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Show r'""s By READER'S DIGEST For AP Newsfeatures Down pillows and comforters are a joy to own and use. Fall is the time to make sure they are clean and in perfect shape for another winter's comfort. Pillows: With normal use, down pillows need cleaning only once a year. To protect the outer shell from stains, keep it in a zippered, washable pillow protector, sold in linen departments. Dry cleaning: Before either dry cleaning or washing, be sure to repaif any open seams or loose stitching. If you would like your pillows dry cleaned, find a reputable cleaner who is experienced with down products. Air a pillow well before sleeping on it. Washing: Down pillows should be washed two at a time. To wash them in your home washer, follow these steps: Use the gentle cycle, warm water and a mild detergent. Use half the amount of detergent you would in a normal load. Agitate the water and soap until well mixed. Stop the machine, immerse the pillows and continue the cycle. To aid rotation, add a pair of clean sneakers without laces. ' Repeat the rinse cycle until the water runs clear. To dry the pillows, set the dryer on Low. Include the sneakers they'll help fluff up the down. ullrt 'i Editor's Note: He's an inter-nation- Hancock's father was taken away from his parents because they were Gypsies and put in government care at age 7, Hancock says. "For any Gypsy, you are pretty well taught to hide your ethnicity in al Gypsy leader, a Texas teacher with a mission. Ian Hancock has spent years trying to debunk myths that foster hatred of his people, who number about 12 million around the world. His forum is a classroom at the University of Texas. . By SCOTT ROTHSCHILD Associated Press Writer - always talking about gypping somebody. It's that association with fraud. It's always either romanticized or insulting. Either way we're not seen as real people." Ian Hancock, Professor Gypsy culture and language University of Texas minutes. If this fails, add more down. Shake the filling to one end of the shell. Open part of the opposite seam and insert the neck of another pillow or a bag of down, in the opening. Add down a bit at a time. Sew up the opening with a fine needle and small stitches. about gypping somebody. It's that association with fraud. It's always either romanticized or insulting. Either way we're not seen as real people." Hancock, 47, recalls the scorn of he felt while growing up in Britain. His family was directed to the back door of pubs after they had been in the fields all day harvesting hops. You can make a temporary repair to a rip or an opened seam cloth with pressure-sensitiv- e tape.To mend a rip permanently, use a fine needle and fine thread. this: Put the pillow in the dryer with a sneaker or tennis ball. Set the dryer on Low and tumble for 10 always "Somebody's talking non-Gypsi- es the outside world because it just invites problems," he says. Two things triggered Hancock's determination to struggle openly against discrimination. As a young man, he was denied entry to Canada for a visit. The official reason, he says, was his Gypsy heritage. Then in 1969 he was horrified by news accounts' of an English Gypsy woman whose home was bulldozed while she was giving birth. That child and her three other children were killed in the demolition. Gypsies, who prefer to be called Roma, are believed to have migrated from India to Europe more than 1,000 years ago. They number about 12 million throughout the world, about 1 million in the United States. Their language, Romani, is a Sanskrit dialect influenced by the languages of countries where they have lived. Hancock's class, offered by the university's Linguistics Department, combines language and cultural studies. He teaches about 30 undergraduates and a handful of graduate students each semester. The courses cover Gypsy traditions such as reluctance to marry and their rules for food preparation, similar to the Jewish kosher requirements. But course work also covers the prejudices that Hancock says have non-Gypsi- toy Cathy Guise wit e catny9 IN IN WERSIZED IN ftllLAN". IN LONDON 0UERSI2ED BATHROOM: IW Poland, Hancock was elected head the Romanf Union, which is composed of national Gypsy lead- says. y laws in the UnitMost ed States were repealed by 1984, thanks to the lobbying efforts of Gypsy families, according to Ruth Andersen of Austin, who has done extensive research on the subject. But oppression continues in Eastern Europe, Hancock says. Gypsies were the target of Romanian miners who rampaged through Bucharest in early June. In Czechoslovakia, Hancock says, Gypsies are being forcibly sterilized. Political rhetoric and popular songs in many Eastern European coun- of anti-Gyps- ers. His fight against discrimination continues. Nearly two decades after joining the University of Texas, Hancock says he still finds people there uncomfortable about Gypsies. "There are colleagues of mine that are very nervous, they're not sure of how to deal with me," he says. "One of them asked me if it were really true that Gypsy girls had very loose morals. One asked me how long I've been in jail." To protect themselves, Gypsies exploit the stereotype, he says. "If people want to believe that we're magic and can curse people ... if that stops them from hurting us, then we're going to do it," he . eye-open- Gypsies, he says. After one semester of his class, one student thanked Hancock for presenting Gypsies as real people,, but said she would always prefer the romantic image of wandering " Gypsies. ' i & if u fi cock's class thinking it would be an easy elective credit. she Instead, it was an says. Before, she says, "I didn't even know they were a race of people. I thought they were a people who preferred not to work and had a life." carefree, Ms. Hilton also discovered firsthand the myths Hancock tries to debunk. Researcliing a paper, she interviewed Austin police detectives who told her they dealt with Gypsies involved in car-the-ft rings and fraud rackets. "The police officer said Gypsy culture is that they are thieves and they are proud of that fact. They're raised to steal," she says. Although he dropped out of school at 14, Hancock was enrolled at tne University of London as part of an experimental program. He had caught the attention of a professor who was impressed by his independent studies on West African languages. In his spare time away from his factory job, Hancock was taking notes on West African language from neighbors in his building. He eventually acquired his doctorate degree, taught in the West Indies and arrived in Austin in 1972. 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TI&HTS, TOP. shaped the insular culture. "They were horribly oppressed and they are discriminated against today," says Michelle Hilton, a government major from Houston who signed up for Han- - Hardiy a day will go by without hearing the word Gypsy mentioned in a song or on a television program. "Somebody's Abut the two edges and close with a tiny stitches. Then hand-stitc- h fabric patch over the mend. In time, a down pillow loses the ability to trap air. To revive it, try Repair: r hiinotion in mw nonnlo tn erlnriate the wnrlri:'wfi're fiahtinn tremendous innnrannfi and nreiudice' n Some AUSTIN, Texas (AP) students show up for Ian Hancock's class barefoot, wearing beads and bandanas. He hates it when they they do that. "I get rid of that real quick," says Hancock, who for 10 years has taught Gypsy culture and language at the University of Texas. The students' attempts at Gypsy fashion perpetrate myths that underlie hatred of Gypsies, Hancock says. The hatred, he says, caused Gypsies to be enslaved for hundreds of years in Romania and other countries. During World War II they were almost wiped out by Nazis. Prejudices were carried over to the United States in laws designed to keep Gypsies on the move, ironically fulfilling the stereotype of ; nomadic bands, he says. Discrimination has increased recently in Eastern Europe, where new freedoms have been accompanied by old hatreds and Gypsies once again are the target of violence, says Hancock, who was recently elected head of an international Gypsy organization. "The biggest shock for students is to learn the extent of the prejudice," he says. "But once you've been made aware of it, you start seeing it. Hardly a day will go by without hearing the word Gypsy mentioned in a song or on a television program. dry-clean- B3 He debunks myfhs on gypsy culture, language Putt and fluff 11 - Page THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, 1990 Sunday, September 9, TOP. 0DERSI2ED TOP. 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