... to the core of labels and stereotyping. While it refers to Gypsy life one could easily substitute any label relating to any minority group. "When I am asked if I am a 'Real Gypsy' my answer is this: I am flesh and blood, I feel pain, I feel joy, I love, I hate, cut me I bleed, I am a real human being living in today's world who happens to be a Gypsy. Not some stereotype that fits misinformed people's ideas of what a Gypsy should be. " The advent of the social model of disability and legislation such as the Disability Discrimination Act (1995) has attempted to redress the balance through promotion of the idea that many of the difficulties facing people with disabilities are imposed by society and are in fact a result of [unlawful] discrimination: "the reality of the lives of disabled people is that they are often barred ...

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