Europes Largest Minority Essay

In the mist of the countries involvement in one of the most grueling wars in history new barriers were broken to make room for an equal America. Although true equality was not reached, these short four years would lead to the turning point in American acceptance toward diversity, both in and out of the work place. The movement of thousands of men overseas create a substantial gap in the work place, creating a never before seen chance for women, Blacks, and immigrants to flood the many war based jobs. At the same time, the Japanese faced radical discrimination for the events in which provoked the United States entry in to the War. In the years incasing WWII opportunity opened to those who had been affected hardest but

By 1940, Roma gypsies were rounded up and made to live in encampments. These in time became fenced in ghettos. From these ghettos, many were transported by train to detention camps to await deportation. They were forced to wear black triangle markings for being asocial or a green triangle for being professional criminals. Besides being treated as in the camps, they were also subjected to multiple medical experiments, including “special experiments that were supposed to prove scientifically that their blood was different from German blood.” Many of the gypsy women were sterilized against their will, which included any female child over the age of twelve. This was done so they would not be able to continue their ancestral line, thought to be impure inferior and worthless. Most Roma gypsies were exterminated in the camps.

Like the Holocaust in the 1930s-1940s, Jews during this time were treated with brutality. Manchester describes it as, “Jewry was luckier - slightly luckier - than blacks. If the pogroms of the time are less infamous than the Holocaust, it is only because anti-Semites then lacked twentieth-century technology” (35). In the year 1492, the Spanish had regained control of Spain. The rule of Spain was now under King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. They were not fond of Jews in their nation. The Jews in Spain were given three months to convert to christianity or to leave. After seeing what the Spanish were doing in Spain, the king of Portugal ordered the expulsion of all Portuguese Jews. Any Jews who wouldn’t leave or were slow to leave were massacred. Around four thousand Lisbon Jews were killed during a single night in 1506. Only three years later persecution of Jews in Germany began. Jews throughout history have been treated badly but during the medieval period it was especially hard if you were a Jew.

In Europe, crusaders sometimes turned their fury against Jews, massacring entire communities.” This is interesting

Throughout the course of history many people have been discriminated against because of one thing or another. During the Egyptian empire, Egyptian kings would enslave Jewish people because of their race and beliefs. During the inquisition, the Roman Catholic Church began to purge those who did not follow the Catholic Church. Interestingly, many cultures would enslave their rivals when they would conquer them, for example the Aztec and Mayan empires of Latin America had a practice of enslaving their captives.

During both the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust, harsh persecutors punished others for their religious beliefs.

Many are unaware that the Gypsies have been in the Americas ever since Columbus came in 1498, he brought them over when he came on his third voyage to the West Indies. These mysterious group of people are descendants from the nomadic tribal groups that journeyed away from Northern India about 1,000 years ago and then made the voyage westwards all the way to Europe (Hancock, 2012). Research shows that the Romany language that is spoken by a lot of Gypsies has its roots in Sanskrit. During the course of their history Gypsies have been able to go along with unique way of life as people that are considered to be nomadic. Gypsies have remained

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In the beginning, one of the earlier rungs of the ladder of prejudice is discrimination. First, Jews from Reich, Germany were first blamed and criticized for the things they did. Then the Jewish became second class citizens, but they were still a loud in Germany. After that they were forced to leave Germany. Finally it was decided that the jews were to be exterminated entirely from europe. (Lace 13) First they were sent to ghettos but that was just until they got the death camps set up but even Jewish men and women worked at setting up the places that would soon become their death place.

Eventually Jews and other ‘undesirables’ were sent to death camps, while others went to forced labour camps and used as slaves to produce materials for weapons in war, and a range of goods, such as shoes, clothes and good. These death camps

“..On May 25th, 1943, Mengele sent 1035 gypsies suspected of typhus to the gas chamber, and on May 25th and 26th he spared those Gypsies who were German while he sent approximately 600 others to be gassed.';(p. 25 par.1)

Today a lot of society feels that there is a set example of what is socially acceptable. Recently many people have started embracing others and themselves for their individuality. However only a short time ago, people were treated much more harshly for who they were. Throughout history, society has gone through several significant instances of discrimination. Anyone who was flawed and did not fit into the ideal categories set up by the world were considered inferior. Anne Frank was personally affected by a large amount of discrimination and exile, which brought her and the ones she loved a lot of anguish.

This same year would also see the publication of Karl Binding (a jurist) and Alfred Hoche’s (a psychiatrist) Die Freigabe der Vernichtung Lebensunwerten Lebens, themed around the reasoning for killing mentally ill patients. In 1922, Professor Hans Gunther wrote Rassenkunde des Deutschen Volkes, which appealed to this racial superiority of the German blood and would go on to give Hitler a doctrine in which to adhere to for his eugenics plan. A conference held in Bavaria during 1925 discussed the “Gypsy Question” which elevated the Gypsy nuisance to a Gypsy problem and this same rhetoric would be used over the course of the Nazi regime with the aim of splintering and destroying the Roma. On July 16th, 1926, a Bavarian law decreed for Combatting Gypsies, Vagabonds, and Work Shy, which required all Gypsies to officially register themselves to the government. Those unable to work were forced into penal labor for up to two years. The following year in Bavaria they would increase infractions by a permanent police surveillance of all Roma. In 1929 in Munich, a police organization was renamed “The Central Office for the Fight Against the Gypsies in Germany”, in which the Bavarian law would

The word Gypsy is used to describe a particular nomadic group of people who originated in Northern India. It was when they began their nomadic ways, for reasons unknown, and traveled to Europe that the term Gypsy was born because

Even though the mandatory killings and public burnings have stopped, there is still rampant discrimination caused by the remnants of this mentality. The stigma caused by organized religion, even though our world slowly regains its idea of equality,