Change the Offensive Definition of Gypsy from Dictionary.com
We, the undersigned, protest Dictionary.coms entry for the term Gypsy that defines a Gypsy as one of a vagabond race... living by theft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering (fourth entry down t... continue reading »
"I agree, thats a bit ignorrant and stereotypical, and applies to gypsies that lived in earlier times not gypsies of today! Im a gypsy, not a theif, not a vagabond...the proper definition of a gypsy is : a cunning or crafty person who has a nomadic, unconv"
"change it now!"
"I am a Celtic Wiccan and part of the Jewish Culture. People need to know the truth about these old religions. Christianity and Islam are taking over everything."
"Sociologist - France"
"Traveller (English, Irish and German). Great-Aunt Zola dukered on the Ocean Park Pier in the 20's, 30's, 40's ,50's & 60's under the name Madam Ray, she was fairly famous with the Hollywood crowd."
"There are many more accurate elements that define the Gypsy people; there is the preservation of culture, language ,family connections and an elusive and mystical existence that has found its away into literature and scholary references for generations..."
"I can only assume that whoever authorized the use of this definition is too young to have heard about the attempt during the Holocaust to annihilate the Roma people, or too poorly informed about the prejudice that still exists against this ethnic group in"
"disgraceful! Change this racist slur immediately"
