• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
      2·
      8 months ago

      What’s the current popular term for those people? I thought gypsies was what they still went by.

      • candyman337
        43·
        8 months ago

        Gypsy had always been a derogatory term for Romanian Romani people

        • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip
          41·
          8 months ago

          They aren’t Romanians just because that sounds similar ffs. The European sinti and roma populations are actually descended from certain regions in India.

          • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
            3·
            8 months ago

            You’re right! From wikipedia:

            The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani, colloquially known as the Roma, are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Romani originated in the Indian subcontinent; in particular, the region of present-day Rajasthan.