Why Have the Romani Been Scapegoated for a Thousand Years?
The “Gypsies” versus “civilized society”
7 min readFeb 28, 2021
Over a thousand years ago, scores of people left Ancient India and haven’t felt at home since.
They traveled through Asia, the Middle East, Byzantium, the Balkans, and Europe. As George Borrow wrote in his 1841 book The Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of Spain,
