Gypsies In France

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Gypsies in France Policy Analysis Romani people or gypsies as they are more popular, are large minority group living mostly within Europe. They mainly inhabit Central and Eastern Europe. The entire gypsy population is believed to be around 5 million people around the world. Where they come from? Some believe that they have Indian ancestors others believe that they are old Romanian tribe.( Fraser, Angus The Gypsies : Blackwell Publishers, Oxford UK). They began migrating to Europe and North Africa via the Iranian plateau about 1,000 years ago. The reason for their Diaspora remains unknown to the world. People today do not seem to care much about gypsies as a minority group. They do not know anything about their language or culture. The truth is that they are a group difficult to compare to any other existing one. Their language is very different from any ancient language when you compare it. Their physical appearance on the other hand, is very similar to people of the Indian subcontinent. A gypsy woman An Indian woman Gypsies are all over Europe. I will take a close look at gypsies in France. “ France is a unitary semi-presidential republic with its main ideals expressed in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. The French Republic is defined as indivisible, secular, democratic and social by its constitution. France is one of the world's most developed countries and possesses the fifth largest economy by nominal GDP] and Europe's second largest economy. “( Wikipedia) France has always been a tourist attraction for people from all over the. For It’s Eiffel Tower, or the Louvre Museum or simply of the atmosphere in Paris millions of people are visiting the country, and leaving a piece of themselves. But what happens when people do not only like to visit the country for a
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