Through repeated waves of exclusion, Roma communities preserved their language, music and family structures with remarkable resilience. Cultural continuity became a form of survival when legal and social protection was absent.
That endurance is why so much Roma heritage survives to be documented today.
Sources & further reading: Council of Europe history factsheets and Wikipedia.
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