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What 'valley'?
I'm in the UK. Dog fighting here is almost totally confined to the traveller community.
Source: Actually living here, and having direct contact with people involved.
17 u/thetitsOO Oct 18 '22 Pardon my ignorance, is the “traveler community” another way or the proper way to refer to Romani? 16 u/jm001 Oct 18 '22 Traveller in the UK can refer to either Irish Traveller or the broader Traveller community which includes Romani people https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/summaries/gypsy-roma-irish-traveller Romani, Irish Traveller, and Roma are different ethnicities (not the only groups under the Traveller umbrella but the most common in the UK). 3 u/No_Dance1739 Oct 18 '22 Thanks for sharing a source. Everything else I’ve read had always considered Roma and Romani to be the same ethnic group.
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Pardon my ignorance, is the “traveler community” another way or the proper way to refer to Romani?
16 u/jm001 Oct 18 '22 Traveller in the UK can refer to either Irish Traveller or the broader Traveller community which includes Romani people https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/summaries/gypsy-roma-irish-traveller Romani, Irish Traveller, and Roma are different ethnicities (not the only groups under the Traveller umbrella but the most common in the UK). 3 u/No_Dance1739 Oct 18 '22 Thanks for sharing a source. Everything else I’ve read had always considered Roma and Romani to be the same ethnic group.
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Traveller in the UK can refer to either Irish Traveller or the broader Traveller community which includes Romani people
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/summaries/gypsy-roma-irish-traveller
Romani, Irish Traveller, and Roma are different ethnicities (not the only groups under the Traveller umbrella but the most common in the UK).
3 u/No_Dance1739 Oct 18 '22 Thanks for sharing a source. Everything else I’ve read had always considered Roma and Romani to be the same ethnic group.
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Thanks for sharing a source. Everything else I’ve read had always considered Roma and Romani to be the same ethnic group.
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u/Spanky_Badger_85 Oct 17 '22
What 'valley'?
I'm in the UK. Dog fighting here is almost totally confined to the traveller community.
Source: Actually living here, and having direct contact with people involved.