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Reply to "I get it, the word "gypsy" is now offensive. But please don't equate it with the "n word". "
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Gypsy just means a traveling people or a wanderer. [/b] I have seem the Roma gypsies in DC metro stations with the fake babies and all. I also saw a lot of problems with them in Italy and France when I lived there (homelessness, leaving trash everywhere and stealing). [/quote] How dare you those were not fake babies they were drugged babies[/quote] That's actually not true. "Gypsy" is a word that came from a mistaken impression of where the Roma/Sinti came from. Although many came to Europe via northern Africa, as an ethnic group they originated in Northern India. So, they migrated via what is now Egypt, and then Europeans started calling them Egyptians. That's where the gyp in gypsy comes from, and why they are called tsigani in most Slavic languages (from Egyptsia). [/quote]
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