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Lívia Járóka is the second Romani Member of the European Parliament, having been elected as part of the Fidesz list in Hungary in June 2004. The first was Juan de Dios Ramirez-Heredia from Spain, who served from 1994-1999. The Roma people (pronounced rahma, singular Rom, sometimes Rroma, and Rrom) along with the closely related Sinti people are commonly known as Gypsies in English, and as Tsigany in most of Europe. ...
A Member of the European Parliament (English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Unions directly-elected legislative body, the European Parliament. ...
The Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union (in Hungarian: Fidesz – Magyar Polgári Szövetség) is a large conservative centre-right political party in Hungary; as of 2004 the most important one in the opposition. ...
2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Járóka grew up in Sopron, a town near Hungary's western border with Austria. The village did not have any other Roma families besides hers, so she experienced relatively little discrimination as a child. She comes from a family of musicians, although her father was a waiter and her mother was a seamstress. She has described herself as the daughter of a Jewish mother and a "very dark skinned" Roma father. At some point, her father's dark skin allegedly cost him his job, as Austrians visiting Sopron "didn't want to be served by a gypsy." She moved to Budapest as a teenager and found herself among other ethnic Roma, "awakening a curiosity in her Roma heritage." Sopron is the name of a town in Hungary. ...
The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ...
Budapest (pronounced BOO-dah-pesht, IPA ), the capital city of Hungary and the countrys principal political, industrial, commercial and transportation centre, has more than 1. ...
She went on to study anthropology in Britain, focusing on Roma issues and culture. In August 2003, she had a daughter. As of January 2005, she was still enrolled as a senior PhD anthropology student at University College London researching the politics of ethnic identity among Roma in Hungary. Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθρωπος = human) consists of the study of humankind (see genus Homo). ...
2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Events January January 1 - Luíz Inácio Lula Da Silva becomes the 37th President of Brazil. ...
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Front Quad University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ...
Roma is: The Latin, Italian, Romanian and Spanish name for the Italian city of Rome. ...
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