Britain's Gypsy Kids: What It's Like Growing Up As A Traveller Where Childhood Is Short

**♥ Lily ♥** · 08-05-2018, 11:53 AM

This is the national UK census form (below) and the section for white people to specify their ethnic group... White Gypsies/Travellers like to identify as their own group:

**TheMaestro** · 08-05-2018, 11:53 AM

Paddy Doherty is a legend

Anyways those Irish travellers should not be named gypsies because they are just as it says "Irish travellers" far from looking like real gypsies even tho, they live the same lifestyle. But that makes me think does travelling by vans from place to place make you a gypsy or your appeareance?

**♥ Lily ♥** · 08-05-2018, 11:58 AM

Originally Posted by TheMaestro

Paddy Doherty is a legend

Anyways those Irish travellers should not be named gypsies because they are just as it says "Irish travellers" far from looking like real gypsies even tho, they live the same lifestyle. But that makes me think does travelling by vans from place to place make you a gypsy or your appeareance?

A gypsy is a person who is culturally free-spirited and lives an unconventional and nomadic lifestyle, like a traveller. We have English gypsies too.

**♥ Lily ♥** · 08-05-2018, 11:58 AM

**♥ Lily ♥** · 08-05-2018, 12:04 PM

A song I love by an English early gothic, pagan, folk-rock band which always reminded me as a child of the free and wild countryside spirit of gypsies.

**TheMaestro** · 08-05-2018, 12:07 PM

I know, I acutally saw documentary about Irish travellers, I am just used to see different type of gyspies and those you have in your country are white and those I knew were non-white.

**♥ Lily ♥** · 08-05-2018, 12:19 PM

Cher Lloyd was raised in Worcestershire, England.

Her family is of Romani origin, and Cher spent the first year of her life travelling around Wales with a gypsy cultural lifestyle with her young parents in a caravan.

**♥ Lily ♥** · 07-21-2019, 10:37 PM

**Duffmannn** · 07-21-2019, 11:14 PM

These people are not gypsies.

**Bellbeaking** · 07-21-2019, 11:32 PM

Gypsies remind me of Vikings, us North Europeans used to act like gypsies travelling around causing chaos raiding and pillaging in our Pagan days.

Cool pic.

Originally Posted by Duffmannn

These people are not gypsies.

We have real Gypsies here too, interestingly they and the Irish gypsies have culturally influenced each other a fair bit. Supposedly over 5% of the vocab in the Irish Traveller language Shelta is of romani origin