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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 2192019, member: 2844"]Exactly, very different. We also have Gypsies in the Netherlands, mostly Sinti and Roma. Their culture has a clear Asian origin, and many of them still look very NW Indian. They speak Romany, a language related to NW Indian languages. Romany is one of the officially recognized 'Dutch' languages.</p><p><br /></p><p>And we have 'Woonwagenbewoners', our Travellers, who are all of European origin, with a European culture. They speak Dutch. They are mostly descendants of fairground people and people who couldn't afford houses during the 1930s Depression. The first group are called 'Reizigers', the second 'Burgers'.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Dutch Travelling Peoples, the Sinti are the elite, then come the Roma, then the Reizigers, and the Burgers are last.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 2192019, member: 2844"]Exactly, very different. We also have Gypsies in the Netherlands, mostly Sinti and Roma. Their culture has a clear Asian origin, and many of them still look very NW Indian. They speak Romany, a language related to NW Indian languages. Romany is one of the officially recognized 'Dutch' languages. And we have 'Woonwagenbewoners', our Travellers, who are all of European origin, with a European culture. They speak Dutch. They are mostly descendants of fairground people and people who couldn't afford houses during the 1930s Depression. The first group are called 'Reizigers', the second 'Burgers'. In the Dutch Travelling Peoples, the Sinti are the elite, then come the Roma, then the Reizigers, and the Burgers are last.[/QUOTE]
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