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;forcibly given for adoption to non-Gypsy families.
But the Gypsies have confounded predictions of their disappearance as a distinct ethnic group and their numbers have burgeoned. Today there are an estimated 8 to 12 million Gypsies scattered across Europe, making them the continent’s largest minority. The exact number is hard to pin down. Gypsies have regularly been undercounted, both by regimes anxious to downplay their profile and by Gypsies themselves, seeking to avoid bureaucracies. Attempting to remedy past inequities, activist groups may overcount. Hundreds of thousands more have emigrated to the Americas and elsewhere. With very few exceptions Gypsies have expressed no great desire for a country to call their own -unlike the Jews, to whom the Gypsy experience is often compared. “Romanestan” said Ronald Lee, the Canadian Gypsy writer, "is where my two feet stand."
16. Gypsies are united only when they
A are engaged in traditional crafts.
B. call themselves Roma.
C. live under a clan system.
D. face external threats.
17. In history hostility to Gypsies in Europe resulted in their persecution by all the following
EXCEPT
A. the Egyptians.
B the state.
C. the church.
D. the Nazis.
18. According to the passage, the main difference between the Gypsies and the Jews lies in their concepts of
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