Now young Gypsies like Dragan Ristic, a theatre director, are beginning to assert their identity.
Still, whether to assert their identity or protect themselves, Mexican gangs have taken root in the schools, they said.
This is the vulnerable age when individuals start to assert their identity and move away from home and individuate.
To the pachucos, the baggy, finely tailored zoot suit was a symbol of pride, a way to assert their identity.
Critics said her "wild and satirical confidence" led the way for solo female artists to "assert their identity without having to resort to sex appeal".
Campaigning to preserve their language has become one of the main outlets for Berbers to assert their identity and resist "hogra" or marginalisation.
British-born Muslims are more likely than their parents to assert their identity in the public sphere, express anti-western feelings, and feel a strong sense of victimisation.
The faithfully observant, who live largely in exurban areas, are, after decades in which public expression of religion was taboo, beginning to assert their identity.
Does he think grime music and artists such as Dizzee Rascal or Afrikan Boy have helped kids of African descent to feel more confident in asserting their identity?
Leave that to those who need to assert their identity by visiting spurious sites of Anglo Saxon/Celtic mythology to hold their 400 quid iPhones in the air and wave 'em like they just don't care!
These life-journey projects are both heartbreaking as a record of the progression toward death and liberating as a record of how men and women assert their identity more strongly as they age.
