Oh dear.
It appears that some Romanian with a grudge against the Daily Telegraph, Top Gear and Britain in general successfully hacked into the Daily Telegraph’s website last night, replacing a sub-domain page with his (or her) own rant about how Britain continually misrepresents Romania’s image.
The hacker, or hackers – calling himself RNS: Romanian National Security – was particularly offended at the idea that the words Gypsies and Romanians often get lumped together.
It’s interesting that the hacker chose the Daily Telegraph of course: it could be said that not a few of the readers of that newspaper would no doubt fully agree with the hacker’s views of ethnic minorities…
Or maybe the hacker chose the Daily Telegraph because he was horrified by this glowing review of the Dacia Sandero the newspaper published late last year?
Of Top Gear’s visit to Romania, we said at the time and we say so again: it was a cracking piece of television and a great advert for Romania.
Read our original post about Top Gear’s visit to the Transfagarasan highway here.
A Romanian hacker, pictured yesterday
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The oldest document about Gypsies is found in the Byzantine Empire, inside a text from the year 1088 which tells about the “Adsincans”, who were practicing black magic and bad things. European history of the Gypsies begins in the middle of the 14th century, when they arrived in Asia Minor Turkey. Between 1415-1419 they could be found in all Central Europe from Hungary to Germany. In 1422 many Gypsies arrived in Italy. As we can see, their Italian history is older, before Gypsies arrived from Romania. In the next decade they arrived in France, Spain, England and also Scandinavia. Here they call themselves “Egyptians” and this is how they got their well-known name “Gypsies”.
As we can all see, they came to Europe from India through Asia Minor and they have nothing in common to the Romanian people, nothing in common to Hungarians (they arrived 600 years earlier), to French or Spanish. They were banished from India and they were even payed in gold to leave that country – that is where they have all their big money. And they make gold payments only among themselves – paper money has no real value.
Gypsies have an interesting strategy: when they were forced to leave India, no other country wanted them (everyone received warnings from India about how bad Gypsies are) so they had to hide their origin. The three Romanian countries (which became today’s Romania) decided to allow them to stay. And they took the name “Rom”.
They also arrived to Greece and they took the name “Athinganis” or “Atsinganos” (also the name of a Greek religious group meaning “the untouchables”).
A Gypsie comminity is called “Shatra” and it comes from the indian word “Kshatria” (The warriors clan – a clan they never belonged to).
“Tigan/Zigeneur/Zingaro/Zigeunen” comes from “Athinganos” – the greek religious group.
Gypsy comes from Egyptians and that is how they presented themselves, as Egyptians Christians pilgrimages, to get houses and food for free.
In New York they are called “Yansser”. This word comes from “Yennycher” (Turkis language – Ienicer) and it means “Turkish soldier” (that fights while walking, not the cavalry)
In German language they are called “Zigeuner” and “Sinti”.
In Italian and Spanish they are called Gittano.
In Denmark, Sweden and Finland they are called Tattan (they presented themselves as Tatar nation).
In Romania they took the name “Rom” and later they said that in their language this is written “rrom” (double r).
As we can see, they hide their origin and some times they mask themselves as a different nation or their host nation. That sounds like some horror movie and that is how Hitler was thinking in his madness. After the big war many efforts were made to integrate them into the society. The greatest efforts were made by the Romanian communist government which also accomplished great results. We now have gypsies that can speak many languages/have degree in engineering/teachers/hard workers. But in 1989 everything stopped.
There are two big categories:
1. The traditional gypsies tribes which have strong traditions (one tribe per tradition, as following): music singers, gold jewelery makers, musical instrument builders, cooking pots makers, circus-bear gypsies and a few more which I do not remember right now). These tribes have their honor. You do not see them begging on streets. They are hard workers and have strong traditions. You do not hear about them on TV, except when in rare cases some girl of their kind is somehow raped and she choose to commit suicide in order to protect the honor of her family. Yes, they think like that. As they belonged to a hated people in India, they choosed to hide their origin. And for their honor they deserve to be adopted by the country where they are currently living.
2. The common gypsies (beggars/thieves/garbage collectors). These are the gypsies you can see all over the place. Begging in the cities, keeping their children naked in the streets to beg, breaking their children’s hands or legs to impress more and to get more money from begging, even putting their children on the iron train line so the train can cut one leg/one hand – again for begging; stealing from pockets, raping, beating, never washing and all the stuff you hear on TV. When police come to resolve a violent situation between two “common gypsies clans” (Shatras), the gypsy women start to lift their up their skirts (believe me, it is a horrible sight) and even use their children as shields/bats/clubs so policemen are in big difficulty. I am a Romanian in a dirty Romanian city suburb, I lived among Gypsies for many years and believe me what I am telling you is only 10% of the whole story. Any other Romanian here can confirm.
These are the people we tried so hard to integrate into society – this 2nd category. There are social programs for children to go to school, but they usually cause problems to other children (at home a common-gypsy child is never taught to behave). All gypsy young girls (including those from 1st category, but they started to realize this is wrong) are forced to marry at a young age (between 9 and 14 years) like in some Muslim countries. Law says women are allowed to marry from the age of 18 years. But no one can fully force the law on 2nd category gypsies. And many girls are forced to abandon school because at 11..14 years of age they are already pregnant.
I already told you they use to take the name of the people that adopted them. 1st gypsy category really became part of the natives. 2nd gypsy category took the name and used it everywhere. This is what is happening to Romania. When an Italian reads an article about “Romeno” (Romanian) and “Rom” (gypsy), what the *** is he suppose to understand? And how did this happen?
This lexical aggression (rom/rrom/Rome – Italian capital; Romanian/rromani/rromanes – see the beginning of this article to know where double r comes from) was applied to Romania after 1990 in a complex program developed by Soros Foundation for an Open Society in Romania. The language Mr. Soros wanted to replace “tsiganeshte” (țigăneasca) received the name “romalli”. This form was grammatically inflexible so it was replace with “romani” and later “rromani”. After that, to get closer to the real purpose of this charade, it was again modified with “roma, “romani”, “romanes”, “romanies” (or with double r). This creates general confusion even at academic intellectual levels in the countries affected by gypsy immigration and crime. So – general confusion. What the *** can anyone understand?
What is so curious – this word “rroma/roma/romalli/romani/rromanes” (single or double r) has no historical roots. Gypsies never had this name in all their history.
People get confused and mistake Romanians with gypsies. And anyone smart can realize – if Nazi Germany hated gypsies so much, why did they make Romania their ally at the beginning of the war? Simple – they knew the difference. We now live in a different society which no longer accepts violence as a solution. But also do not teach people about history. So good job RNS. You should also write this story on the web sites you will “visit” in future.
Most Frenchmen and Englishmen know jack squat about Romanians anyways, yet are quick to condemn them for their treatment of the poooooor gypsies. Guess what, now the gypsies have goine to Western Europe, deal with them. Form now on, we’ll remember to refer to Frenchmen as “beurs” and to Brits as “pakis”.
Agree. Best way to promote Romania is to knuckle down and make it a better place. A bit like our fave Romanian company, Dacia. Currently has the highest growth in sales of any European car maker.
Wow! If only Romanian hackers were as keen on promoting Romania, as they are on booing others for the so-called ‘cracks’ in our national image!
PS – Top Gear did us a great favor and a great honour by choosing to wreck their cars on our roads! Thank you! =))
maybe it was gypsy hackers who did this to make Romanians look bad
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