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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
What are "Romany" people? What do they have to do with gypsies and Romania? Are gypsies originally Romanian?

How can I learn about the history of gypsies better, with good statistics on them etc, in a way that's not via bbc three.
gpt
The Wikipedia article is a good place to start. They are definitely not from Romania, and the similarity in naming is purely a coincidence.

Gypsy is an exonym (name used by outsiders to describe a people) for the Roma people. It is a pejorative and you should not use it.