They are a relatively big country (40 million people) so the supposed scare of being overrun by Eastern Europeans when a bunch of Eastern European countries joined the EU in 2005 focused in on the Poles. The Germans really don’t like Poles, and among Germany’s 9 neighbors, are disliked ...
It is impossible to talk about Gypsy jazz without discussion ofDjango Reinhardtas he remains by far the most important figure in the genre. Reinhardt was the first major jazz musician to emerge from Europe, and he is still considered one of the greatest andmost influential guitarists of all t...
The Travelers used to be called gypsies, or tinkers, before such nomenclature was branded as rude and racist or something. I have no idea why. To judge from pictures of members of the Traveling community posted in the Daily Mail and others, they don’t look all that much different from ...
and when he had the all black trio Band of Gypsies going on, Amerikkka strictly didn’t like the idea of the all black trio and his manager fought endlessly to break them up cause “everyone wants the Experience to come back”. Also...
(immigrants, gypsies, Muslims) much like how slavery ‘coincidentally’ ended around the same time as the Industrial Revolution. You know, given that the fact that you could now mechanise industries where you previously needed to have slaves to make them profitable had nothing to do with the ...
Over the past few years my life has flowed, more or less, as nature and the Good Lord have always intended. Overall, I’m a lucky man, in that I still have some reason to get out of bed in the morning … other than to take another pee. This motivation centers, almost entirely, ...
The Irish gypsies and the Appalachians seem like similar types of people, although the Irish gypsies are a little more nomadic than the Appalachians. I think I compare the two basically due to the negative stereotypes people have of both of them as well as their styles of music. ...
gibberish (n): “rapid and inarticulate speech; talk in no known language,” 1550s, imitative of the sound of chatter, probably influenced by jabber. Used early 17th C. of the language of rogues and gypsies. US justice department announces investigation into [1921!]Tulsa race massacre The Jo...
formed the first foundations of the modern state. This mixture, increased by later immigration, has produced the present ethnic and national diversity in Britain. Immigrations: Jewish moneylenders, 1330, Dutch and Flemish, helping build the textile trade in England. Others, including gypsies, enslav...
A recent estimate by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), puts the annual global cost of digital crime and intellectual-property theft at $445 billion – a sum roughly equivalent to the GDP of a smallish rich European country such as Austria. (8)To add to the ...