Romanians are not Gypsies!

[TheForeigner]

I am tired of idiot trolls and other morons on this forum calling me and other Romanians or all Romanians Gypsies. Sure, Gypsies are people too, but you know they are not either confused or in love with Gypsies. It ain't cute when you make allusions to the similarity between the ethnonyms of the 2 peoples. This whole thing is like calling all Americans ''niggers'', because a minority of their citizens are black. It is the same exact situation with Gypsies being a mere minority in Romanian and in the large Romanian diaspora. So stop it retards!

[LoLeL]

They won't stop because trolling and "out of ass" posts are essential parts of this forum. It's better to ignore them and post more threads about ethnic Romanians.

[Sekkmer]

OK, it's just a misnomer which is a miserable case. Gypsies are gypsies, Zigeuner, Țiganii, cigányok:

French gitan, English gypsy, Spanish gitano, Turkish kipti, all from Greek Αἰγύπτιος Aigýptios "Egyptian" (corrupted form: Γύφτος Gýftos), and Hungarian faraonépe from Greek φαραώ pharaó "pharaoh"
English tzigane (for Hungarian gypsies), French tzigane, Old High German zigeuner, German zigeuner, Dutch zigeuner, Old Church Slavic ациганинъ, Italian zingaro, Romanian țigan, Hungarian cigány, Czech "cikán", Portuguese cigano, Turkish çingene, Slovak cigán or cigáň, Venetian singano, Russian цыгане, Georgian ციგანი; from Greek ἀθίγγανος athínganos (corrupted form: τσιγγάνος tsingános)

[leone]

Doesn't matter if you are gypsies or not. When people (non Romanians) think about Romania, the first thing is gypsy what comes their mind.

[Grishnack]

Yes they are! Stop with this propaganda. /s

[Mortimer]

I am tired of idiot trolls and other morons on this forum calling me and other Romanians or all Romanians Gypsies. Sure, Gypsies are people too, but you know they are not either confused or in love with Gypsies. It ain't cute when you make allusions to the similarity between the ethnonyms of the 2 peoples. This whole thing is like calling all Americans ''niggers'', because a minority of their citizens are black. It is the same exact situation with Gypsies being a mere minority in Romanian and in the large Romanian diaspora. So stop it retards!

true.

[Sekkmer]

Roman Empire = Gipsy Empire?
Holy Roman Empire = Holy Gipsy Empire?

'Romani people' is a stupid term/expression, as far as I'm concerned.

[TheForeigner]

Doesn't matter if you are gypsies or not. When people (non Romanians) think about Romania, the first thing is gypsy what comes their mind. Non gypsy Romanians also commit crimes, do the same parasitic lifestyle anywhere in the West.

You jackass, there are a few millions of Romanians in Western Europe and only a small minority are petty criminals. The vast majority are honest and hard working people. Italy has like 2 millions of Romanians and Spain over a million. How many do you think are criminals?

[Tommie]

Also, not everyone in Western Europe is an angel, either. ANYONE can commit a crime, no matter the race and ethnicity. Every country has its own minority of petty criminals.

[Gold-Shekel]

It is common to call Gypsies "Romanian" and Romanians "Gypsies" in French speaking Europe.