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Either Black Country black sense of humour whizzed over the red-head's red head or financial advisor genuinely felt ginger hair was an affliction that you'd be glad not to have passed on to your child.
Wonder how they worked out the £150 as compensation?
Gingers will kick $$$$ out of anyone. Trust me I know
Red headed people , are thought to be beautiful in most countries of the world.In England .Its a very English thing to belittle people with red hair.Red heads are often associated with the Celtic nations Scotland ,Ireland and Wales.The dislike for red heads in England must have something to do with the many centuries of downtreading and colonising of our nearest neighbours.
These are racist comments.If these things were said against any other ethnic community there would be uproar.Just because red heads dont often complain about it ,doesnt make it right.
I agree with LL, there's a tendency to call things racist when basic rudeness is the cause. All this does is to dilute the use of the term when it really is appropriate.
I always found red head women attractive, especially when you discovered it was genuine.
Weren't you a ginge once upon a time?
Eh? I don't work for Halifax??
What I will say is that the paper must be pretty stuffed for news if they are reporting this. Also she's accepted the money so the complaint is closed so why she's harping on still is beyond me.
Just know you work for a bank, Halifax is (or was) a bank, 2+2=5.
HM Treasury?
My own personal standard would be that you shouldn't mock or treat differently because of a physical trait someone was born with. Thats would include race and gender, but hair colour would also come into it.
How about bespectacled people? Thin/fat people?
Well , a very small percentage of the worlds population have red hair.The vast majority come from the British isles and part of scandinavia.If you saw someone with red hair you know he doesnt come from africa , india china , other parts of asia, south america or most of europe.
40% OF IRISH PEOPLE AND 30% OF SCOTTISH PEOPLE CARRY THE RED HAIR GENE.
You could say pakistan isnt a race.but if you made a rude comment against them , about their hair or skin ,id hope that would be classed as racist.I would hope the mods pulled the people up who made fun or belittled them.
Red hair is an easy target.To belittle someone because of their hair colour is pathetic.They used to call black people names because they had curly hair,thankfully that has stopped .Because that was seen as racism.Well the same holds for people with red hair.There is no difference.Just that they are a silent minority.An easy target.
Apparently ginger people are more prone to deafness.
They also need more anaesthesia to put them to sleep and in a psychic study were proved to have 14% more intuition than the base level.
Greek mythology suggests they are evil and most European cultures throughout history have believed that they are witches.
The Egyptians believed they were so unlucky that they used to hold ginger burning ceremonies and in Italy, up until the 18th century it was illegal to marry a ginger.
I agree.So. beat a redhead day, should be treated the same as beat a pakistani day.Can you imagine the uproar.If neither are races.Why is it you can say something so wrong about are Scotish and Irish neigbours, but it is seen fit for openly be at the least nasty to someone with red hair.
As father of two very good looking red-heads (unbiased view), I actually don't like the use of "ginger", which is a shade of red and is generally used in a perjorative way. The percentage of red-heads is actually higher in Scotland than Ireland, but in both cases is not particularly high (from recollection I think it was 13 and 10% respectively, though even this figure looks a little high to me).
As GoldenHorseshoe says, I do not recall red-heads being picked on when I was at school in UK, but I have read that the anti-"ginger" thing dates back originally to anti-Irish sentiment during an earlier wave of immigration. More recently it seems to me to have been fanned for a bit of "fun" by (ironically enough) the "red-top" newspapers. Personally I find it incomprehensible and distasteful; it is not funny and is not unlike the sort of sneering or joking one sometimes gets at people with physical or mental disability, which is seriously reflective on the personality of the person doing doing the sneering.
That post was removed early this morning, but you have now chosen to repeat the idea.
There is a big difference about putting that post on here and me bringing to attentiion what would have happened if that was put. on this forum about any other group of people.