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I have been misquoted slightly
Not in any meaningful respect. You said "Travellers are a minority ethnic group." You said you'd have written "Travellers are a minority ethnic community." if you had taken the time to type the longer word. Neither proposition is true.
Travellers come from several ethnic groups, some of which might be minorities with respect to the general population. The ethnic communities of Roma people include some travellers and some sedentary people.
Travellers are a minority ethnic community - this is the appropriate terminology.
No they aren't, and no it isn't. If you insist on lumping all travellers together, you include several communities, comprised of several ethnicities. Some of the ethnicities found inside the set of travellers are minority ones, but the set of travellers doesn't include all, or even most, of the members of the minority ethnic sets which intersect with the travellers set.
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Travellers are a minority ethnic community
Why? People in the travelling 'community' come from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, so how are they all collectively all a single ethnic minority? They may share a lifestyle which has certain common features, but that doesn't make them a distinct ethnic group.
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The discussion relates to the actual language used. Travellers are a minority ethnic community - this is the appropriate terminology. There are many minority ethnic communities. I have explained the Romany Gypsy term - it is appropriate to call them Gypsies. It is not appropriate to call travellers that term.
I have been misquoted slightly - which is unusual when it is in type in front of you. I haven’t my glasses on but I did not use the term ‘traveller community’. The term is traveller.