No room on the political map?

(From The Slovak Spectator)

Editorial ALL SOCIETIES have invisible minorities, people who live on the margins.

The majority knows they are out there but pay essentially no attention to them unless it feels threatened by them.

Then there are minorities that are physically visible, wearing the stereotypes that the majority has prepared for them in order to highlight their place on the social map.

However, these minorities often remain politically invisible, and very few find a position on the political maps.

While the Hungarian minority, the largest minority group in Slovakia, cannot complain about a lack of political visibility, Slovakias Roma, the second largest minority group, is politically completely invisible.

The Roma have traditionally belonged to the most socially and economically deprived groups in Slovakia and across Central and Eastern Europe.