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Originally Posted by armand.kay
You ameriacans make them sound glamorus which ther not !
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Like Wildcat mentioned - it was an image/term associated or synonymous to being a Hippie or an 'individualist' and all that. Popular in hippie era rock music. In a way also appealing to 'conservative' or traditional 'capitalist' type Americans as colonizing and uprooting and traveling and 'settling the west' is part of their history.
But they don't really have many actual gypsies so their reference is more like a kind of sentimental historical sense.
They don't really know they are obnoxious, tacky, loud pick-pockets and users that destroy neighbourhood real estate values and drain people of their money. Americans have their own versions thanks.