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Are dreads on white people okay?
- Thread starter Wren Wolfe
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if you are white just like don't. like i probably have higher tolerance for hippie shit, probably higher than 99% of people here, I'm all for that spiritual mumbo jumbo, but goddamnit you just look like a goddamn fucking tool if you are white and have dreadlocks
also the results on this poll are pretty telling just how lame this place is, being all fauxwoke only when it wants to
also the results on this poll are pretty telling just how lame this place is, being all fauxwoke only when it wants to
I personally think it's wrong to tell people what to do with their own bodies. That includes hair. If someone is being tone deaf or racist, call them out on that. But don't tell them what they can or can't wear.
Whether it looks decent is another matter. Very few white people pull off dreads.
Whether it looks decent is another matter. Very few white people pull off dreads.
You hope the toilet water is the only mishap they had in that situation.
do those people ever even leave the forest?
If it's this woman, then it's a hell yeah.
i'll be readay..
Dreads have been a part of cultures of all skin colors. I still think they look terrible on most white people lol.
As for cultural appropriation, yeah, that happens sometimes. I've come across a few white people in my days that have identified as Rastafarian just because they liked Bob Marley and pot.
As for cultural appropriation, yeah, that happens sometimes. I've come across a few white people in my days that have identified as Rastafarian just because they liked Bob Marley and pot.
Seen dreads on Garrett from mega64 so long that I don't even really think about it much. I think it looks ok on him.(surprisingly difficult to find a good pic on Google)
It's probably been said many different ways already, but....
Just because you can, doesn't always mean you should.
Just because you can, doesn't always mean you should.
There is no proof that they did, however, it is not out of the question.
Looking around European history of that time provides several good examples of dreadlocked hairstyles.
- Indo-Aryans (ancestors of Iranians, Aryan castes of India, Slavs, and Germans among others) depicted their gods, and their kings with dreadlike locks on both hair and beards.
- Celts often greased their hair into (according to Roman sources) greased and chalked locks that "looked like snakes".
- Scythians, who invaded Europe during Migration Period DID wore single dreads, usually behind right ear. It is well documented in sculptures.
- Zaporozhian Cossacks (who, to some degree descend from Varangian/Viking Rus, and Scythians) used to wear "oseledec" a single lock above forehead, either in a form of a greased up knot, or straight up dreadlock.
- The strongest example of all (as well as the most well documented hairstyle in scientific literature) is the "Polish plait" an amulet-dreadlock, in different shapes and forms. It was a part of Slavic pagan magic, transfered into Polish folk beliefs and hairstyles, and survived up to XIX century. Ii was also represented in other European cultures: "Hexenzopf"-"witch-lock" among Germans, "elflock" on British Isles.
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I'd say dreads in and of themselves are not, but it often has been with the individual white people that wear them. Maybe that has changed more now with the more historical Viking stuff being bigger in popular culture than it had been.
I'm going to preface this by saying that I am mostly white and also just don't give a shit what other people do with their bodies for the most part, but I say that I see no real problems with white people having dreads
There's a guy I used to work with that did this. I can't remember if he was Swedish or Dutch (I barely knew the guy), but yea, they're out there.
So again a US thing that needs to be forced on to other countries, that have nothing to do with the context that people in the US have (or other countries that have the same context or similiar)? Good luck with that in Central or Eastern Europe .. this is a different thing then the n-word
of course its okay...people can do whatever the fuck they want with their hair, regardless of their skin color (WTF?)
Dreads just flatout look goofy on white people no matter what...cultural appropriation or not.
Look at this silly looking mutha fucka
Now look at this brutha here
Ain't no comparison
Look at this silly looking mutha fucka
Now look at this brutha here
Ain't no comparison
Let people wear their hair how they want.
Vikings wore gold grills and did rap battles too.
Vikings wore gold grills and did rap battles too.
Dreadlocks only work on white folks if they have naturally wiry hair. Think young (early-90s) Jeremy Clarkson. They don't work with completely flat hair.
Dreadlocks are a way of getting some shape into hair that is naturally predisposed to growing every which way. If your hair is already growing straight, there's no point (and in fact it might be detrimental to your hair's health).
Dreadlocks are a way of getting some shape into hair that is naturally predisposed to growing every which way. If your hair is already growing straight, there's no point (and in fact it might be detrimental to your hair's health).
Yes. It's a haircut.
You can have any hairstyle you want and wear any clothes you want unless they display explicit hate symbols. Anyone who says different is just not worth listening to.
You can have any hairstyle you want and wear any clothes you want unless they display explicit hate symbols. Anyone who says different is just not worth listening to.
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Google tells me it's up in the air, but the modern perception of "Viking dreadlocks" from various popular media sources is probably more important to current hairstyles.
Most white people don't have the hair for it so they end up fucking up their hair and scalp for the dread effect. Now it's just dirty gross hair.
Haha, same! It just popped into my mind, that song was crazy popular back then
Here's another nostalgia trip:
A quick google search seems to suggest that it's a great hairstyle to have if you like to have half the population think you're culturally inappropriate.
I'd say in some countries (specially in the US) dreads are definitely appropriative, but we shouldn't generalize this as a worldwide imperative since other countries might have different traditions and dynamics with this hairstyle.
Let people wear their hair how they want.
Vikings wore gold grills and did rap battles too.
Of course, they looked great on Zack as well!
It was a 90's look, definitely
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I appreciate seeing everyone's opinions on the topic. A lot of you are saying it looks like shit on white people or people who have fine/fair hair. I agree that it can look bad, but this case with my sister, she has very dark, thick, wavy hair, so it's definitely not the same as someone with fine, straight, blonde hair. Obviously four days is just the beginning of forming dreads, but she's using the neglect/freeform method, and the locks are already visibly forming.
Also, for those of you saying that dreads on white people are dirty/moldy/whatever, that's so wrong lol. You still wash your hair with dreads, just maybe not as often as others.
Also, for those of you saying that dreads on white people are dirty/moldy/whatever, that's so wrong lol. You still wash your hair with dreads, just maybe not as often as others.
Not seeing the problem with that first picture. There are so, SO many instances out there you could have pulled from of dreads looking terrible on white people. But you managed to find one here that actually came out looking totally fine...Dreads just flatout look goofy on white people no matter what...cultural appropriation or not.
Look at this silly looking mutha fucka
Now look at this brutha here
Ain't no comparison
Absolutely not, because they can't pull it off and because "actually Vikings" isn't really why they do it.