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Just my 2 cents.
Since the white Roma girl found in Greece I have been reading a lot about the Roma people (which I did not even know they existed in Europe before that). It appear to me that the Roma people relate to the Chicano in the US. They are a group that due to the circumstances were separated from their original ethnic and trapped into a foreign culture. The result is a new ethnic group that it is not accepted by the old and new land.
In the Chicano case, these were people from Mexico that were absorbed by the US when the states were transferred. States such as California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas have Chicano communities that still claim to be Mexican, however, they are not seen as Mexican by true Mexicans. Since they never assimilated to the American culture, they are seen as different by the rest of America.
In the Roma case, they left India a long time ago, now there are trapped and unwelcome in Europe. Indian does not see them as Indians anymore.
In a sense Roma and Chicano share a similar situation, except that Chicanos in the US are considered a protected minority and they receive more benefits than the average Joe.
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