I’m confused. I’m Roma, and I’m white. Who should I be making generalizing remarks to? Hm, perhaps I’ll just address the assholes of whatever skin tone instead of making it about personal biases regarding a group of people purely based on their skin. Aka, bigotry.

Well, one of the oldies is that we Roma are know to be baby thieves. If you need’em, we can acquire’em for ya!

We’re already here and unfortunately assimilated a long time ago. We would have preferred acculturation, but when you’re fleeing genocide you’ll take what you can get.

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We find gypsy offensive when used by non-gypsies. I am a gyspy, I am not your gypsy. When someone who is not a gypsy is referring to us as a gypsy you’re calling me a slave. When we are calling each other a gypsy, we’re referring to who we are/were as a people. It has an entire other cultural foundation of meaning…

To be fair, I doubt most Europeans and even a good portion of Roma know where their ethnic backgrounds lie. My family kept a pretty solid record, mostly in part due to the fact that we tried to send young couples to the US on a few occasions beginning with the Dutch on the Mayflower. Unfortunately, all attempts to…

As a Roma, I’d think it’s cute. At least you’re representing us in a romanticized way instead of as baby thieves/pickpockets :) But, uh, leave the scarf off your head if that was part of the costume, that just looks silly.

Generally we’re call thieves, baby thieves, inbreds, satanists(HA! most Roma are devout Catholics), we’re made fun of having genocide committed against us by two countries at the same time, dirty, beggars, etc. Basic nonsense.

Our solution was to tell the Nazis fuck you, we’re sick of your concentration camps and left for the US in the 40's. It’s been an interesting process of fitting in since then, but I’ve done well enough for myself :)

What’s funny is, as a Roma I speak fluent German and all of my family except for me now live in Stuttgart. Whenever I visit Germans just assume I’m a white American and compliment me on how well I speak German. Granted, I am Bohem Romani so my complexion is far more western European looking compared to what people…

Roma here. Recently I had an interesting conversation going on, on “The Root” how I had no idea what it is to be black and that any input I had regarding the conversation was therefore invalid. I didn’t bother to drop the “ethnic” card or my people’s history and just left it be. I’d prefer to be judged by the merit…

I use “ripped off” in front of other people. I use “gypped” around other Roma just for the irony.

True that, I’ve had a number of people tell me they had no idea gypped was offensive when I explain it to them. They thought the etymology came from world war II and the Japanese. Hence people mistakenly spelling it “jipped.” Not that that makes it any better ;)

Zigeuner is used within my family specifically. But with that said, I tend to explain to people it’s parallels the n-word use with black Americans. We use it between ourselves colloquially because it’s our heritage, it’s who we are. But I am not your zigeuner or gypsy. Do not refer to me as one. We are the Roma…

Call us Roma or Romani, can’t go wrong with that. We’ll refer to each other as other things in private or among ourselves, but those are terms relegated to use between other Roma.

“Gypsy” here and no, we refer to ourselves as gypsies, roma, romani, or whatever foreign language specific word that has carried over. For us it’s zigeuner.

That said, it’s much like black Americans using the n-word towards each other. It’s lost its original intended meaning and has become colloquially used as…

Roma here, we tend to refer to ourselves as Roma, Romani or gypsies. If you speak a foreign language you’ll also find the variant of that languages’ term for gypsy being used towards each other. Within my family it’s zigeuner.

When referencing all Roma, which rarely ever happens because there’s a whole lot of…

“When Prophet Muhammad (salallahu alayhi wa sallam) was travelling on the road with his cousin, Al-Fadl ibn Abbas, a woman stopped him to ask him a question. The woman was very beautiful, and Al-Fadl couldn’t help but stare at her.”*

It seems I’m a bit late to the party in the comments here, but as an ethnic Bohem Romani I’ll toss out a couple things that my family has noticed over the years in the US and overseas. This isn’t in an effort to “correct” Rendard about anything, just a quick info dump since it seems most folks aren’t sure what is…

“You keep bringing that up as though it’s an issue. There is no issue about people being able to see in front of her the article mentions that she sits in the back row. The wall isn’t complaining about seeing the board.”

I’m presenting the only hypothetical in which this child’s hair would be a problem within my…