Minority Versus Majority—Phrase or Reality?

Abstract

The question of minorities or majorities is the relationship between different types of social groups, which are usually characterized by their different characteristics and social status. They are the result of different developments by which individual social groups have undergone a shorter or longer development. They determined their properties and social status. It is a global process of how individual social groups are formed in different countries, states, continents or cultures. How they live and have been formed, strengthened, gained their position, or became disintegrated. From this point of view, they have a powerful relations and importance in their given previous wider society in which they live. One of the most important ways of controlling life, changes in culture and the existence of minorities has been the use of European and other majority languages and religions. In particular, well organized new educational and religious organizations suffered at the expensed original minority tradition. From an historical point of view it is a long-term process the foundations of which lay in the time of long-term movement of individuals and currents from the formation of human communities. The most extensive trials took place during Colonialism, when the European states colonized and took control of the countries of America, Africa and Asia, which fell victim to them, in a relatively short process. Not only immediately as Indians, but also, for example, millions of slaves transferred to America. Their relations between minorities and the majority last to the presence. As we deal with Europe, their internal conditions have shaped their development. As one of the tendencies, determined especially in the so-called “Drang nach Osten”, especially the Germans (Germans and Austrians), with some successes, but also a general inability to assert their ideas in Central and Eastern Europe, as was the case in the two world wars. This concerned the communities, on their way especially to Eastern and Central Europe. They fought with the idea of their complete power control, as was and is the case with the Hungarian tribes. On their long way to Eastern and Central Europe while occupying long-inhabited areas. In all those processes, we must realize that the individual power units by force and their idea of their “permanent” control, as the so-called minority or minorities. They are a permanent and partially open process as to our days. In our case, these are similar processes of changing countries with a process of their permanent control. In the case of my contribution, the problem is the incoming social groups of the Roma and Sinti, who have formed in all European countries by their arrival since the late middle Ages in individual European states and minority areas. However, they developed over the centuries but remained in the position of a memorial, ruled in all proportions as a minority existing under the majority, as is the case today.