10-28-2006, 03:59 AM
Don't know where else to put this, may be appropriate here. Christian Europe had its own concept of untouchable:
( http://www.holocaust-trc.org/thegypsies.htm )
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->For centuries, Sinti and Roma were scorned and persecuted in Europe. <b>Zigeuner, the German word for Gypsy, derives from a Greek root meaning "untouchable."</b> In the Balkan principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, Gypsies were slaves bought and sold by monasteries and large estate holders (boyars) until 1864, when the newly formed nation of Romania emancipated them.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
( http://www.holocaust-trc.org/thegypsies.htm )
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->For centuries, Sinti and Roma were scorned and persecuted in Europe. <b>Zigeuner, the German word for Gypsy, derives from a Greek root meaning "untouchable."</b> In the Balkan principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, Gypsies were slaves bought and sold by monasteries and large estate holders (boyars) until 1864, when the newly formed nation of Romania emancipated them.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->