Talk:Romani people in Poland

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April 27, 2021: Added information to the Historical Backdrop section Coreou (talk) 07:09, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

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The word Cygan itself isn't pejorative, it's an informal term. The problem is that the ethnicity itself has a bad reputation in Poland, no matter what word you use to refer to them. Cygan and ocyganić don't really share an etymology, but ocyganić was newly created based on negative stereotypes of the ethnicity. Similar to the word Żyd. Because of the bad reputation of Jews in Poland, żyd became used as an insult, and many verbs based on stinginess were created like zżydzieć, zażydzać, pożydzić, żydzieć, żydzić and zażydzić. But that doesn't mean that the word Żyd itself is pejorative with a shared etymology with stigniness. It's just people being racist and making normal names look bad. The name Cygan was based on a Christian denomination after all. Lisqiii (talk) 07:26, 26 August 2023 (UTC)