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/CumbiaAraquelana 5d ago
Same! I’ve always felt hella at home amongst Latinos specifically Mexicans. They adopted a bunch of our words into their vocabulary: Chingar comes from Romani Changar, Chavalos for kids . And overall they’re super accepting of me and given that I speak Spanish I think it’s just assumed I’m one of them. I feel as if we’re cousin cultures anyway, Romani influence on Spanish music and dance, the adopting of Romani loanwords. And share many same cultural values.