Dalila live in a contradiction. It is defined primarily as a Gypsy woman, loves his people and traditions, and so she dresses as a gypsy, living in groups such as Gypsies and speaks their language, Romany. But just for the sake of their 'kumpania', the name given to the Romany community, has broken with most of archetypes that constrain Gypsy women. Is an industrial engineer, has worked for the Administration of Colombia, and the council of patriarchs of the community, an institution closed to women, not making some decisions without first consulting her. "I always do what I want," he said. No small feat. Their goal: to fight for the rights of Roma.
Your way to the rebellion began at age 18 when he decided he wanted to go to college. Against the wishes of the whole family, more concerned to marry than anything else, Dalila graduated with money he earned his fortune by reading the fellow student. "My father did not want to study and told me that if I did I would gady (paya), which in college is learning bad things, like drug abuse or prostitution. "
As few Roma women have made in Colombia, Dalila not married at 15 years, became pregnant and went on to become an industrial engineer specializing in management and development planning. Moved through several companies, Western disguised for fear of discrimination, up to the government, where he began working for the rights of its people. His commitment was embodied in a decree recognizing the Roma as an ethnic minority Colombian present in the country since colonial times, and in a census. "Now we are a factor to be taken into account in the budget, because the Roma have several challenges. One of them is to implement prevention policies in health, because culturally they do not prevent Roma. Another challenge is the education of children who leave school early because their cultural patterns do not fit the homogenizing education system of Western society. " In fact, Colombia is estimated that 70% of Roma children have never set foot in a school.
Most problems stem from cultural clashes, and Dalila has experimientado in their life history. During his early school years a child remembers being identified by their customs "strange" and the way they dress. "He spoke good Castilian and had a funny accent because my family always talk Romany. In addition, my classmates did not understand why he had no home and lived in a tent. " Was the target of ridicule, but because she wanted to obtain the aguntó. In addition, to fit, had to adapt to new patterns of authority. "I was very rebellious because they understand that the teacher had to send. In the kumpania only the patriarch has authority over others and children are always very free. "
And that freedom is one of the most cherished values \u200b\u200bof the Roma people, who claim to be libertarians. They do not want masters or bosses, do not accept nor grasping routines, and no time like slaves. "We live in the present, in the here and now. We neglect the past, and that partly because reclamanos hurts us justice. We have not monetized the Holocaust as the Jews. " Neither care about the future, hence the lack of interest in prevention, protection and savings. "If we have money we are spending money and share it with others", as their conception of life is collective. Unattached
matter and territories, the gypsies are nomadic conception of life, but today is an option not feasible because of the borders, and in Colombia, by the armed conflict. "While the war generates displacement in many victims, we suffer the confinement. We are hostages within a territory, and that quality of life we \u200b\u200bhave left. "
However, mobility is their mental level. And that is what gives life to Dalila. "When I worked for the administration offered me a permanent position but declined. Being on staff is not made for me. " However, has never lacked employment, and so is the financial support of his extended family, with 20 members. "My father and my brothers do not have a stable economy because they are goldsmiths and do not sell much. I hold them all, and are proud of me for my work. "
However, before a woman was chased by the patriarchs of the community, and was at risk of being excluded by their work publicly in defense of the interests of Roma. "I made several trials to give me because I was accused of replacing men. I would not accept that leadership. "
precisely the lack of representation of women and asusencia in the organs of power is for another challenge Dalila faced by the Roma. "We have to change certain things, such as our access to higher education, to be in a better situation." However, he stressed that "this does not mean change our ways."
Refers to patriliniales lineages that organize the group, and the differentiation between men and women, which he says "they take care of them ". For Dalila's not machismo. "Gypsies have learned to be macho Western society, not our culture," he said. "I see sexism as a matter of capitalism, in which men want women to possess, but the Roma is not a matter of possession, but of respect. "Dalila
about preserving the essence Gypsy molds to the new times, and began the experiment with your own life. Changed his destiny as gypsy woman studying, planning and investing in its future to be autonomous, and has come to be heard by the organs of power of his kumpania. Dalila has broken Roma schemes to keep them. Itself seems a contradiction, but life is full of them.
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