Prejudice against travellers is not racist because travellers are not a race ("A journey out of prejudice", The Argus, February 5). Prejudice arises from dislike of

a lifestyle that takes without giving anything back.

I would like to know why travellers think they are entitled to services which are paid for by the settled communities on which they dump themselves. Clean drinking water, sewage disposal, refuse collection, education and health care don't happen spontaneously but are the result of people working.

In effect, the travelling community lives on the backs of working people who have to pay for the upkeep of the sites they stay on as well as for clearing up the mess and damage they all too often leave behind them.

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