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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
What race are travellers?
they are mostly irish are they not?
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i don't know the official demographic but i would assume so?
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Originally Posted by Livia
Irish travellers tend to devastate an area and leave a trail of filth and rubbish behind them, are above the law, don't pay tax, give a really bad name to real gypsies who are clean and law abiding... and yet they expect preferential treatment. And on top of all that, you have to be really polite when you refer to them or they may get offended.
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the trouble is that when you refer to 'travellers' or 'gypsies' as a collective term and call them pikeys you are also covering the decent travellers who are clean and go by the law in that stereotype which is unfair.
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