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:''Some Roma consider the term "Gypsy" pejorative. Yet, the catalogue to the Roma Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale insisted that '''Roma''' was too narrow a term, as it excluded groups such as Sintis, Romunglo, Beas, Gitanes and Manus<ref>[The Economist, ''Bottom of the heap'', June 19th 2008]</ref>.''
What kind of logic is to say that Roma is too narrow, because it does not include all so-called Gypsies? In the introduction I made, the word was presented as a "blanket term for various unrelated groups". In the introduction from above it is made a direct connection between Gypsies and Roma, then, in order to give legitimacy to Gypsy it is said that Roma does not encompass all the people named Gypsies. As if the term [[Firang]] would be justified because not all Europeans are French, after defining as Firang the French and more generally other Western people (paraphrasing the above introduction). And even in this case there is some cultural connection between the people named Firang, but under Gypsy umbrella one may find all kind of unrelated groups and individuals. The distinction between Roma and other Romani subgroups is true, but it should go [[Talk:Roma_people#Request_for_move|here]]. [[User:Desiphral|Desiphral-देसीफ्राल]] 07:16, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
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