Who doesn't love the idea of the gypsy, wild, unconventional, mystical, magical, musical, intuitive... but then I met a Romani scholar, "gypsy" by birth (there is no other way; one cannot become a gypsy by marrying into it). She opened my eyes to the stereotyping; I pointed it out in a fiction workshop, years ago; everyone suddenly was "sick of political correctness" - that in itself was an eye opener. I'm not chastising writers who love the mystique of the Romani, but I feel compelled to call attention to their situation. https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/gypsy
"... the Romani people are an oppressed ethnic minority whose diasporic roots date back to 10th-century India and are currently in the midst of a centuries-long human rights crisis—one that is, in part, perpetuated by the stereotypes of the Gypsy.*