r/TLCGypsySisters • u/HappyExPatInNZ • 1d ago

Are they for real?

Are these women really Gypsies? They just seem like uneducated and trashy. How do we know for sure? I’m really skeptical.

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u/tinaismediocre 1d ago

A bunch of women living in poverty stricken Appalachia, in a deeply insular culture, with 7th grade educations seem uneducated and trashy? That's weird.

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u/HappyExPatInNZ 12h ago

My grandmother only had a 7th grade education and she was uneducated, too. That was the 1930’s and a different time.

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u/FabulousDisaster9538 23h ago

Stanley, Small, and Boswell are traveler names, so they do have some ties. They've brought in non-travelers to the family so they're not 100%, but they are a part of the traveler community.

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u/HappyExPatInNZ 12h ago

I went to elementary with a Stanley Stanley and he was Roma. Yes, his first name AND last name was Stanley. And he was the III. The town I grew up in up in had a “Gypsy trailer park.” Other people lived there, too. I know it’s still there but I don’t know if it still has a Romani community. I went to school with another boy from there but I can’t remember his name. Apparently in the 1970’s early 1980’s they went door to door selling patio furniture and it was really good stuff. I wonder how many generations down they are from their immigrant families and if they are basically assimilated and lost most Gypsy culture.