# The ZPG Zealot handshake thread party extravaganza **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 29, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zpg-zealot-handshake-thread-party-extravaganza/758713 "2016-06-29T16:14:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 385
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2016, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zpg-zealot-handshake-thread-party-extravaganza/758713/385 "2016-07-05T11:41:43Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Question for any Romany or those actually familiar with the Romany culture: Is there in fact such a sub-culture with the proscriptions/traditions which ZPG Zealot has described? Remember that one person does not constitute a sub-culture. Once again I feel compelled to point out that ZPG has expressly stated that this is not merely an aspect of Roma culture, but of all American cultural groups except rednecks. > [@ZPG Zealot: A troll too far](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zpg-zealot-a-troll-too-far/567621/83): > > Actually, it isn’t ingrained in many American cultural groups. I grew up in the old South where men only extended their hands first to hookers. Most of my families close non-Roma friends were orthodox Jews or Latino, none of them ever pawed at women, well hookers in bars maybe, but not women they respected. **In fact, the only American cultural group that I know of where sticking out a hand at a woman is accepptable is the lower working class sort of redneck culture where the people don’t know how to act like polite members of society.** Bolding mine. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-zpg-zealot-handshake-thread-party-extravaganza/758713)._