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Re: Your Opinion On The Macedonian Issue
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Originally Posted by Awar
First of all, nobody mixed with Gypsies on a large scale, they're a relatively closed group. Second, the main divider between ethnicities in the Balkans was religion,
and even if it wasn't, Balkanoids are genetically speaking nearly all the same, from both male and female lineages.
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Apart from being shunned by most of the communities they live in the Gypsies' own lifestyle and traditions don't let them marry outside their group anyway. For one thing they still more or less live semi-nomadically in many areas and most of them (at least in Eastern Thrace) don't even hold a citizenship. They've never been a powerful or influential group in the past either so I don't see the point of anyone outside their community intermarrying with them. It really is quite rare.
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