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“I hate the word integration”
“I hate the word integration” These words were spoken by Michal, a thirty something Roma man from Prague. Brought up in a city where acting like a Gadjo, or an ethnic white Czech, was the way to get on yet later being subject to an attack by an (obviously) violent neo-Nazi skinhead group Michal’s …
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The sadness of being alone when the lover has gone is finally knowing that the lover is there.
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An idea, a system, an organisation or person has some sort of consistency. Either it experiences itself as consistent to some extent or it is experienced as discussed as if it were consistent. Within that very consistency is the truth, that it is always made up of an argument, some sort of struggle, emotional or ideological, …
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When the one thing breaks away from another it is the first that experiences itself as finally alone.
“I hate the word integration”
“I hate the word integration” These words were spoken by Michal, a thirty something Roma man from Prague. Brought up in a city where acting like a Gadjo, or an ethnic white Czech, was the way to get on and later being subject to an attack by an (obviously) violent neo-Nazi skinhead group Michal’s …
Noitaly
Sitting in a rather fag end listed churchyard with a busy road going by and lots of people walking past reminds me how much time I spent when I was young precisely in places like this in Italy looking through railings
Cambridge Chavs
Cambridge. It is 35 years ago plus some six months since I first came here. My memories of the town are multiple. But I noticed one or two of them today as I rode through back to the village of Histon. Past a shop in a new shopping precinct that had a clothes shop on …
Obligation
Me involving myself in debt relations with them is in fact knowledge this is the process of getting to know them without obligation there is no relation
jatka
The sign at the local abattoir favoured by my Roma friends: