Brits don't like ginger?

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I was just reading the Sunday paper, and there was an article in there about British peoples dislike of red hair.

Even Prince Harry gets teased.

I'd never heard of this, is it true?

Red heads, or "gingers" as they're called said they've actually been spit at and discriminated against.

I guess women don't buy much red hair color at the chemists.

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Wha? Wha yoo on abou' then?

http://www.geocities.com/red_head_stranger66/index157.jpg

Tits the bleeding Scots wid der redhair we hates, not real Brits lake cus.

Joe(noi)Nation

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Oh, and perhaps the irish...

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yuh, them bastids too.

Joe(freaks of nature, they are.)Nation

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I don't know about redheads, but I think they like ginger beer (whatever that is).

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When Mrs. Walter or/and I are in the UK (which happens at least twice per year), we "import" quite a few various ginger products - you get the best choices there.

And for August 26, the National Botanic Garden of Wales has offered red-heads free entry to a festival celebrating the ginger plant, the "Ginger Family Festival".
(That's in Carmarthenshire, west Wales, and "wearers of comedy ginger wigs will not qualify".)

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Ok guys...here's the story I read...

Gingers in Britain

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Chai wrote:

Ok guys...here's the story I read...

Gingers in Britain

Well, what do you think a website called "www.redandproudatcom" deals with :wink:
But actually, it's more a "tabloid war", between mainly 'The Sun' and "The Mail".

(The Sun started on June 30 with a report
GLAMOUR girl JORDAN has been shocked to discover her new daughter has ginger hair.

New arrival PRINCESS TIAAMII, whose name is taken from the names of father PETER ANDRE's mother THEA and Jordan's mother AMY, has a healthy head of strawberry blonde locks.

Jordan, real name KATIE PRICE, revealed in OK! Magazine: "She looks really different from both the other kids - she's got fair, gingery hair and really blue eyes.

contered later by the Mail

Who says you can't be ginger and gorgeous?

This all happened, after the "mystery" of the "white shark" onm Cornwall's coast was solved ...)

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While I have been living in England, I was a redhead several times.
Never felt discriminated against!

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There is 'something in the air' about redheads but didnt realise it was mostly in the UK.
I have a friend who is a redhead so cant say I hate them.

There is a fantastic comedy sketch by Catherine Tate about a home for Redheads.

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Bohne wrote:

While I have been living in England, I was a redhead several times.
Never felt discriminated against!

Most probably there've been different topics during the silly saison when you were there. :wink:

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

Chai wrote:
Ok guys...here's the story I read...

Gingers in Britain

Well, what do you think a website called "www.redandproudatcom" deals with :wink:
But actually, it's more a "tabloid war", between mainly 'The Sun' and "The Mail".

Actually Walter, I read the story in the Wall Street Journal section of the Sunday paper, I don't know where they got it from.

But, I figured if it was in the WSJ, it must have something going for it.

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I was referring to the source you gave earlier and what was said in that story.

The Wall Street Journal (Europe) isn't published here in Saturday's/Sunday's, and as far as I looked through last week's issues, it wasn't in them. So I can't commend on it.

The story about the Newcastle family had been published in early June by the BBC

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There's a fairly long tradition of discrimination against/dislike/distrust of people with red hair.

http://www.sacred-texts.com/wmn/fow/fow14.htm

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art28451.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair

and

Quote:

Red-haired persons are supposed to be very passionate and traitorous; hence, perhaps, the red hair attributed to Judas in early Christian art

http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=93&letter=H

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This is funny! I didn't know that in the US red hair was accepted! I like red hair, but generally people take the piss, especially in a school enviroment.
My best friend has red hair and I remember in senior school she was called tons of things, Ginger pubes, Ginger (with hard G's) and stupid comments like, 'Oh look, your heads on fire' etc etc.

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Here, red headed women have the stereotype of sexiness.

What do you think is the origin of the negative feeling there PQ?

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Brits have hair? I've never been able to get past their teeth.

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Here is Eric's take on it....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JqrQMWcOOSs

RH

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Chai, I have no idea.
that would be interesting to find out.

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I had a schoolmate with red hair and she was ridiculed quite a bit. Fair skin,
freckles and fire red hair. It wasn't the pretty kind, like Ginger wore (out of the bottle, I'm sure).

So, these things happen(ed) also with us Krauts in Germany.

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