So Fun...
...to watch. Love those travellers...stay strong and true to your heritage (PS...it wouldn't hurt to get everyone registered to vote and elect a traveller to Parliament).
Awesome
Utterly fascinating glimpse into a strange other world. The gowns and the diamonds are fun to see but the really interesting part is the gypsy culture.
Oddly fascinating yet absolutely infuriating...
This documentary by no means really reflects on the lives of true Roma Gypsies, but rather 'Irish Travellers', a distinct sort of gypsy that despite this documentary, is not a representative of the entire Gypsy culture.
As you can tell by the title, this documentary focuses a lot on weddings, though you also get frequent glimpses into other aspects of these people. It is intensely patriarchal - spousal abuse is more rife, and girls are made to drop out of school young (in their early to mid teens, often) to stay home and take care of the house and younger siblings. Yet they never say what happens with the mothers, where are the mothers while their elder daughters take care of the rest of the kids?
Wives are not allowed to work, since it is seen as shameful for a husband to have a wife with a job because it supposedly signifies that he cannot support his family. Ahh, male chauvinism and cowardice at its finest! So obviously, the mothers are not out working, which...
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