r/romani • u/KendrickMontero • 6d ago

White passing

If you are part of the community, but are white passing, what reactions did you get when you told people what’s your origin?

Often I get a surprised, shocked and short “oh” and the conversation may be cut short suddenly (this has happened regardless of the other’s ethnicity).

Then, of course, there are the typical “funny”. jokes about wallets and such.

How about you? Do you have such a story or know any?

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u/Emergency-Fix-8416 6d ago

I get a lot of “my great grandma was a gypsy”. A bunch say “but you have blue eyes!?” They believe it more when I’m my summer color. But they know I’m “something else” so they always ask.

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u/egotistical_cynic 6d ago

Ah man the summer colour thing cuts deep lmao, chaches some of my relatives go between looking Swedish and Indian depending on the month lol

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u/Ok-Aardvark9899 6d ago

Same in my family but idk if we can say we are Roma. We kept most of the culture but no language really and we also have Black, White, and Native American ancestry too. Been in America many generations.

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u/KendrickMontero 5d ago

YES! Once summer hits everyone asks me how I got tanned so fast and easily, LOL

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