For most Roma communities the extended family, not the individual, is the basic unit of life. Loyalty, mutual support and respect for elders structure daily existence, and identity is rooted in kinship that can span many households and borders.
This closeness has been a source of resilience through centuries of exclusion, preserving language, custom and music when wider society offered no support.
Sources & further reading: Council of Europe Roma culture factsheets and Wikipedia.
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