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⌈ Secret Post #3238 ⌋

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Re: The word "gypsy"

[(Anonymous)]

I've lived in the UK and the US.

I think gypsy is mostly a word without much context. There aren't enough Roma people for anyone to really have an image of them, besides like Esmerelda in Hunchback of Notre Dame, who was also specifically called a gypsy. I don't think people tend to think of the word as describing an actual ethnicity or nation of people so much as the image of wandering performers. The word itself just sounds like a job or way of life, of sorts.

Definitely different in Europe, when gypsy is a lot more derogatory. There are still groups of Roma people who are seen as wanderers, but they are almost always associated with crime and causing trouble. As far as I know, there is no real equivalent in the US, so that dynamic is hard to understand.

But then again, something can be wrong even without contextual background. I'd say blackface is wrong even if your country has no history of black slavery of minstrel shows, for example. So if the word "gypsy" is incorrect and offensive to real Roma people, then it's not so much about intent as it is about being respectful to the people who've been victimized because of it.