Every single one of you who has used the word Gypsy to describe Tyson Fury need to open up your ears and educate yourselves!
Gypsy is a contraction of Gyptian, which is a contraction of Little Egyptian and is a British slang ethnic descriptor of Romani and Domari people, who are an entirely separate and different race and blood line with a different language and customs than Irish Travelers, which Tyson Fury proudly is.
There are some cultural overlaps such as when what type of education should begin and end, and age of marriage, but in the main there are considerably more differences between the race, some very substantial, and very opposing opinions and belief systems, which is the reason the majority of Irish Travelers and most Romani's don't live on the same places as each other. it tends to end badly quickly.
It's a low blow and deeply offensive, regardless of your opinions of the man, to muddy his ethnicity.
It's offensive to Rom's everywhere to have views that are acceptable to announce out loud in Irish Traveler culture, ascribed to Romani culture where it is not.
Many Romani may think and believe many things about Gaudja's that you wouldn't like, and are prejudiced and racist, etc, but it is against Romani culture to publicly announce them as aggressive racism and especially to or in front of Gaudje. Different cultural rules for Irish Travelers.
We're not a homogeneous lump!
Damien Le Bas is a Romany whose family have some Posh Rat blood and grew up 'settled' on sites, and sometimes in brick and had a very unusual childhood.
There's a lot of talk of ignorance on this thread and yet it seems a lot of you are equally ignorant lazy racists.
If you wouldn't do it to Black cultures, how come you think it's ok to do it to Nomadic cultures? Educate yourselves!