White People Dreads!
Quick thought about white people with dread locks:
I think it’s culturally ignorant and insensitive for a white person to deliberately lock their hair. It’s like when Lana Del Rey wore that head dress… It’s called “Cultural Appropriation”. It truly is just plain offensive. Also, the argument that the Nordic tribes had dread locks is complete bullshit. The vikings were incredibly clean people in nearly every way. Very efficient. So efficient, in fact, that they made hair combs out of wood. Hair combs to brush their hair out. To keep it from getting matted. They even cut and bleached their hair.
I’m not saying that black people are gross for locking their hair, I’m just pointing out that dread locks was never part of any “white person” culture. Unless of course you count hipster assholes as a “culture”.
With that being said, I think it’s inappropriate for a black person to wear dread locks just because they like the style of it. That’s still cultural appropriation. It has nothing to do with the color of your skin. It has everything to do with your religion, family, way of life…culture. It’s also racist to tell a white person that they can’t wear dreads just because they’re white and that only black people should be allowed to wear them.
The only two ways someone could get away with dread locks without being culturally insensitive is:
1) They’re doing it out of appreciation of that culture or want to become part of that culture (Which most likely could not include women, I think)
2)They’re just being lazy. They don’t want to go through the hassle of brushing, cleaning or even cutting their hair so they just let it get matted until it looks like dreads. And that’s just nasty.
TL;DR: If you’re dreading your hair because you think it looks cool, you’re an asshole.
I think it’s culturally ignorant and insensitive for a white person to deliberately lock their hair. It’s like when Lana Del Rey wore that head dress… It’s called “Cultural Appropriation”. It truly is just plain offensive. Also, the argument that the Nordic tribes had dread locks is complete bullshit. The vikings were incredibly clean people in nearly every way. Very efficient. So efficient, in fact, that they made hair combs out of wood. Hair combs to brush their hair out. To keep it from getting matted. They even cut and bleached their hair.
I’m not saying that black people are gross for locking their hair, I’m just pointing out that dread locks was never part of any “white person” culture. Unless of course you count hipster assholes as a “culture”.
With that being said, I think it’s inappropriate for a black person to wear dread locks just because they like the style of it. That’s still cultural appropriation. It has nothing to do with the color of your skin. It has everything to do with your religion, family, way of life…culture. It’s also racist to tell a white person that they can’t wear dreads just because they’re white and that only black people should be allowed to wear them.
The only two ways someone could get away with dread locks without being culturally insensitive is:
1) They’re doing it out of appreciation of that culture or want to become part of that culture (Which most likely could not include women, I think)
2)They’re just being lazy. They don’t want to go through the hassle of brushing, cleaning or even cutting their hair so they just let it get matted until it looks like dreads. And that’s just nasty.
TL;DR: If you’re dreading your hair because you think it looks cool, you’re an asshole.
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