首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Hostility to Gypsies has existed almost from the time they first appeared in Europe in the 14th century. The origins of the Gyps
Hostility to Gypsies has existed almost from the time they first appeared in Europe in the 14th century. The origins of the Gyps
admin
2011-02-11
67
问题
Hostility to Gypsies has existed almost from the time they first appeared in Europe in the 14th century. The origins of the Gypsies, with little written history, were shrouded in mystery. What is known now from clues in the various dialects of their language, Romany, is that they came from northern India to the Middle East a thousand years ago, working as minstrels and mercenaries, metal-smiths and servants. Europeans misnamed them Egyptians, soon shortened to Gypsies. A clan system, based mostly on their traditional crafts and geography, has made them a deeply fragmented and fractious people, only really unifying in the face of enmity from non-Gypsies, whom they call gadje. Today many Gypsy activists prefer to be called Roma, which comes from the Romany word for "man". But on my travels among them most still referred to themselves as Gypsies.
In Europe their persecution by the gadje began quickly, with the church seeing heresy in their fortune-telling and the state seeing anti-social behaviour in their nomadism. At various times they have been forbidden to wear their distinctive bright clothes, to speak their own language, to travel, to marry One another, or to ply their traditional crafts. In some countries they were reduced to slavery. It wasn’t until the mid-1800s that Gypsy slaves were freed in Romania. In more recent times the Gypsies were caught up in Nazi ethnic hysteria, and perhaps half a million perished in the Holocaust. Their horses have been shot and the wheels removed from their wagons, their names have been changed, their women have been sterilized, and their children have been forcibly given for adoption to non-Gypsy families.
But the Gypsies have confounded predictions of their disappearance as a distinct ethnic group and their numbers have burgeoned. Today there are an estimated 8 to 12 million Gypsies scattered across Europe, making them the continent’s largest minority. The exact number is hard to pin down. Gypsies have regularly been undercounted, both by regimes anxious to downplay their profile and by Gypsies themselves, seeking to avoid bureaucracies. Attempting to remedy past inequities, activist groups may overcount. Hundreds of thousands more have emigrated to the Americas and elsewhere. With very few exceptions Gypsies have expressed no great desire for a country to call their own-unlike the Jews, to whom the Gypsy experience is often compared. "Romanestan" said Ronald Lee, the Canadian Gypsy writer, "is where my two feet stand. "
Gypsies are united only when they______.
选项
A、are engaged in traditional crafts
B、call themselves Roma
C、live under a clan system
D、face external threats
答案
D
解析
本题为细节理解题。短文第一段中有这么一句话:only really unifying in the face of enmity from non-Gypsies,即“只有面对非吉卜赛人的威胁时才联合起来”,由此可知选项D为正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/gFYO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
WhatisthemostimportantreligiousdenominationinBritain?
______isthestudyofhowsentencesarestructured
HumanitiesDisciplinesInmanypeople’seyes,thehumanitiesdisciplinesseemtobedyingout.However,actually,students
HumanitiesDisciplinesInmanypeople’seyes,thehumanitiesdisciplinesseemtobedyingout.However,actually,students
ModernExaminationsIntheschoolsofancienttimes,themostimportantexaminationswerespoken.Usuallythestudentswere
Weallknowthatprogramminglanguageisthesystemofsyntax,grammar,andsymbolsorwordsusedtogiveinstructionstoacomp
TheuniquenessoftheJapanesecharacteristheresultoftwo,seeminglycontradictoryforces:thestrengthoftraditionsandse
Man,sothetruismgoes,livesincreasinglyinaman-madeenvironment.Thisplacesaspecialburdenonhumanimmaturity,forit
"Thelandscapeseenfromourwindowsiscertainlycharming,"saidAnnabel;"thosecherryorchardsandgreenmeadows,andtheriv
TheCalloftheWildisoneofthemasterpiecesof
随机试题
A、15%inEurope.B、20%inEurope.C、25%inEurope.D、75%inEurope.C
重症肝炎患者的饮食指导不包括
某企业2006年度利润总额为116000元,资产总额期初为1017450元,期末数为1208650元;该年度企业实收资本为750000元;年度销售收入为396000元,年度销售成本为250000元,销售费用65000元,销售税金及附加6600元,管理费用8
空调按空气处理设备的设置情况分为( )。
(2016年)某汽车销售公司甲公司因业务发展需要向开户银行P银行申请加入银行卡特约商户,P银行在对其提交的申请资料审查后,双方于2014年6月9日签订银行卡受理协议,约定P银行按照交易金额的1.25%、单笔80元封顶的标准收取结算手续费。2015年6月12
材料:下面是某思想政治课教师关于“事物是变化发展的”的优秀课堂教学设计(教学时间为45分钟)。问题:请运用思想政治课程教学理论,简要评价该课堂教学中存在的优点。
材料一:1687年,牛顿出版了《自然哲学的数学原理》,1765年一种全新的蒸汽机在瓦特的手中诞生了,1776年,亚当斯密的《国富论》出版。如果说,牛顿为工业革命创造了一把科学的钥匙,瓦特拿着这把钥匙开启了工业革命的大门,那么,亚当斯密则是挥动一只看不见的手
近期,()海域海盗活动猖獗,给世界各国远洋运输安全带来严峻挑战。2008年11月14日,中国天津远洋渔业公司的渔船“()”号在该海域被劫持,包括17名中国船员在内的25人被扣为人质。86天后,该渔船安全获救。
Intheauthor’seyes,parentspushingtheirkidstoanelitedegreeare______.Wecaninferfromthesecondparagraphthat___
Whatdoyouguessthey’lldo?
最新回复
(
0
)