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Radio Free Roma

Budapest station breaks down “gypsy” stereotypes

By Tony Wesolowsky

Anthropologist Livia Jaroka vowed to keep a cool academic head when she agreed to work at Eastern Europe’s first all-Roma radio station. But enthusiasm soon got the better of her. “It’s incredible what’s going on at the station,” says the 27-year-old Jaroka, the daughter of a Jewish mother and a father whom she describes as a “very dark-skinned” Roma. “People working… return to article

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