- You're from Bohemia, which comprises the western two-thirds of the Czech Republic.
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- More than likely you've been called Bohemian if you're a nonconformist artist or writer. The term originated in France to describe starving artists who usually lived among the Roma people, who were believed to come from Bohemia. While Bohemian was originally a pejorative term because of its connections to the Romani, it quickly became a positive,
"The term 'Bohemian' has come to be very commonly accepted in our day as the description of a certain kind of literary gipsey, no matter in what language he speaks, or what city he inhabits .... A Bohemian is simply an artist or littérateur who, consciously or unconsciously, secedes from conventionality in life and in art." (Westminster Review, 1862)
Now you know what it means to be Bohemian. I wonder what the people of the western Czech Republic call non-conformists?
