Monday, March 23, 2009

gypsies

soooooooooo i was watching the movie snatch which is a Guy Ritchie film and in short is awesome. While iw as watching this movie a community popped up that i had no clue still existed. That community was gypsies and right off the bat i was really intrigued. I remember hearing about gypsies in history class as one of the groups the nazi's targeted and aimed to destroy but i never really thought to much about the types of people they were. In the movie snatch brad pitt plays a gypsy bare knuckle boxer and maybe its just bradd pitt being the awesome actor he is or something else but i got really drawn in by the gypsy characters that were in this film. They talked really weird and no one could really understand them and they also did a lot of trading and always threw in dogs in with the deal. Another cool thing was they moved around all the time and lived in caravans of trailers. It seemed really cool that a group of people could live outside of normal society like that and just do their own thing. So I think this would be a really cool group to investigate and really find out more about how they live and their lifestyles.

1 comment:

  1. I like the whole gypsie ncommunity idea. I always was interested in gypsies and after watching Borat, they interested me even more. I would like to learn more about the true perspective of a Gypsie. Im not sure if a gypsie is also considered to be an ethnic group or just a form of lifestyle. The whole idea is interesting though.

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