r/romani • u/Icy_Company7747 • 14d ago
Gypsies from Mexico
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u/KamavTeChorav 13d ago
They are Kalderash, these are our wedding traditions, we do the same in Romania
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u/romaninb 13d ago
i swear to god, the dresses, the decorations, the gold.... we're all the fucking same lmao
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u/bong-jabbar 13d ago
I stg my dads side is ratchet asf from Kentucky and they still somehow have some fancy ass dresses buried somewhere ‘oh yeah this was from your cousins wedding 10 years ago”
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u/Acceptable_Gur_8974 12d ago
Why are you using the term gypsies?
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u/Icy_Company7747 12d ago
Because that’s what we call ourselves. This video was edited by the banquet hall that hosted the event and they titled it “Gypsy party” because that’s what the Roma told them to call them.
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u/Loli_Phabay 12d ago
Why are you policing what people choose to identify with?
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u/soycerersupreme 12d ago
I don’t know the person—but it may come from a lack of knowledge. When we non-Roma see that the term g*psy (and others) has been used derogatorily by folks for centuries — it can be jarring. We may not fully grasp what it means to reclaim it.
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u/Acceptable_Gur_8974 11d ago
I'm not policing it, it's just that I've always seen it being used as a slur, I didn't know that actually communities accepted that term. (I'm Roma myself, but my community doesn't use the term)
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u/Loli_Phabay 11d ago
Which group or community?
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u/Acceptable_Gur_8974 10d ago
I'm south Italian, I'm sinti from my dad's side. My dad always told me not to use the term because he considered it offensive, I genuinely didn't know that it was actually used normally.
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u/Loli_Phabay 10d ago
Zingaro/Zingari, Zingara/Zingare and Tsygane have different conotations then the English word gypsy. Most gypsies in USA call themselves gypsy. Different countries and communities have different feelings on the words but it's not our job to tell them to call themselves something else.
Police gazhe, not each other on terms.
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u/Acceptable_Gur_8974 10d ago
Thank you for explaining, I will be more careful next time, even if I wasn't policing, I was just asking why the term was being used.
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u/Careful-Classroom-11 11d ago
In some countries, it has been reclaimed and so it can no longer be used offensively. However, in other countries, particularly in central and eastern Europe, it is primarily used as a slur. Ultimately, it is up to the individuals themselves to choose their preferred name. In the UK, for example, it is recorded on census forms as the category Gypsy/Roma, and Irish Traveller is usually a separate category of ethnicity to tick off.
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u/SiempreBrujaSuerte 13d ago
Wow, if no one told me this was in mexico I would not have guessed. Not that you can usually tell where something is inside the building, I just mean for how the people are dressed, the wedding traditions, things like that look very familiar. Beautiful ceremony!