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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 360432, member: 2844"]Our Gypsies would never defend Travellers, they don't like them very much. The local Gypsies are mainly Sinti, related to the Manouche of France. </p><p>We do have some trouble with Roma from former Yugoslavia, they lost most of the traditions, just like many Romanian Roma. Centuries of slavery will do that to a culture.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree, the figurine is not a Gypsy. He could be a German Traveller, they had occupations like that. But a German Traveller is not an Irish Traveller.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 360432, member: 2844"]Our Gypsies would never defend Travellers, they don't like them very much. The local Gypsies are mainly Sinti, related to the Manouche of France. We do have some trouble with Roma from former Yugoslavia, they lost most of the traditions, just like many Romanian Roma. Centuries of slavery will do that to a culture. I agree, the figurine is not a Gypsy. He could be a German Traveller, they had occupations like that. But a German Traveller is not an Irish Traveller.;)[/QUOTE]
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