I'm settled traveller married to a non traveller AMA

[uhtredsonofuhtred]

Just that really 

@word Nothing makes you a traveller it's in your blood! The best way I can explain it is..like royalty they have a baby and their babies automatically royalty, we don't choose it it's just in are blood

Yes I think it's a woman's place to do that, altho I know a lot of men that do help out aswell, there's no right or wrong way

And yes I do believe girls should keep themselves for marriage

Also how did you feel when your dad assaulted your teacher?

Interesting that you compare yourselves to royalty .....

Do all travellers take great care of their appearance at all times? We were on holiday recently and saw a couple of traveller families having lunch. The women were dressed very elaboratly for lunch and so were the children. All big dresses on the girls, intricate plaits and ribbons etc.

I only ever dressed my dd like that for social events and thought how much hard work it would be not to mention expensive.

Growing up I was told that there is a big cultural difference between the ethnic groups - Romanies and the Irish traveller community, who used to be Tinkers ( mending pots and pans etc) . Do you think that is true ?

There is no sex education for 8 year olds in school though?

@Wordthe he deserved it

@Wordthe and not comparing just trying to make it simply for you to understand

I am also a traveller. It was not a good idea to make this thread, they always end up in a load of closed minded people being racist about travellers and then gets deleted.

How was your school repeatedly teaching you about sex education when you were 8?!

There are a few names for the language- 'cant' and 'romanous' are the main ones

@Frouby yes most travellers dress their kids up if their out/on holiday it's just how it is, some dress their kids up everyday like that, but then others don't it just depends on the person

@SirVixofVixHall their is a difference but it's not massive, they do some things differently

@Cauliflowersqueeze there was where I went

@Cauliflowersqueeze

There is some very basic education - names for body parts. Learning about the 'pants' song. My dd was learning that at 6.

@SirVixofVixHall I'd say there was a huge difference. Sorry to contradict you, OP

The teacher did not ‘deserve’ to be punched.

If the boys are allowed to have sex before marriage, I assume they are having sex with each other?

@pinky I married into Irish I didn't see much difference

@AtrociousCircumstance if a someone's told no and the keep doing it then yes they do deserve it, i was little my parents didn't want me watching it and this teachers kept doing it when told no, if that was sex that would be classed as rape, so yes he did deserve it

@AtrociousCircumstance they sleep with the non travellers

You are comparing education to rape? Wow.

Oh, so are non-traveller girls are seen as ‘lesser’?

Why is it ok for men to have sex before marriage but not women?

@uhtredsonofuhtred typically Irish travellers are much more keen to push their daughters into marriage as early as possible, English prefer them to wait slightly longer

shouldn't go against your wish! He knew it was against our beliefs but still continued to take me into the lessons.