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Discrimination against people with red hair may be a factor of its relative rareness, as well as cultural attitudes and collective mythology. [11] Judas Iscariot may have had red hair, [citation needed] and some Indo European folklore presents that people with red hair are vampires or transform into vampires after death. [11]
Discrimination based on hair texture, also known as textureism, is a form of social injustice, where afro-textured hair or coarse hair types, and their associated hair styles, are viewed negatively, often perceived as "unprofessional", "unattractive", or "unclean".
While some countries make classifications based on broad ancestry groups or characteristics such as skin color (e.g., the white ethnic category in the United States and some other countries), other countries use various ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or religious factors for classification. Ethnic groups may be subdivided into subgroups, which ...
[47] The Mahabhashya, Ṛgveda, and Gopatha Brahmana contain, according to Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, references to Brahmins with "white skins and red or yellow hair." [ 48 ] Per David Lorenzen , there are some references in later Vedic literature that suggest the Brahmin and Vaishya castes are referred to as "white or fair".
Red hair, also known as ginger hair, is a human hair color found in 2–6% of people of Northern or Northwestern European ancestry and lesser frequency in other populations. It is most common in individuals homozygous for a recessive allele on chromosome 16 that produces an altered version of the MC1R protein.
A Meeting of Japan, China and the West (Shiba Kōkan, late 18th century); the "Westerner" is depicted with red hair. Ang mo or ang moh (Chinese: 紅毛; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: âng-mô͘ / âng-mn̂g) is a descriptor used to refer to white people. It is used mainly in Malaysia and Singapore, and sometimes in Thailand and Taiwan.
Arophobia; Acephobia; Adultism; Anti-albinism; Anti-autism; Anti-homelessness; Anti-drug addicts; Anti-intellectualism; Anti-intersex; Anti-left handedness; Anti-Masonry
The area of present-day Morocco has been thought to have been inhabited since Paleolithic times, sometime between 90,000 and 190,000 BC, but that is no longer the case after the discovery of a 300,000 years Homo sapiens, and instead, it is now suggested that it has been inhabited since primordial times by humans by the same evidence. [5]