Looking for my gypsy roots

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Radio C, the Roma station in Budapest, has stopped broadcasting news in Romany. The reason?--there aren't enough Romany words for many 21st century concepts. Among the missing words is 'globalizati...

Radio C, the Roma station in Budapest, has stopped broadcasting news in Romany. The reason?--there aren't enough Romany words for many 21st century concepts. Among the missing words is 'globalization.' And yet few people in the world are having more difficulty confronting globalization than the Roma in Hungary. Under-employed, under-educated and often alienated, they feel excluded from the young democracy's growing prosperity. And yet many Hungarians feel the Roma have bought this exclusion on themselves.

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