Tatcho Drom

Journeying Journals of a Jolly Journeyman

The academic world has been attempting to rationalise the origins of Roma for many decades. There is a general consensus, that is based on both linguistic and DNA sciences, that Roma originated from northern India. This, supposed, Indian origins for Romany people was seen as a breakthrough for anthropologists. Why? Because for hundreds of years the Roma people have been an extremely reclusive people, so much so that they have been considered as a group “that don’t want in… as far as traditional anthropological categories are concerned” (Macmillan Library Reference, 1999, s.v. “Peripatetics”).

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It often goes without say that we all think differently and process information in our own unique way. As do scientists – the people who bring us the information that influence, and may even define, many of our realities.

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Have you ever heard Jewish people being accused for the death of Jesus Christ? Sadly, the annals of history reveal how the Roman Catholic leadership branded Jewish people with the ethnoreligious slur of “Christ killers”. The stigma of “Christ killer” has had disastrous affects upon innocents. A myriad of Jewish people who had no relation with Jesus Christ have been massacred by the direct authority of the Roman Catholic church. The fact that the massacred were Jewish innocents is not as relevant as the fact that these innocents were indeed human beings. But the public often readily forgets the humanity of a targeted group when they are demonised by the supposed guardians of Christianity.

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The following story I wrote when I was twenty years of age. It was a bit of a breakthrough for me, since, up to that point, I did not consider myself a writer. Hardly! A little insight: I’m Autistic (Asperger’s Syndrome to be exact) and so schooling wasn’t the ideal setting for education for me. Oh, I love to be educated, but the schooling system is a mental killer for me. Still is. On top of this I’m Dyslexic. I don’t complain about these things, I hardly even share them in real life. It is not the way I was raised – to complain. Instead, I was taught to face life and deal with it. So this story is one of those “dealing with it” experiences. Dealing with writing, something I had not attempted seriously up to this point. The literary quality of the following short story, I’ll leave that for the experts to decide. But I can surely tell you that it’s a heartfelt story, an analogy of my life.
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The internet is expanding at incredible rates. With the onset of globalisation we have the world uniting in ways that are both beneficial in numerous ways, but also deceitful in subtle ways. The benefits of the internet are apparent to all:

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What is a prearranged marriage (or arranged marriage) in my culture? It’s when either family, clan leaders, matchmaker, parents or other clan members with authority arrange an endogamous marriage between a man and woman. In this marriage arrangement, the spouses do not make the choice of who they would marry, but due to its endogamous nature, it is most likely someone from the same clan. If not the same clan, the same culture.

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