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Tigan? Laugh We say "cigan". Your name for them makes them sound like tigers.
actually the spelling in Romanian is not tigan but țigan, ț is pronounced like tz .
http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C8%9Aigani . just like the Italians are calling them zingari, the germans are calling them Zigeuner, they are also called gitani, gitanos in like Spanish or Italian, so for the EU to come and say "we're giving you a fine of 7000 euros if you call them what you've always called them and other countries are calling them", that's absolute politically correct bullshit. the amount of the fine is also absolutely ridiculous, a Romanian earns 7000 euro in 2 years of work, this fine is an absolute joke made by people that never leave their Brussels office.
10 years from now, the gypsies will again have turned rrom or Roma or Romani into despised words that still point at them gypsies and then we'll be fined for calling them that. they'll think of some new word they want to be called, the problem is not with the word, it's with the people the word describes.
and unfortunately for us Romanians, there's another confusion, in Romanian the translation for Romanians is "români", which on the internet we write "romani" with the English keyboard but inspite of the coincidence, these words have nothing to do with the Romani or rromani names of the gypsy tribes (just like the gypsy Roma has nothing to do with the Italian capital Roma). our name comes from the Romans, while their name comes from their Indian gypsy tribes. the unfortunate similarity obviously creates confusion and mainly Italians seem to confuse Romanians with gypsies (or some pretend to confuse us just because they fear losing their jobs to Romanian immigrants that are willing to work for less money than they are).
Romanian gypsies claim to be Romanians abroad particularly when they commit crimes, to hide being gypsies, but in fact in their IDs it's specified that they have Romanian citizenship but gypsy ethnicity while us Romanians have both Romanian citizenship and Romanian ethnicity, even in our IDs
@Agaysta - as for attractive gypsy women, I can tell you that here even if a gypsy woman is phisically attractive, we'll still stay away from her. They are associated with being dirty, loud, uneducated, crass, pickpocketing, possibly prostitutes, they have gypsy families with even dangerous family members besides uneducated. For us Romanians it would be actually embarrasing to be seen with gypsy women, so Romanians and gypsies don't mingle. We're separate, Romanians mate and are friends with Romanians while gypsies mate and are friends with other gypsies. it's as if like the gypsies are permanently tourists around here, they're not integrated even after 1000 years.
only by mistake I have hooked up with a gypsy woman once at night, her hair was dyed blonde and I didn't realize she was gypsy, but she was alright. I only realized she had been gypsy when I looked at the flash photos I took with her. it is possible that I've missed out on civilized clean gypsy women but generally I opted to not risk, gypsies have a bad reputation even if they're hot women, I usually just watch my pockets when I see gypsies around.