"The easiest way to dehumanize people is to strip them of any context, any history."

June 12, 2014

Notes to Self are longer journal entries from Seven Yrs Ago. I was 21 mid-2014.

SYSK: Gypsies

• Gypsies “The Great Devouring"

  • Romani segment of WWII Holocaust. 1/2 million Romanis died

• Originated from N. India, driven out (then continuously) for religions and more purposes

• Called “Romani” bc Romania was the country least cruel to them in EEU (though they did enslave the nomads for 400 years)

• “The easiest way to dehumanize people is to strip them of any context, any history.” —Dr. Fonesca

• “The Roma have no heroes, no myths of origin, of a great liberation, of the founding of a nation, of a promise land.”

For commentary seven years later, go here.