Are the Albanians descendents of Roma/Gypsies?

[crnitrn]

Albanians are the criminals Gypsies are just a little different.Many people in the U.S. don't care for Gypsies because like my Mother used to tell me if i was bad gypsies would kidnap me and turn me into a Gypsy. Many Americans do not like Albanians either because they tend to be thieves. The only Americans who like Albanians are Americans in Govt. Although i have to say my brother had a few Albanian friends but they lost  their Albanian traits they escaped to Sicily many generations ago so they're not really Albanian anymore they just remember they were once Albanians.They identify themselves more as Sicilians

Sicilians are mafia so do they evolved to something bigger!

[mord]

Sicilians are mafia so do they evolved to something bigger!

But Sicilians have some morals Albanians have none.They would pickpocket a 90yr old lady of her last penny

[crnitrn]

But Sicilians have some morals Albanians have none.They would pickpocket a 90yr old lady of her last penny

I just made the joke 

[mord]

I just made the joke 

[crnitrn]

 

[Kerber]

Albanians are the criminals Gypsies are just a little different.Many people in the U.S. don't care for Gypsies because like my Mother used to tell me if i was bad gypsies would kidnap me and turn me into a Gypsy. Many Americans do not like Albanians either because they tend to be thieves. The only Americans who like Albanians are Americans in Govt. Although i have to say my brother had a few Albanian friends but they lost  their Albanian traits they escaped to Sicily many generations ago so they're not really Albanian anymore they just remember they were once Albanians.They identify themselves more as Sicilians

The same situation was with me, too. It looks like it's a global phenomena.  

[crnitrn]

The same situation was with me, too. It looks like it's a global phenomena.  

Yes ,in serbia, people use that method to "scare" children if they been "bad"!

[crnitrn]

http://serbstvo.yuku.com/topic/186/master/1/?page=1

[Eden Ben Yitzchak]

The Albenians are of Indo-germanic origin

[Zelhar]

Yes it's true, Albanians are real Caucasians - descending from the Caucasus region which had been their their original home until some 6 or 7 centuries ago or so. I suspect that these vermin begum to infest the Balkans along with the Turkish conquest.

[Eden Ben Yitzchak]

Aren't Serbs and Croats caucasians too?

[crnitrn]

Aren't Serbs and Croats caucasians too?

If you are caucasian , than we are caucasians to!

[Eden Ben Yitzchak]

I am Jewish Caucasian. And I'm proud to be a Caucasian. By the way, how do you say ''caucasian'' in Serbian? ''kavkazski''?

[voo-yo]

I am Jewish Caucasian. And I'm proud to be a Caucasian. By the way, how do you say ''caucasian'' in Serbian? ''kavkazski''?

We don't use the term "kavkazac" for one's race. We just say white - belac. Caucasian for us is someone who lives in the area of Caucasus mountain.
I just want to know, why are you proud of your skin color? It's not much of an accomplishment.

[crnitrn]

Ok, did you ask for region  or race I had a feeling that you ask for region. If you ask for region, serbs are not truly from there, yes on serbian we say "kavkazski region"!

[Zelhar]

I think the term should be, if it should Caucasus related at all, "Caucasoid". So that the term caucausian will only be used for what it's supposed to mean- a person from the Caucasus.

[Eden Ben Yitzchak]

Are all white people originally from the Caucasus? Why do we call a white person Caucasian?

[Kerber]

@Eden Ben Yitzchak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caucasian_race

The concept of a Caucasian race or Varietas Caucasia was developed around 1800 by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a German scientist and classical anthropologist.[4] Blumenbach named it after the Caucasian peoples (from the Northern Caucasus region), whom he considered to be the archetype for the grouping.[5] He based his classification of the Caucasian race primarily on craniology.[6] Blumenbach wrote:
"Caucasian variety - I have taken the name of this variety from Mount Caucasus, both because its neighborhood, and especially its southern slope, produces the most beautiful race of men, I mean the Georgian; and because all physiological reasons converge to this, that in that region, if anywhere, it seems we ought with the greatest probability to place the autochthones (birth place) of mankind."[7]
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So, you see, it is most common in Germanic nations. In Serbia this term is never used for defining major groups("races") of people.

When we say on this Forum that Albanians are Caucasians we are referring to their geographical origin - Caucasus Mountains area, near Black Sea.