Gypsies, Roma, Travellers: An Animated History 

I am a (Gypsy) Roma, and I can say this... not much has changed in regards to our customs and traditions. I know most people hate us, but I can honestly say that I would have it no other way.

love how the video quickly dismisses the only political structure that ever aknowledged the roma as equal citizens and not as an inferior race.. which is both scientifically and historically rather unethical, dear Open Society Foundation....

I recently found out that my family may well be descedents of the Roma. Reports say that my great grandmother was dropped off at an orphanage by 'gypsys' where her culture and language were beaten out of her by nuns. I only found this out after she died, and after several ancestry dna tests we were able to trace my ancestors travels from India throughout Asia and into Europe where they eventually wound up in England.

Really wish they used the word "Romanies" instead of Roma because it would include all Gypsies like Sinti, Romanichal, Gitanos, etc, not just just Roma.

Im a roma gypsy born in hungary but grown up in canada .. our ppl are true survivors .. we survived agaisnt all ods for centuries some even tried to earse us .. but we are still here every where .. godbless our race and others as well 🙏 .. and to our haters godbless you to i know there are manny of you lol .. but its ok 👍 bcuz we are joyful and happy ppl most of the time and we only care about our family friends each other so ye ..

This was interesting my dads side are roma from Romania and Turkey but i am not close with their side of the family so i learned something about their family history today.

Romanies were never traditionally Christian. They came much later. I know both Jewish and Hindu people and though we do have a few similarities with Jewish customs, there are many, many more similarities with Hindu. So many words are almost the same in Hindi too.

Thanks for this, love learning about different peoples and the Roma don't get enough positive coverage

Thank you for legitimization my people through this video. This helps further validate us as an ethnic group and culture in the eyes and minds of ignorant Americans and racists alike. Our history and culture must be shared. I'm sick of how essentializing portrayal of my people can be. (Also, I'm an actual Rom, not a Traveller. I was born in Hungary, but I was adopted by White Americans, hence the Irish last name.)

Return your oldest home apply to Indian citizenship .

Rom, Roma, Romani, Dom, Doma, And Domari are all names and nicknames for Ethnic Gypsies while Travellers are there own seperate thing

Indian artisan class rarely travelled outside. When they did they often did with patrons. Traders, Religious leader etc. So those communities are very successful. But what you call Romani are different ones. They were enslaved and taken to Turkic empires from India. Many of them died traversing the extreme rough weather of the mountain ranges, which was named after their death (Hindu Kush = Death of Hindus).

Well, Stalin created a country for the gypsies. It was called something like: The Republic of Gypsy or something like that. The country was near Urals Mountains and Siberia. After Stalin died, they shut down the project.

Thanks for this quickshot education. Cool video!! I already knew it as I've read about Roma for awhile but I'm grateful as an Armenian that it mentioned where the Roma first went. It's rare that we are mentioned in history. I wonder how many Roma stayed in Armenia and Iran/Persia? I know there are some Armenian & Persian words in the Roma language so it must have been awhile they stayed...but I wonder who didn't get run out by the Ottomans/Seljuk Turks?

thank you so much for posting this I have a project about the aroma people, very helpful!

Beautifull work !

Opre Roma!! Long live to Roma and their traditions!

I belong to the Scandinavian Gypsy/Romani people. They are named Tater. The word Tater comes from Tartaros, which is Greek for hell, so here they where known as "the children from hell" according to extreme right-winged people. We dont have any form of religion, as the church and governments forced the children of the Tater people and put them in christian homes. Tho today we do not hate on any form of religion, we still keep a fair distance to it (at least my whole family line did).

That “muchos gracias” was very well done 😂

This clip is so cool