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Why do gypsies keep their customs?

When people settle in any particular place or country, they usually try to lead the same way of life as the local inhabitants. However, those tribes that spend their whole lives wandering around the world and never stop anywhere for a long time, continue to adhere to their own customs, wherever they find themselves. Gypsies are among such wandering peoples. Often among them you can meet those who have already managed to live in six different countries and speak several languages. European gypsies often stay for some time in one city or another, but soon set off to wander again.

Since the gypsies seem strange and alien, many Europeans do not like and fear them. This circumstance, of course, does not encourage the Gypsies to abandon their traditions and habits and adopt the customs of those who are wary and hostile towards them.

There are two groups of gypsies who are more inclined to a settled life - these are Hungarian and Spanish gypsies. Having lived for a long time in a country, the gypsies, as a rule, accept the religion that dominates in it, but they introduce many of their own primitive rites and rituals into it. No one knows exactly where the homeland of the gypsies is located, but it is believed that they come from India, from which they began to emigrate to Persia in the XNUMXth century.

In the XNUMXth century, they reached the borders of the Balkans and Greece, and then followed further west. For example, in England they appeared in the XNUMXth century.

Author: Likum A.

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