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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 .
Pikey is a name, bad or good, for a group of Roma people. If somebody wants to learn about who/what Pickey's are, it should redirect to someplace about Pickey, not a dictionary term. An example is Moonie redirects to the Unification Church. Most people knows the derogatory term Moonie, but most wouldn't know Unification Church.
The fact that Q188R is the sole mutant allele among the Travellers as compared to the non-Traveller group may be the result of a founder effect in the isolation of a small group of the Irish population from their peers as founders of the Traveller sub-population. This would favour the second, endogenous, hypothesis of Traveller origins."
Scottish Romani are the Romani people of Scotland. This includes Romanichal (locally also known as Border Gypsies) and Lowland Romani (Lowland Gypsies). [1]Scottish Travellers are non-Romani groups indigenous to Scotland who live or traditionally lived a nomadic lifestyle, including Scottish Highland Travellers, Scottish Lowland Travellers and Showmen (Funfair Travellers).
Hostility and discrimination against Romani people is still present in the UK. [26] [1] In 2008, it was reported that the Romani experienced a higher degree of racism than any other group in the United Kingdom, including asylum-seekers, and a Mori poll indicated that a third of UK residents admitted to being prejudiced against Romani. [26]
An ethnic out-group (also sometimes "outgroup" without hyphen) [1] is a group of people which does not belong to a particular ethnic group, religion or nationality. Many cultures have terms referring to all outsiders, but in practice this often becomes narrowed to the largest outsider group.
A study of 444 people representing three ethnic groups in North Macedonia found mtDNA haplogroups M5a1 and H7a1a were dominant in Romanies (13.7% and 10.3%, respectively). [191] Y-DNA composition of Muslim Roma from Šuto Orizari Municipality in North Macedonia, based on 57 samples: [190] Haplogroup H – 59.6%; Haplogroup E – 29.8% ...
Roma is the primary term used in political contexts to refer to the Romani people as a whole. [1] [2] Because all Roma use the word Romani as an adjective, Romani began to be used as an alternative noun for the entire ethnic group. [3] It is used by organizations such as the United Nations and the US Library of Congress. [4]