depends

there are two types of gypsies in the UK - completely different and separate. Romanies, and Irish travellers

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Romanies clearly are an ethnic group - Irish travellers harder to define (how long does a close-knit community have to stay separate before you define them as that?)

More to the point though, defining either group as a 'human sub-species' - and the stuff that goes with that - is unsavoury stuff.

Posted By: Tricky Hawes, Sep 22, 21:09:55