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- Today the issue of identity seems to have become very fashionable. Why will it be? Are we going through times of greater concern for our own identity, a fact that makes us reflect on the identities of others? The Rom people of Guadalajara have been sedentary for about twenty years living on the outskirts of the city. Could we or would they say that they felt (chez soi - at home) here in the houses they built? Yes, because the Rom bring home with them, their home is their family - not only parents and children but also cousins, uncles, brothers-in-law and nephews. Their home is their cultural practices that are never devoid of social meaning. Here, perhaps, we are witnesses of a territorial identity in its sense of a symbolic word. The Rom accept that you can feel anywhere chez soi as long as you bring your world with you. The Rom of Guadalajara make up a community of approximately five hundred to six hundred people (2016). They themselves often introduce themselves to non-Rom as Gypsies or Hungarians, since most people are unaware of the term Rom. Not one of these ethnonyms has much relevance as to its true origin. The popular misconception Hungarians, which is commonly used throughout Latin America, was perhaps created by themselves, since it was believed that they had come from Hungary. The term Gitanos for its part should be used correctly only to refer to the Gypsies of Spain, however it has become customary in the Spanish language to refer to any gypsy or nomadic group. Furthermore, the Rom of Guadalajara consider themselves Mexican. They were his great-great-grandparents who, at the end of the 19th century, began to cross the Atlantic Ocean and reach the American continent from Europe (both North and South America). Even within the continent itself, they moved a lot, so today it turns out that in Mexico there are Rom who are descendants of clans that used to live in Argentina, Peru or other Latin American countries. It should be underlined that the metamorphosis of their collective identity, the degree of their conservation and their continuous development in this environment, have been taking place in a completely different way from the European context, as if they have taken advantage of the fact that here, in the midst of a indigenous-mestizo mix, their presence enjoyed the possibility of going unnoticed or perceived only to an admissible point for them. They were not subjected to a forced sedentarization, they followed or passed to seminomadism because at a given moment it was convenient for them. Approximately until the nineties of the last century they wandered throughout Mexico with their traveling cinema. They literally took the water to their mill since they reached remote ranches where there was no television or electricity. They charged five pesos for admission and the locals welcomed them as they brought a bit of an artistic air to those cornered places. Electricity, television and video players put an end to the gypsy business. There are those who continue to err to this day, however the majority took advantage of favorable land prices in urban agglomerations and built their houses. The documentary recounts the daily life of the Rom as it happens on the outskirts of the second largest city in Mexico. These people who live by buying and selling used cars have managed to maintain their way of life based on compliance with the rules of social organization that includes respect for belonging to their lineage.
- A struggling high school student looking for an easy way to pass bribes his professor, just to soon discover that his actions will be rewarded in an unexpected way.