Ever been ashamed to be a traveller

I have and i feel sad at that now. When i was younger, i was ashamed of me background, i never saw the good qualities of it, as parts of me family became settled and some not, didnt know where i was really, and when u r younger u wanna belong.aS i got older, i got more confidence about who i was n where i come from. perhaps me story is different to some on here as i mixed with both travellers and non travellers from an early life. but have u ever denied or been ashamed of being a traveller? just interested, no judgement

Never of my cultur but of some of its ppl. When ya hear of fueds broken pubs stealin gawken when some dnt need to refuge probs and all that its hard not 2 fel like ur being paintd with the same brush.

thats right, theres good n bad all groups of ppl

Ya. Thnk theres a part of us al that want to be liked. Iv changed tho. Well I still want to be liked (haha) but ths time for 'me'

nice one jmc

I have being. With so much goin on has anyon not being?

to me its frightening at the speed that travellers ways seem to be disapearing.

meaning, a lot of the positive things we brought to a place when stopping over is now not feasible or trdiditional services we provide r not needed now, this highlits to many ppl the negative side of travellers only. i hope this makes sense??

Totally feel the same! Some hav no place now while others are just forgotten. Whts evryone doing to change that?

i always been self emplyed. but where i am u cannot go calling i dont know if its illegal or not but plenty ppl have signs on the door saying no selling of no services and all that

most the travellers i know hide the fact they r travellers to get work, like havin a landline answered by a company instead of mobile only etc etc

ill always be on the road to certain degree

things r changin thats 4 sure but i dont know how we can turn this all around or where its heading, please god, we dont lose it all

Times have changed and we hav to chang to too survive. For the rest if its important to us we'l keep it :-)

hmmmm

well to me, all of its important, and i wanna keep all the ways goin but the powers that be seem determined to stop our way of life, and they seem to be success at it

Na some trads should go. Rememberd ya but left behind. The social rite for aman to ht his wife is acceptd as a old way. That should go. Its almost gone too.

do u honestly think someone would vote to keep a tradition of hitting their wife???

No curse not but u did say 'all'. I just usd that as an example of how our change isnt always a bad thing and in a way is helpin.

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I agree with Guiney, more ashamed of some of the ppl rather than the race as a whole

Anyone else got real life stories?