What's the difference between American gypsies and regular poor whites?

[Anonymous]

How are the self described gypsies/travelers of America actually gypsies? My understanding of gypsies were the tan/olive skinned eastern Europeans so how are those guys gypsies when they can blend in with the cast members of MTV's Buckwild?

[peace-love-couture]

Being a gypsie isn't about skin color, it's their ethnic background and lifestyle/culture(which happens to have negative stereotypes).

They're romani...

Although it's embarrassing for white trash overall(Honey Boo Boo then those gypsies on TLC), they aren't anglo. It's like comparing poor italians to poor anglos. Essentially they're "white" but from different cultures

Those gypsies on TLC are trailer park trash though. Supposedly they're 10x worse in the UK, which is probably why they're disliked...not condoning or supporting racism/discrimination towards them btw.

[aMuse]

I'm sure there are some Romani people that have emigrated to the USA, but I would think of a gypsy lifestyle to be more like what this guy is doing

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=7iOfbf2H-wg