Enjoy the show and the interesting contradictions

Um...obviously not all of them are con artists, thieves, etc. I'm sure some are, and they ruin the reputation of the rest because people always focus on the bad apples and ignore those that are decent, hardworking people which I'm sure is the majority of gypsies and travellers. People tend to forget that there are plenty of non-travellers who are scammers and predators too, otherwise nobody would have to lock their doors, protect their personal information, worry about online predators, etc., but I don't see anyone saying that ALL non-travellers are thieves just because SOME are. There are good and bad people in ANY culture. Unfortunately, it's the bad ones that usually get all the attention, especially when they are considered outside the "norm" and don't live the way most people live. That makes them easy targets for discrimination. As for the clothes, who really cares how they dress? Looking "slutty" is all a matter of perception. A hundred years ago people would have been beyond shocked to see the way we dress today. But we see it as completely normal because we're so used to it. Does that make us all sluts and prostitutes? No! In the traveler culture it's okay to dress more revealingly. Big deal. In fact, I happen to think those outfits are kind of pretty. And it obviously doesn't have a detrimental effect on their society because, when it comes down to it, they're not the ones that go sleeping around all the time like teenagers (and adults) in OUR society do. In fact, I think it really says something that they dress and dance that way and still keep their moral code. That doesn't happen much in our society. I would much rather have our teenagers dress revealingly but act conservatively, rather than the other way around (as is generally the norm for US). We could learn a thing or two from them if we stopped judging and looked beyond the surface at the real people underneath.