Madine, who designs and constructs elaborate gowns for Traveller and Roma weddings and communions, admits to having been skeptical of the communities and their fashion choices when she first encountered them—implying, of course, that it is acceptable for the audience to feel the same way.
They want to keep it as pure as possible. But a quick Google search will reveal that many in the Traveller and Roma communities were outraged by these aspects of the show when it initially aired in Britain. What, then, to make of this series debuting on U.
You are using an outdated browser. Sometimes they want other things out of life. Moreover, my sister trained to be a hairdresser, my aunty went to university and is now a social worker and some of my cousins completed apprenticeships, thus clearly dropping out of education is not a prerequisite of living in a trailer.
I'm actually glad we're talking about this point, because those who watch the show are constantly shocked by how much money the Gypsy folk seem to have.
And then they pay even more for the actual party. While this may be the case for some Gypsies there's clearly enough for a show , many Gypsies aren't so financially blessed. The New Republic reported that "Today, [Roma] tend to live in dire poverty, often in shantytowns outside major cities in Central and Eastern Europe.
I have to admit, although this show is dramatic AF and has a lot of issues with authenticity, it's always fascinating to see the kinds of wedding gowns these Gypsy women want. I swear, every single bride walks into Sondra Celli's office and says they want the biggest and baddest dress Sondra has ever created before.
Some are made from seashells, others are made out of real flowers, and most of them have SO many layers that the bride can't even sit-down or dance. Now, call me crazy, but wouldn't you want to move freely on your wedding day? Wouldn't you want to take a seat whenever you wanted? I guess the girls on the show don't, but many Gypsies in real life agree with me. Pip, the anonymous Gypsy, stated "I've been to many Gypsy and Traveller weddings, but I'm yet to attend a wedding where the bride's dress weighs more than my whole family.
Since I was just talking about Gypsy women and their wedding dresses, it's time to talk about the ultimate and incredibly talented dress designer, Miss Sondra Celli. In fact, I'm fairly certain she has some sort of deal with TLC to be the sole designer of the gowns featured.
And while most of the dresses she creates are However, it's interesting that these traveling families don't go to someone in their own culture to design their dresses. Maybe someone who is more affordable. Well, on the show these women might visit Sondra, but in real life, there are plenty of locals who can do a fine damn job, too.
Okay, now let's get back to how these "happily ever after" moments seem oddly romantic, but the real world says otherwise. Like all cultures, marriages differ. While the TLC show leads us to believe that these trashy 16 year olds are ready for adulthood, parenting, and marriage, their actual age says otherwise. The Guardian noted how high abuse is in these Gypsy cultures, making these "happily ever after" scenes nothing but false advertisements.
Why would TLC or the British version ever pass this ad as positive? It's embarrassing and totally ignorant. The women pictured aren't women at all — they're young girls, made out to be older and looking for attention.
It's sad, really. And it's because of ads like this that there has been a dark shadow over the Gypsy culture as a whole. One woman—a mother of six—actually told The Guardia n that once people at school found out her children were Gypsies, they were treated differently. They won't let our kids mix with theirs because they say we stink and don't talk properly. Settled kids won't even play sports with ours in case they touch them.
To add to this mother's claims, you could do a popular Twitter or Tumblr search to see everyone else's thoughts on the show and their culture in general. Word to the curious: it's not good. It's not good at all. Now, I consider myself a very open minded person. However, even I was appalled by some of the behavior I saw on this show. Angry residents at Thursday's meeting said the newcomers throw trash around, park their cars in yards, disobey traffic rules, and are disruptive in markets.
Others said that they've seen Romanians killing chickens and children defecating in public. Although town officials were apparently unprepared for the immigrants' arrival in their small community, much of the friction appeared to be of the kind that might involve the sudden appearance of a nomadic people with ancient customs to the American Midwest.
The Post-Gazette reported that "there have been no instances of violence or aggression, and the immigrants involved in minor infractions have been duly cited and paid their fines. Another article in the Post-Gazette described the interactions of a local store clerk with her new Roma customers:.
She said the children are "super sweet" and that Roma are learning local customs. For example, at first they kept using the back door of the store because they couldn't read "emergency exit only," she said. Once a sign was put up in their Romani language, "nobody's touched it since. The article also noted that the Roma population in California "temporarily swelled when Roma from other states gathered to mourn the brother of a new resident here who was killed in an accident in Romania.
Right-leaning media outlets have neglected such details, instead engaging in baroque displays of antiziganism, as prejudice against the Roma is called.
Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group, cites news reports that seem to exaggerate complaints about the Roma, particularly in their headlines:. Breitbart News: "Pennsylvania residents protest Romanian immigrants 'defecating and killing chickens' in public.
No one went further than Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who as usual engaged in the weaving of complex fantasies which seemed to both delight and disgust him. Media Matters provided a transcript of his extended riff on the issue:. Your kid gets kidnapped out of your backyard, big kidnappings all over Europe, and they find em with the gypsies, and even liberal groups just say "Let em have your kid now, it's part of their" — it was in Italy, they actually find them with kids and let them keep em.
It's okay, they only get probation.
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