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单项选择题TEXT B The striving of countries
in Central Europe to enter the European Union may offer an unprecedented chance
to the continent’s Gypsies (or Roman) to be recognized as a nation, albeit one
without a defined territory. And if they were to achieve that they might even
seek some kind of formal place at least a total population outnumbers that of
many of the Union’s present and future countries. Some experts put the
figure at 4m- some proponents of Gypsy rights go as high as 15m.
Unlike Jews, Gypsies have had no known ancestral land to hark back to.
Though their language is related to Hindi, their territorial origins are misty.
Romanian peasants held them to be born on the moon. Other Europeans (wrongly)
thought them migrant Egyptians, hence the derivative Gypsy. Most probably they
were itinerant metal workers and entertainers who drifted west from India in the
7th century. However, since communism in Central
Europe collapsed a decade ago, the notion of Romanestan as a landless nation
founded on Gypsy culture has gained ground. The International Romany
Union, which says it stands for 10m Gypsies in more than 30 countries, is
fostering the idea of "sell-rallying". It is trying to promote a standard and
it waves a Gypsy flag (green with a wheel) when it
lobbies in such places as the United B and in July it held a congress in
Prague, The Czech capital. Where President Vaclav Havel said that Gypsies in his
own country and elsewhere should have a better deal. At the
congress a Slovak-born lawyer, Emil Scuka, was elected president of the
International Tomany Union. Later this month a group of elected Gypsy
politicians, including members of parliament, mayors and local councilors from
all over Europe (OSCE), to discuss how to persuade more Gypsies to get involved
in politics. The International Romany Union is probably the most
representative of the outfits that speak for Gypsies, but that is not saying a
lot. Of the several hundred delegates who gathered at its congress, few were
de oddly, none came from Hungary, whose Gypsies are perhaps
the world’s best organized, with some 450 Gypsy bodies advising local councils
there. The union did, however, announce its ambition to set up a parliament, but
how it would actually be elected was left undecided. So far, the
European Commission is wary of encouraging Gypsies to present themselves as a
nation. The might, it is feared, open a Pandora’s box already containing
Basques, Corsicans and other awkward peoples. Besides, acknowledging
Gypsies as a nation might backfire, just when several countries, particularly
Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, are beginning to treat them better, in
order to qualify for EU membership. "The EU’s whole premise is to overcome
differences, not to highlight them," says a nervous Eurocrat.
But the idea that the Gypsies should win some kind of special recognition
as Europe’s largest continent wide minority, and one with a terrible history of
persecution, is catching on. Gypsies have suffered many pogroms over the
centuries. In Romania, the country that still has the largest number of them
(more than lm), in the 19th century they were actually enslaved.
Hitler tried to wipe them out, along with the Jews.
deserve some space within European structures,"
says Jan Marinus Wiersma, a Dutchman in the European Parliament who
suggests that one of the current commissioners should be responsible for Gypsy
affairs. Some prominent Gypsies say they should be more directly represented,
perhaps with a quota in the European Parliament. That, they argue, might give
them a boost. There are moves afoot to help them to get money for, among other
things, a Gypsy university. One big snag is that Europe’s
Gypsies are, in fact, extremely heterogeneous. They belong to many different,
and often antagonistic, clans and tribes, with no common la0nguage or religion,
Their self-proclaimed leaders have often proved quarrelsome and corrupt. Still,
says, Dimitrina Petrova, head of the European Roma Rights Center in Budapest,
Gypsies’ shared experience of suffering entities them t
their potential unity, she says, stems from "being regarded as sub human by most
majorities in Europe." And they have begun to be a bit more
pragmatic. In Slovakia and Bulgaria, for instance, Gypsy political parties
are trying to form electoral blocks that could win seats in parliament. In
Macedonia, a Gypsy party already has some--and even runs a municipality.
Nicholas Gheorge, an expert on Gypsy affairs at the OSCE, reckons that, spread
over Central Europe, there are now about 20 Gypsy MPS and mayors,
400-odd local councilors, and a growing number of businessmen and
intellectuals. That is far from saying that they have the people
or the cash to forge a nation. But, with the Gypsy question on the EU’s agenda
in Central Europe, they are making ground.Where are the most probable Gypsy territory originsA．Most probably they drifted west from India in the 7th century.B．They are scattered everywhere in the world.C．Probably, they stemmed from Central Europe.D．They probably came from the International Romany Union.
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