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Spain\u2019s Royal Language Academy fails to remove derogatory definition of \u2018gypsies\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n The derogatory definition of gypsies as one \u201cwho deceives or maneuvers to cheat\u201d continues\u00a0to appear in the online dictionary of the Spanish Royal Language Academy. However, after\u00a0protests by the Gypsy State People\u2019s Council, the Academy has now included a modification\u00a0specifying that the term is offensive or discriminatory.<\/p>\n Spain has around 750,000 Roma people out of its total population of 47million. Although\u00a0Roma people form an important part of Spanish society and culture, they continue to be\u00a0discriminated in areas such as housing, education and jobs.<\/p>\n Soraya Post, Co-president of ARDI and Chair of ARDI\u2019s Anti-Roma racism\/Anti-Gypsyism\u00a0Working Group, commented: \u201cI remain concerned by the Academy’s decision not to remove\u00a0the definition from its dictionary. Its continued presence hinders efforts to tackle\u00a0discrimination against Roma people and negative stereotyping.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oct_exclude_from_cache":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[49,47],"class_list":["post-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-anti-gypsyism","tag-anti-roma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5723,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions\/5723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ardi-ep.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}