Friday, April 13, 2012

I "knackers", anche detti "Irish Travellers". Ovvero gli zingari irlandesi.

"The term 'knacker' is sometimes used in Ireland to denote an Irish Traveller. In 1960, senior politician James Dillon explained the term to the Irish parliament as denoting 'the tough type of itinerant tinker'. The use of the word is considered pejorative. It is now more often used to refer to people of a perceived lower class or underclass, who are not Travellers, but who have accents, attitudes and a style of dressing redolent of anti-social behaviour, petty crime, poor public housing and low educational achievement levels" Source: Wikipedia Picture: http://trashhologram1.blogspot.com/2010_06_01_archive.html