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Roma communities and nomadic Irish UK mediaregulyatoru appealed to Ofcom to complain to Channel 4, accusing him of biased coverage of their lives in the documentary series "My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding". On it informs The Guardian. Combining Sheltie (Irish Travellers) required by Channel 4 to give them airtime, so they can refute his unsightly image, which in their opinion, formed in 8.7 million viewers to the show. Roma (Gypsies), for their part, complained that they were in the movie almost was not paying attention, and as a result of the audience the impression that the nomadic population of Great Britain consists of shelties. However, according to British newspaper Gypsies The Travellers' Times, Shelties are only a tenth of British Travellers. Particular outrage at the sheltie called a story about the ritual of bride kidnapping. According to the complainants, Channel 4 is not enough clarified wider cultural context of ritual, and as a result of the audience the impression that this barbaric practice, coupled with violence against women. Representatives of the Channel 4 said that in their series were presented as a sheltie, and rum, and stressed that the show consisted mainly of stories themselves nomads. Also, representatives of the channel indicated that carefully avoided when describing the nomads of traditional ethnic stereotypes. The total number of communities Shelties in the UK is estimated from 15 to 30 thousand people, and most of the nomadic community (traditionally referred to as Gypsy – Roma) – 300 thousand. In 2011 the official population census of Great Britain for the first time takes care of these communities. In Ireland, according to official estimates, over 22 thousand sheltie, another 5-10 thousand – in the U.S.. Sheltie (name cognate with the word "Celt", self – Peyv) is often called "Irish pilgrims, although their Irish heritage is only one of the hypotheses. Language sheltie is Creole, that is arising as a result of mixing two languages – Irish and English. Culturally Shelties do not differ much from European Gypsies, who, according to the traditional version, are of Indian origin. Probably originally Sheltie represented communities of nomads and landless peasants, who mingled with the XVII century to the XIX century formed a new ethnic group.
