Stacey Dooley: Growing Up Gypsy

“Are they going to think that I am going to steal things from here?”

That is the question that Contelle remembers asking after starting a new job and asking whether or not to share his patrimony of Romany.

Chantelle, Bedfordshire 23, He says that she is proud of her background, but that she has sometimes been “nervous” for sharing it due to negative representations of his community in the media.

“When you watch movies, it’s always like,” Oh, these are gypsies, they are bad, “he explains.

Chantelle appears in the BBC documentary of Stacey Dooley Growing Up Gypsy, which follows three young Romaní women while sailing for everyday life.

The show occurs when friends, families and travelers of Charity (FFT), an organization that works to end discrimination against the Gypsy, Rome and Traveler (GRT) community, says that it regularly listens to the gathetic women of Romany Public Pressure to hide idina.

Ebony, 23 years old from Nottinghamshire, works as a aestheticist and remembers a client in a previous job, who did not know about heritage, telling that she wanted to park in a given area because there were gypsies living nearby.

“And he was sitting there, painting his nails, such as:” You know little, “he remembers thinking.

Romany gypsies are one of the three ethnic groups within the GRT community. Some in the community prefer to refer to them as travelers, while others prefer to use the term gypsy.

The presenter Dooley says she felt privileged to be invited to the community, but that being with women and their families has shown that “how sometimes you can feel the lack of lack.”

It is something that, as a Romany gypsy, I have had contradictory feelings.

Now 26 years old, I am incredible proud of my inheritance: it is one of the first things I will share about me and I have incredible memories of summers spent in the Cerezos garden where my family worked.

However, I didn’t always feel that way. At school, it was reluctant to tell people about my identity for fear of being called a derogatory name and when I requested the university, my parents would mark the GRT ethnic group in the entrance form in case the chans to enter.

I filled it anyway, and I have become safer when talking about my inheritance, but the doubt is still there and is shared by many in the community today.

“There is a lot of hatred and discrimination against travelers, and people have no job because they are travelers,” says Ebony, about why he has hidden inheritance in the past.

An FFT spokesman says that the preliminary governance of the GRT community “remains very widespread” and “too often does not question.”

And in 2021, a Yougov survey organized by the FFT suggested that 22% of the people surveyed would be uncomfortable using a gypsy or traveler.

However, Ebony also says that she had positive interactions with her employers when she shared heritage and loves where she is currently working.

Chantelle now likes to work as a content creator, with more than 400,000 followers on Tiktok, and it is more open to talk about their culture, explaining to people online really “interested” to learn more about heritage.

Its content includes answering the followers’ questions about their community and making traditional dishes, such as the bacon pudding, which learned to make his grandmother.

However, he still sees negative comments, and some even affirm that those who live in a house are not gypsy, what Chantelle says shows a misunderstanding or how their culture works.

“Go back to your generations and it’s in your blood,” she says.

Despite the comments, Chantelle continues to make videos and appreciate the heritage, explaining: “I know they speak to us badly and things like that, but I am proud of it.”

Meanwhile, Ebony hopes that people who see the documentary learn more about the GRT community and do not have so much prejudice towards them.

“I do not look at all those who are not of non -formulators as if you were a bad person,” he says, and adds that the community experiences that type of preliminary judice.

“That is what I would like people to open their eyes,” he adds.