playground dignity or misplaced anger?

[problematika]

On our way home from fieldworking, I took Bubla to one of the local Gadjo playgrounds. He wandered over to within a few meters of one of the benches and I followed at some distance behind him, when I overheard a snippet of the conversation between the two seated women. The narrator, who - I'll admit - isn't exactly young, was saying something about

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[khrysha]

Sometimes just a few, well place, articulated words are enough.

I'm glad you said something. I would have too.

:)

[problematika]

Well, it was enough to make me feel better, anyway :-)

[couri]

and I just wanted to say that I knew a Czech woman once, but you couldn't tell she was Czech because she was intelligent

I got these little tears of joy in my eyes when I read that.

[lienka_cz]

Well... everytime I hear something like that, or something like some czechs like to say with a kind of non-directed latent wish to sting "you know..coz you are russian" it sounds like i have to excuse that i'm. so i'm trying in the most polite and hard manner to explain who is who.

[problematika]

and you're actually Russian, i assume ? or have i misunderstood?

[twostepsfwd]

Hey there - I know you from the adoption community. I'm also an anti-racist, a Jew of Romanian & Russian heritage, and I'm studying (on my own, not in school) about Roma culture and history. I think we have a lot in common, was wondering if you'd like to be LJ friends

[twostepsfwd]

BTW, by "studying" I don't mean trying to be some American colonialist anthropologist... But rather that I'm interested in learning about Roma issues in the context of anti-racism.... and the connections between Jewish and Roma experience. I realized after I wrote this comment that it might sound kind of obnoxious - Sorry.