![]() ![]() It is a story about the sources of cultural diversity in modern industrial society and about the fear and hatred that such social and cultural difference may give rise to. The Time of the Gypsies is about the refusal of one group of Gypsies-the Rom-to abandon their way of life and accept assimilation into the majority population. Today the Gypsies have taken the place of the Jews, feared when poor and isolated in ghettos and hated even more than their skill as traders has brought them unaccustomed wealth and entry to walks of life previously forbidden to them. ![]() More Gypsies have had their houses burned and have been killed in racist attacks in the first six postcommunist years than in all the time since World War II. Since 1989, the Gypsies have become the scapegoat of postcommunism. Until 1989 it was official Communist policy in eastern Europe to absorb Gypsies into the “ruling” working class.
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