2006-08-25 19:30:13 · 3 answers · asked by Blah Blah Blah 4 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
no, thats not what I'm talking about. I read somewhere that they pull a lot of scams like one was on Disney World but they got caught.
2006-08-25 19:38:04 · update #1
In Ireland the Travelers are a group of people who live a nomadic life.
"Nomadism has been seen as the defining aspect of Irish Traveller identity. Traveller activist, Michael McDonagh, writes:
When Travellers speak of travelling, we mean something different from what country people [settled people] usually understand by it…. Country people travel to get from A to B. But for Travellers, the physical fact of moving is just one aspect of a nomadic mind-set that permeates every aspect of our lives. Nomadism entails a way of looking at the world, a different way of perceiving things, a different attitude to accommodation, to work and to life in general. (1994: 95)"
You can read about their lifestyle from their own website below.
In the US
In the 19th century, several extended families of Travelers migrated to the United States and now travel the country and work as carpenters, bricklayers, plasterers and plumbers in the North during spring and summer and settle in towns in the South during the winter. Some of them have been found to be involved with scams and cons which the second site outlines.
2006-08-26 05:54:47 · answer #1 · answered by alpha 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are of Irish descent. Groups of them "travel" around the country and live off their scams. They intermarry and have huge families. Girls are married off at very young ages.
2006-08-26 02:58:19 · answer #2 · answered by tamwagon 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
actually an insurance company
2006-08-26 02:35:39 · answer #3 · answered by metallhd62 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋