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To: David Hunter
"by posting the addresses of these people on the internet"

They probably don't have addresses. Isn't 'travelers' a politically correct name for gypsies?

15 posted on 07/31/2003 1:54:24 PM PDT by MEGoody
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To: MEGoody
They probably don't have addresses. Isn't 'travelers' a politically correct name for gypsies?

Actually they live in very nice house in their own communities. The trouble with posting addresses is that the Travelers often have the exact same names. In a traveler town half of the men will be officially named John Murphy. They have private names that they use among themselves to differenciate between several hundred men named Murphy.
19 posted on 07/31/2003 2:02:12 PM PDT by redheadtoo
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To: MEGoody
Gypsies is an un-PC term for Romani people. Romani people are believed to have moved to Europe from India about 1000 years ago. Travellers is the standard name for nomadic irish groups. They share no common history with Gypsies. Words like "Tinkers" and "Knackers" have connotations like the N-word does in the United States. Both are used widely in Ireland. Travellers are a sizable chunk of Ireland's Population - maybe 3% or 4%. They have a reputation - mostly fairly earned - for fighting and thievery - however there are good and bad amoung the travellers too.
21 posted on 07/31/2003 2:07:27 PM PDT by Murtyo
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