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^ Nothing personal dude, but I really think the word 'Gypsy' needs to drop out of the English language. It's not correct for really any of the people it's used for. It's a cutesy abbreviated way to say 'Egyptian', when you look at the word, and none of the itinerant peoples who live on the fringes of European societies trace their origins to Egypt, really.
Just to clarify, are you talking about:
1) Rroma and other ethnic groups from other places, who've been wandering around Europe for centuries, OR
2) Lower class indigenous groups that have traveled and camped and wheeled and dealed their way around Europe for all of known history, (I think travellers is the proper term) OR
3) Recent migrant laborers from foreign countries, who are kind of itinerant by their nature?
I haven't spent really any significant time in W. Europe, but I never realized any of these groups were around in droves.
I've always wondered how the rich countries of both the Mediterranean and East Asia have managed such narrow inequality gaps. Taiwan had pretty much no easily visible poverty when I was there in the early part of the decade, nor did Japan a decade earlier.
Thailand didn't strike me as a place of glaring inequalities during the early 2000s. Yeah there was a sprinkling of rich businessmen and gangsters around everywhere you went, who liked to flaunt. But other than that, it seemed like a solidly lower-middle-class nation, of frugal people who had just enough to live decently. The standard of living difference compared to Taiwan reminded me of that between middle and working class America.
Just to clarify, are you talking about:
1) Rroma and other ethnic groups from other places, who've been wandering around Europe for centuries, OR
2) Lower class indigenous groups that have traveled and camped and wheeled and dealed their way around Europe for all of known history, (I think travellers is the proper term) OR
3) Recent migrant laborers from foreign countries, who are kind of itinerant by their nature?
I haven't spent really any significant time in W. Europe, but I never realized any of these groups were around in droves.
I've always wondered how the rich countries of both the Mediterranean and East Asia have managed such narrow inequality gaps. Taiwan had pretty much no easily visible poverty when I was there in the early part of the decade, nor did Japan a decade earlier.
Thailand didn't strike me as a place of glaring inequalities during the early 2000s. Yeah there was a sprinkling of rich businessmen and gangsters around everywhere you went, who liked to flaunt. But other than that, it seemed like a solidly lower-middle-class nation, of frugal people who had just enough to live decently. The standard of living difference compared to Taiwan reminded me of that between middle and working class America.
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