How did Romani people get from India to Europe? | Romani history by a Romani person pt. 2

Hello y’all! As promised, here is the second installment of my Romani history by a Romani person series. Thank you all for all the love and support on part 1, I am so excited for y’all to see what I have in store for the next parts. Love you all and hope you enjoy :)

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:39 Iran/Persia
2:23 Armenia
4:23 Byzantines
5:55 Conclusion

[nardspirit]

I am an Indian living in France, I always receive quite some attention from the Roma community here and as I work in the market I feel good to work around them. Two years before when I visited Andalusia I immediately felt a strong connection to the flamenco music and dance. It all makes sense now 😊 Thank you for your amazing content.

[samarthd]

Lots of love to my Romani brothers and sisters, from an Indian. I have a lot of respect to your community for holding on to your culture and language despite all the discrimination and persecutions😢🙏🏽🙏🏽

[vedicwarriorOriginal]

Heartbreaking what the Romani people had to go through. On the brighter side, it is astounding how resilient the Romani people are: centuries of oppression and attempts to stamp the Romanis out has not worked. Pretty soon, all Romani people will start to thrive, not just a few. Looking forward to it. Stay safe out there. 👍🙏🕉☸

[coolman]

Blessing to all the romanis from india

[ReligioCritic]

Love from India brother ❤
The amount of similarities in the language, clothes, music, dances and overall culture between the Hindus of western India (Gujaratis, Sindhis and Marwaris) and Romanis is mind blowing.

[FORGOTTENMINDFREAK]

As a Croat-Australian, I'm not fluent in Croatian.
But I have heard the words, "cigane", "cigan" used in reference to my mum's father (when describing in a historical aspect how his family used to refer to him) who had darker features and was often infuriated by being called it (he was denouncing that he had Romani heritage however, adamant that he was 100% Croatian).
Thank you for providing insight on the word for me. I've never used it, and never will, because I refuse to perpetuate that further. The bigotry ended with him.

[sunfroggy]

as a romani person, i never really see/hear too much about this time in our history which has left me a bit less informed than i'd like to be 😅 thank you so much for this video series! very excited to see the next installments :-))

[Solangette-gwir]

I stumbled upon your channel by accident and it has really made me rethink my prejudices.

I grew up hearing that racism was never okay exept against the romani people.
We have a lot of words for them "manouche", "gitan", "tsiganes", many are seen as synonymous with dirty, poor, thief.

I grew up hearing about the romani people as dirty culturless and dangerous. It is just normal to think this where I am from and in my family.
My father (who would never say anyhthing discriminatory usually) just months ago told me of the supposed innate deceiving and evil nature of "gypsies" and I just saw it as normal to hear such things.

This is a very long comment but I just wanted to say that you really opened my eyes to the accepted racism and discrimition against romani people.

I live somewhere with a very large romani population, most of my neighbours are in fact part of the community and I often find myself seeing them as "other" like its natural.

I realise there is a status quo that must be broken. Even tolerant people are profoundly racist against romani people like its a natural thing.
This is ugly and I do not want to have this ugliness in my heart anymore.
There is an awful lack of empathy and education.

Thank you for opening my eyes and heart and sorry for the long comment❤

[dasorganisiertechaos]

In Germany, we spent several semesters in school studying Hitler's rise to power, the war, and genocide. We also visited Auschwitz and a concentration camp nearby. People say they want to commemorate, to sensitize, and again and again they say they want to prevent "the repetition of history." But in reality one is very much concerned with numbers, what happened on the ground and what brutal actions went along with it. The focus is very much on the extermination of the Jews, the Sinthi and Romani people are often only mentioned in passing. One does not deal with the culture, but talks a lot about what sterotypes there were/are. I asked my teacher who Romani people are. Normands in colorful clothes, a minority was the answer. I'm glad I was able to learn more about it on your channel and get an answer after the fact as to who Romani People are: Several ethnic groups that have been able to preserve a rich culture despite repugnant circumstances. I hope that very soon people will appreciate more the great influences of this culture. I am a bit unsure with my English, I hope I have hit the right words. All I wanted to say was: thank you for helping to preserve your culture.

[noelly]

This channel is such a blessing. I look forward to learning more.

[jx]

Hi! I'm from Malaysia and I've never heard of these issues before! Just wanted to thank you for opening my eyes to a whole culture that have so long been misrepresented by media (cough, Disney, cough)

Always looking forward to seeing your next content!

[shayanraj]

History is beautiful and terrifying at the same time. Btw some of your next topic can be Cultural influence of Romani in Europe ( I have heard Flaming Flamenco dance of Spain were introduced by Romanis. And Holocaust of Gypsies ( Romani and Sinti ) during world war 2.

[kichumon]

As an Indian, I wish all my Romani cousins good fortune and health and long life.

May Goddess Kali Maa protect you all 🙏🏻😇

Hoping to see many more interesting educational videos from you about Romani history and culture. 🤗😊

[rkmath]

Living in the southern US, I know almost nothing about Romani people, thank you for helping educate about them! I always love learning about different cultures, but Romani is one of those groups that it feels like no one has any information on. Thank you so much!

[crazychill]

I´m from the Balkans and I´ve never understood the dislike of Romani people and during high school did a presentation of the persecution people were forced to face during the past centruies.
I´d really glad there´s you and other creators popping up and educating people.
With globalization and migration comes diversity and people are getting a lot more accepting but we need to be aware of our history and how to be better.

[eloisagarcia]

I'm so glad I found your channel. Your knowledge in history is just amazing. Honestly, it's hard for me to stop watching your content, so I'm really looking forward to watch the next part of this story. Thank you so much for sharing with all of us

[rezalavasani]

Finally someone pronounced Iran the correct way, Thank you brother. Everyone else pronounce it like it's an Apple product.

[Donnie-Lee-Gringo]

Thank you You seem to be a good historian and story teller. Your comments about Romani immigration into Persia/Iran brought to mind the Zorasterians in India who originally were Persians. In college at BYU in Utah during the 1980s my favorite college roommate Ratan was from Bombai India and was a Zorasterian priest at the Mormon majority BYU campus. I learned so much from him about other cultures. So one religious cultural group fled Persia to India in the 7th or 8th century, then another minority entered Persia from India in the 10th or 11th century interesting

[cheeragdwarkanath]

Amazed by the volume of information in your content. Pleasantly shocked by the Romani connection with Hindu/Indian past. Great going! Love from India ❤🎉

[rid]

I’m ashamed to admit that I had assumed the Roma were from…. Romania.😅 Thanks for all the enlightening content!!