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a numerous and unknown population
the brazilian government estimates that 800.000 gypsies are already living in the country
against centuries of discrimanation,the weapon of this people has always been the isolation
now slowly,they began to change this strategy
A Gypsy language dictionary is the first action of this community
who decided to show themselves to overcome the prejudice
at the camp full of tents, in Embu in greater São Paulo,
we are greeted by Carlinhos
a young of the nineteen year old who likes to show the golden grin
How many gold fillings have you Carlinhos
I have sixteen gold jackets.
It cost too much?
Almost two thousand reais! Between one hundred and thirty, a hundred and fifty reais each.
And why have those gold teeth?
It's a Calon's tradition,we like.
Carlinho's ancestors wore gold teeth
to carry cash in a safe manner on the body
The custom remained. Like ability to merchant.
The day to day I work as a salesman on the streets.
Sometimes I make a trade involving horses.
the products to ensure the sustenance of the family
are all over the camp,
horse, pig and calf.
But not are only men that win money here.
Today, Adriana is one of the few women who did not were to town.
The little baby does not allow that she go "read fortunes" in the streets.
This is a gift of God to mothers
Inside the tents,stove,refrigerator, microwaves
TV, fans, stereos and shiny pans.
one baggage that accompanies the group in their wanderings.
They are living in this camp three years ago.
And they pay seventy reais in month for each tent.
To can use the water of the person who rented the this area to them. -
But some day can go on the road
We've already walked enough as we walk a lot.
And this makes you tired or fell you good?
It is the tradition of the Calon, is part of our life
Each clan has freedom to choose the religion that want
The Calon, here in Brazil, are devoted to Nossa Senhora Aparecida
But among the traditions of the Calon, a clan of the Gypsies
marriage, for example, is combined
and still in adolescence
And childrens as Ivan six years old, do not go to school.
Change this condition is one of the challenges to remove the Gypsies of marginality.
Therefore, in August, the childrens should begin to be literates.
but the dificulties still be many whern there is not document, still remaining prejudices
The people say that: gypsy is *** that gypsy steals, but we are not this way
We, gypsies, we are the most correct people and decent in the world.
It's hard, rarely do you see gypsy in the chains.
for the brazilian governement the are 800.000
but for our community, the gypsies are more than a milion.
The nomads, who live here, represent only part of the group
The others are considered as sedentary,ie, they fixed residence in large cities.
The gypsy of clan Sinte, profesor of anthropology at the Catholic University, Nicolas Ramanush,
he founded an NGO to dilute the discrimination
that exists even among the gypsies themselves.
There is prejudice between in clans,ie,
in a determinade clan somebody may say: I'm the true gypsy because I got preserving
the language
while others say, no, I'm the most true why I keep free myself
And that creates stereotypes that even the non-gypsy and society in general
accepts these statements as our truth or reality
There are a great diversity among ours clans
they are not saints nor villains, miserable and rich
educated and iliterate,nomadic and sedentary they do not like to expose themselves.
And this is a form of protection but for the same reason the idea now is
just the opposite: break the silence and show some of the culture of this people
So the Ramanush wrote a dictionary of the gypsy language.
I thought in the future, I speak today, tomorrw I wont be here like everyone else.
like everybody I'll die
and if I did not leave a written record, which is case this book.
do not only the gypsies of the my clan
but also people in general, they would not have how to the beauty of a language
with at least two thousand years old.