel endlessly and seem to appear almost everywhere, yet they are the world's most mysterious people: Gypsies. Isabel Fonseca has done the impossible, entering into their world, living and traveling with Gypsies during several long trips to Eastern Europe, and she has brought back an insightful, highly personal, and very readable account of who the Gypsies are and how they live. The Gypsies have a legendary aversion to "gadje," or outsiders, but Fonseca has lifted the curtain and written gracefully about their lives on the edge of society.
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