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Pikey (/ ˈ p aɪ k iː /; also spelled pikie, pykie) [1] [2] is an ethnic slur referring to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people. It is used mainly in the United Kingdom and in Ireland to refer to people who belong to groups which had a traditional travelling lifestyle .
This suggests a confusion between "Gypsy Rose Lee" the stripper (not associated with gypsies or fortune-telling) and "Gypsy Lee" an actual fortune-teller at the time – see for example . Manytexts 03:26, 26 December 2010 (UTC) I haven't seen the cited source but I assume it's cited correctly. This might be confusion on the part of the author ...
Prejudice against Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people is common in the UK, and Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people report that they are victims of high levels of hate crime. [ 44 ] A 2018 Equality and Human Rights Commission report found that 44% of British people expressed openly negative opinions about GRT people, this was the highest level of ...
The self reported figure for collective Gypsy/Traveller populations were 63,193 [64] but estimates of Irish Travellers living in Great Britain range are about 15,000 [65] as part of a total estimation of over 300,000 Romani and other Traveller groups in the UK. [66]
Fish Tank (2009) - an Irish Traveller camp is one of the main sites of the film and the male lead, played by Michael Fassbender, is implied to be an Irish Traveller. King of the Travellers (2013) - In the Travelling community, a young man must put his past behind him and settle a long running feud between two families so he can be with the love ...
Romanichal residing in England, Scotland, and Wales are part of the Gypsy (Romani), Roma, and Traveller community. [2] Genetic, cultural and linguistic findings indicate that the Romani people can trace their origins to Northern India. [3] [4] [5]
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Domari was once thought to be a "sister language" of Romani, the two languages having split after the departure from the Indian subcontinent—but later research suggests that the differences between them are significant enough to treat them as two separate languages within the central zone group of languages. The Dom and the Rom, therefore ...