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I'm a 27 year old gypsy guy. No this isn't a front or a lie. This is very real. No, we largely stopped living in caravans about 200 years ago, sold them, though some still uphold old traditions in the U.S. No I'm not irish. They call themselves gypsies over on the island, and in the UK, and they do travel but they have no ties to India, thus they are travellers, but not really gypsies.
I was born and raised in a small eastern european country where my people take up about 2-5% of the population. Due to gypsies largely getting by with tradesmanship
(no you fucking idiot you can't just rely soley on fucking stealing from the locals, sooner or later they'll run out of shit, you CAN'T live and prosper and continue to be an existing minority in a country despite WW2 decimating it, if ALL you did was steal for a living, god you fucking morons use your goddamn heads for a second)
like making pots, blacksmithing, farming, shoemaking, etc. after being forcibly naturalized in the country, we eventually started taking on jobs with more complexity. Today, gypsies (though rarely, because of racist glass ceilings) hold politically prestigious positions, though most of them have to bow their heads and lick the boots of our "glorious king" the PM of the country, figuratively and literally.
