Yes! I don’t see a problem with someone white or any other race wearing dreads if they want to. I hate when people are constantly shouting cultural appropriation, but the only time I don’t think it’s acceptable is if someone is wearing dreads and constantly making racist remarks towards black people and black culture. But if someone is going to wear them, I just want them to be kind and respectful. The Japanese love when other cultures wear kimonos and implement part of their culture into their everyday lives. But as long as you are doing it with respect, there’s no problem. Also, I know that in certain parts of the world traditionally black hairstyles are not accepted or they are seen negatively because people don’t understand it. But if more people were open to wearing their hair in those styles, then I believe it would make things more acceptable for everyone to wear their hair how they want to without feeling judged.
Why wouldn't they be able to?
Dreads date back as far as the Vikings, if not much further, which I promise they do. I just think they're actually disgusting, as most people who have them take poor care of them. They're not easy to look after so do your research if you do want dreads. You'll need to know the proper care if you want them to stay looking decent.
Someone i knew she had them and was white and normally i ain't that attracted to dreadlocks. but i was to hers they can be done. So yes of course. i think that fake one looks great from that photo.
Ps some great boyfriend you have there. I am sure you would be pretty with one and it's always up to you and for you if you want one. Don't change your style or hair for anyone but yourself.
If you like it go for it.
I'm black snd i don't care if y'all wear them. Only dumb black woman seems to care.
But you guys look dirty or hippie-looking when you wear it.
It's true when having u seen a normal straight black dude republican or democrat say he cares about a white dude or chic with dreads.
They either gay or a woman. Or some dumbass SJW black man. Aka a gay black man
Also when white guys wear it i think they're in the band Korn lol. Enough jokes though. Kr you guys got some good weed
These “dumb black women” have a problem because WE Including BLACK MEN lose our jobs, can’t walk for our graduation, get discriminated against. Meanwhile, white folks wear them and they don’t lose their jobs or deal with anything when they wear OUR hairstyles. So shuck and jive if you want to but you’re still black at the end of the day.
Its the white people's job or house they can do whatever. Start your own company or school. stop thinking everybody your friend.
Find some SJW white people and they'll let you wear your hair, however.
Its common sense. Always blaming something on white people you knew that certain group of white people didn't like you or culture find some white people that do or don't care.
Always bitter black woman
Also, you lying you know damn well. That shaggy Korn looking guy ain't working in cooperate offices with that hairstyle.
No, you cannot discriminate someone based on how they wear their hair (ESPECIALLY if it’s just how it grows out their scalp). It’s racism. And clearly these white folks with “locs” are not out of a job, so where is the lie sweetie.
You talking a lot of shit while being anonymous. Does that boot taste good?
Sure does. I'm honest, not stupid why would i let you harass me.
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My oppinion is that they look really bad. The facts are, they ARE dirty and they will stink. I knew girl that followed the greatful dead, the center of several locks were like rotting... it was because when she bathed soap and funk doesn't wash out easily or completely. That causes rot. Its organic and anything like that is not really healthy... I mean if u like it , cool , go w it... if dogs follow you and gnats and flies won't leave u alone , don't wonder why... I seen someone that had maggots from the flies that laid there eggs
I've been friends with crusties for years, many of them have dreadlocks. Many of them are badass too.
The often brought up argument is that it's apparently "black hair" even though the Vikings, the Egyptians and Romans and Spartans had dreads. For the Spartans and the Vikings, having dreads and the length of them were synonymous with war and how long a man had been out fighting. The longer his dreads, the more experienced a warrior he was. With vikings that correlated with beards as well.
Pirates were known for having dreads. Native Americans have been known to have dreadlocks.
So anyone who wants to use the "African Americans own dreadlocks" crap can fuck off. Cause you're a liar.
I like this question very much. In answer to it, yes I believe so. I’m tired of this cultural appropriation. Funny how the main group of people who are complaining about this still wear wigs, long straight hair or even hair dyed blond some times. What happened to cultural appropriation? Double-standard? If that’s so then if you’re white, Mexican, etc., you shouldn’t be allowed to cook Chinese food or any number of other foods that aren’t part of your culture because that’s cultural appropriation. I’m sick and tired of this BS, seems as though society has been forced into accepting a number of issues simply because they’re scared of being called racist when in reality you really aren’t. I’m waiting for the first white person to start a show called WET, white entertainment. See how long that last.
The Vikings & other Germanic tribes wore them. The easiest way of going into battle without risking getting your hair yanked if it was long.
But a friend's South African. Looks "white". He has African ancestry, a number of African friends, and probably knows more about authentic African culture than the knickers in a bunch easily offended dreads-are-black-inventions (no, they're Egyptian or Indian actually but hey stupid people always have the loudest mouths) African Americans who likely know little to nothing about Africa & most certainly wouldn't survive there.
The white dreadlocks seem rather futuristic and interesting.
There's only one question here: can you actually pull it off?
The girl in the picture certainly can, probably because she's a model or a serious cosplayer. Can YOU pull that look, though?
I mean, if I could, sure, I'd do it.
You can wear any hairstyle you want. It is literally just hair and people who cry about what you have on your OWN head are just extremely sensitive and need to get a life. If you like it, then go for it. At the end of the day, hair isn't a permanent thing. It can easily be changed.
Yes, why not? as long as you don't change their origine/background, though you can't do that since dreadlocks are worldwide famous (unlike the "Amazigh tatoues" that some people get without having the slightest idea what they mean or represent and have the audacity of either claim it came from their narrowminded uncultivated selves or construct a totale bullshit bobo/boho/spiritual background to them)
Really depends if you rock it and it matches your style. doesn't hurt to try something for a couple months.
But yea it matches their skintone and they have been training their hair, so.. i mean its their natural hair so it'll look better. The same way many black women have straight hair wigs because they get bored of their natural curly hair or think the wig looks better, not realizing most people probably think their natural hair looks incredible. 🤷♂️
This question should be in the Society & Politics category and I have that category blocked, because I don't want political questions in my feed. I am trying really hard to work on my mental health and politics just ruins it. I am not special though, so you don't have to do anything for me, but if you would be nice enough to be considerate the next time for us folks who get a headache from politics, that'd be appreciated!
I've never liked dreadlocks on anyone, regardless who you are. Its like someone drank a soda and put all their hair in the can and slowly pulled their hair out bit by bit through the opening pushing it together. And voila, you got long nasty looking hair. Never found anyone with dreadlocks attractive either, it just looks wrong to me
People like to look homeless. Someone saw he homeless and though it was attractive and started dressing in clothes that looks too big and aged alongside the happy hair that looks like they haven’t combed in ages and made it a style. It’s not about what color you are, simply some people look good in weird stuff and others don’t.
Yes - I once watched a video by a wonderful Jamaican man called Kris McDread ( lovely man btw) and he was explaining that if a human being does not brush their hair, a dreadlock will naturally form. So of course white people can have dreadlocks, they are only doing what would naturally happen to their hair if they let it be anyway :)
First thing's first: I believe dreads look awesome on most people (male/female, black/white/whatever). It's a great looking hairstyle and anyone even imagining the words "cultural appropriation" can go fuck themselves and then kill themselves, racist fucks.
Second, I oppose to the cheating methods, because they do look ugly ("wool" or any kind of full extensions). Grow your hair enough and then get dreads, that's all there is to it.
Evidently black people are saying it's 'culture misappropriation'. Isn't that silly? We like it well enough to adopt it but they think you've taken something from them that somehow belongs to them.
Like wearing a sombrero - somehow that's racist now.
People like that ARE the racists! The rest of everybody just likes cool cultural things, regardless of where they came from.
People of any color can wear anything they choose. Some would call this cultural appropriation. I say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. No one is in charge of you but you. If you want to have dreadlocks then have them.
Oh no! The dreaded black face! The wearing of indigenous peoples clothes. The humanity! Where will it end!
Who cares? Really. Everything is racist or sexist to people like you.
You absolutely can, but it looks absolutely shitty at least on all of the white people's I've seen so far. I mean it looks so cringy so unaesthetic it's just like a white person who wants to be black so bad.
@BagoH
Why do you believe a white person wants to be black just because they have dreadlocks? That would be like anyone who wears jeans wants to be Italian since jeans were first made in Genoa Italy. Just because someone who is not nlack has dreadlocks does not automatically mean tgey want to be black
Some people can pull it off but for the most part they just look trashy and unclean. Plus white people hair is usually too straight for it to really work so you'll just end up w nasty knotty strands when your hair starts to grow
brendan frasier (? sp?) anyone? in encino man? like yes! and pauly freakin shore? OMG son in law when he does the square dance calling? oh like what a crazy scream! so i would say a very, very strong yes! i love it!
Anyone can wear deadlock if they want to, regardless of the color of their skin. The whole "cultural appropriation" thing is just SJW bullshit.
However, I can't imagine why anyone would want to have dreadlocks. Have you ever seen what the insider of a dreadlock looks like if you cut it open? That's some nasty shit.
Cultural appropriation my ass if u want them then get them, it's about how YOU feel not about what others think.
i see people from other cultures straightening their hair, getting coloured contact lenses and dying their hair blond, so why not?
Those have nothing to do with cultural appropriation. It’s false attribution. Only the privileged are able to culturally appropriate since it’s taking from another culture and adopting it, transforming it as something beneficial or customary in the privileged culture but demean the original individuals in the culture.
Braids are a classic example. Blacks have been refused jobs based on this hair style (and schools have sent children home because of it) yet it is celebrated by whites as some nouveau hairstyle.
Big difference.
Depends on the person it suits some better than others, culturally as long as you don't fuck up (which is pretty easy) I don't see a problem with it.
However I wonder if it won't break some types of hair... I'm more into box braids.
Dreadlocks look absolutely hideous on white people. It's like putting a mop on your head. I can't explain it, but it just looks a lot less crappy on darker-skinned people.
If they can get it to lock properly I don’t c y not. A lot of people I have seen with dreads don’t seem to take care of them and they end up looking like crackheads.
of course they can. The earliest known examples of dreadlocks are from the Minoans- a group of people depicted in paintings from the time in Greece... as white! Julius Caesar also famously commented on the German people "having hair like snakes" which is an obvious reference to dreadlocks. Anybody that tries to tell you dreadlocks are only allowed to be worn by certain skin types is a racist. It's just that simple.
Let’s not forget that black women try to look white with their hair a lot more than white women do Afros or dreads...
I'm white and I find it cringe worthy when I see other white folk with them. Looks awful, and a bit grubby on white folk.
They can but they look dumb lol. Having said that i wore them once and painted my nails to match my basketball uniform ( just try to keep in mind this, was the Dennis Rodman era and try not to judge me too harshly lol).
They can wear dreadlocks, but it typically doesn't look good. On Caucasian people, it just looks dirty... And very unnatural.
Regardless of fashion, you gotta let a person do as he or she pleases. It's not cultural appropriation for simply copying a hairstyle. Monkey see, monkey do.
Plus: the "tighter" dreadlocks, if I remember correctly, are of Nordic origin.
You can do what you want but to me dreadlocks are gross on anyone.
I don't care if you wear them or not, but in my opinion most of the time (easily 90%) they just look trashy and gross.
Its like everything really, try them out... see if it suits you or not.
Well there is no law prohibiting it, and I personally don't see anything morally wrong with it. That said, dreadlocks are gross and ugly (on anyone).
There is literally a law being passed in some states prohibiting the discrimination of black women who wear their natural hair. So yes, there is a law prohibiting US for wearing dreads and not white people.
@Rina_colada You mean prohibiting the discrimination of *exclusively* black women with natural hair, while discrimination of black women with dreads is legal? Also, discrimination in what context? Hiring? College admissions? Which state? And are you sure you're not mistaking a bill for a law?
If this is even real, and you're not mischaracterizing it, my guess is that it's merely a bill. There are roughly 5,000 bills proposed per year, and only 5% of them become law. There was once a bill proposed in Oklahoma that would formally ban food that contained human fetuses. Was that actually happening? No, but ya know... just in case. My point is, there are A LOT of stupid ass bills proposed. It's not exactly newsworthy. If it becomes law, then we'll talk.
You do realize dreads are a natural hairstyle correct? The fact that this had to go through any type of legislation should let you know that WE are being discriminated for wearing our hair in a natural state. And discrimination everywhere. Especially in the work place. People have literally lost jobs because they wore their hair natural or in some type of protective style. Meanwhile a white person could wear it and no one bats an eye.
@Rina_colada Could you please share the specific case/bill/law or whatever you are referencing? I am literally unable to weigh in until I know what the hell you're talking about.
Girl, you can google it. I don’t owe you an explanation. It’s enforce in New York City and California.
@Rina_colada That's not how debates work, honey. If you're going to make an assertion, you need to provide the reference it's based on. Otherwise, nobody can even know for sure that they're arguing about the same thing.
"It’s enforce in New York City and California." Well that's a start. Now I at least know what you're talking about. However, you have it flipped. NY and California are the only 2 states that have a formal ban on workplace discrimination based on hairstyle.
Your initial claim that "there is a law prohibiting black people from wearing dreads" is extremely incorrect. Presumably, what you might be complaining about is the lack of laws prohibiting employers from not hiring candidates/firing existing employees for their hair styles. To which I would disagree. I believe an employer should have the right to terminate an employee or reject a candidate at any time, for any reason. If the reason is illegitimate, the labor market will put the employer out of business because nobody will want to work for them. State intervention is not only unnecessary, but wrong, on account of making employment contracts involuntary. They should remain voluntary, else you cede the authority to the state restrict or compel employees just as much as it does to employers.
I’m not debating you. I’m telling you this is what is going on. My oppression is not up for discussion. If you chose to be willfully ignorant that sounds like a personal problem. Black people get kicked out of schools, fired from jobs, not able to walk on our own graduations, etc. because we decide to wear our hair the way it grows from our scalp.
@Rina_colada Public school is different. Attending a public school is not a voluntary contract, because attending *a* school is made mandatory via truancy laws, and because you are taxed to fund the public school in your district and cannot obtain a voucher to redirect those funds to a public school in another district or private school, you don't have the choice to simply go attend another school, without paying tuition on top of being taxed, (unlike employment where you are not forced to work for one employer, and can choose any employer you like).
As for private college/university, they should have the right to turn away applicants for any reason, uphold any dress/presentation codes on campus they deem fit. However, they ought be transparent about their policies. I would be inclined to agree that if you attended a university for 4 years, obtained your degree, and nobody ever mentioned their policy on hairstyle, for them to suddenly not allow you to walk at graduation would be a violation of contract if that was not a part of the initial agreement. And if it was, that's on you for not thoroughly reading the contract. And in this case, there is nothing compelling you to attend any 1 university, so if you don't like their policies, you can always opt for another.
My point on the first part was that until public school is abolished or school vouchers are implemented, I would support anti-discrimination laws in public schools, and in public schools only. However, public school should be abolished anyway.
It doesn’t matter. Having policies that tell black people they can’t wear their hair how it naturally grows out their scalp in schools, jobs, internships, anywhere is anti-black and racist. No matter how you spin it. This isn’t up for debate. You don’t have the license to tell me what is or isn’t racist or anti-black.
@Rina_colada That's the thing, there are no policies that dictate how black people wear their hair. Private entities cannot compel anyone to do anything. All they can do is reject a contract with you if you refuse the terms of the contract. And it is everyone's natural right to reject any contract for any reason. Only the state can compel. State intervention = compulsion. No state intervention = no compulsion. If they reject the contract based on race, that is wrong, and they deserve to be put out of business--by the labor market (NOT the state).
Not to mention that these policies are not what you claim them to be in the first place. They are not discrimination against race. They are discrimination against "x", "y", or "z" hairstyle, and anyone of any race can have any hairstyle. You could argue that such discrimination inadvertently disproportionately affects black individuals because the hairstyles in question happen to be more common among them. And if so, it is your natural right to take your money elsewhere, and expose the individual/business on social media so that a large number of people follow suit.
And lastly, EVERYTHING is "up for debate". Claiming anything is "not up for debate" is extremely authoritarian and unacceptable. You don't have the license to decide what is and isn't "up for debate" nor the license to define racism at your convenience. Everyone is equally qualified to define racism. Arguing that one's race qualifies or disqualifies one from defining racism, is in itself racism.
Girl, I’m not gonna argue with you about what’s discriminatory towards me and other black folks. Clearly it’s not happening to other races because it’s OUR hairstyles along with pictures of black girls and boys with that hairstyle. And no, we should have to struggle to find a school or a job because schools and companies want to have racist policies. But you’re too privileged to see how that affects us. Sorry you’re too dense to have this conversation.
@Rina_colada Ok, don't address any of my points and just go on a tangent about "privelege". Great 👌
You made no valid points tho. All you did is was talk shit and try to undermine what Black people experience with bullshit “logic”. You really thought you was doing something.
@Rina_colada Not once did I mention anything about the experiences of black people, and presumably neither did the policies being discussed. This discussion is about hairstyle. You made it about race.
Because it is about race...
I would not recommend it. Dreadlocks rarely look good on black people and I’ve never seen a white person who didn’t look ridiculous with them.
ANYONE can wear dreadlocks including white people, it's rightfully their hair and they can do whatever they want to it. My only problem is that most white people can't pull it off, it usually ends up looking like a dirty mop.
If a black women wears dreadlocks this is typically how people treat/feel about her
She's ugly, unprofessional, looks like a man, isn't feminine enough, is poor.
White people?
Special, cool, different
I swear to God...
This should answer your question
I think they are lovely on all people if well kept.
Don't care. I think it looks like crap on white people though.
Yes, but that hairdo looks like a mess on every race. So it looks bad on everyone
Personally dreadlocks look trashy and dirty to me regardless who wears them.
Sure as long as you pay your respects to where the hairstyle comes from.
well i think you seem to be a nice person and i don't want to offend you - like EVER! but your comment about paying respects - who are referring to? hairstyles have been around since hair was invented so trying to take something so ridiculous as a hairstyle and try to claim racism is probably the reason why the world seems to have gone absolutely berserker crazy! who cares what colour you are and what you want to do with your hair? and yes - white people - i said it - white! people have had dreadlocks since they had hair. and so did most aboriginals. and then you have to think of the whole middle-far-and near east where they also learned how to make wool and string and silk and material and wrote stuff and of course Jamaicans look good in dreadlocks - they make anything look good cuz they are so chill - and i know a ton of them - they settled on my island in the 1800's and that was before new waterford even got named as a town. oh and africa? south and central america? do you we have to go to tasmania, new zealand and australia? peeps from all over have been wearing dreadlocks forever. and Guanfei's reply to your comment was spot on. and i hope that i have explained myself enough to say i was never laughing at you - i was laughing at the ridiculousness of it all. oh and his comment. cuz he nailed it! to. the. floor!
and i'd still like to be friends. i like learning from people. and i always try to be decent and respectful.
Ah, the racism card. The only argument of those who have none. Too bad for you, lady, this is a card I don't care about. You're free to try something else or leave it at that.
Also, it's not a joke. That hairstyle was worn almost everywhere. From northern Europe to China, Africa, India, and even native American.
If anything, you'd be the one practicing cultural appropriation (if such thing existed) by claiming it come only from the black community.
ok now both of you are making sense and i am trying to get out of this conversation that i jumped in and i am happy or something? so thank you. ya thank you. (*tries bowing out backwards gracefully and a trained ballerina to boot but feeling like an amazonian elephant and i'm not sure they exist - history and all - but ya i am crashing into everything and this is not pretty at all*)
It’s not yours lol you’re trying to say this hairstyle is from Africa and going bozonkers assuming Someone’s defending the African culture.
Also history of racism in America is pretty shitty, a c@ucasian won’t be treated the same as a black with the same hairstyles. That’s just facts a law barely came out in Cali having to protect against that but poor white people who can’t wear their locks right?
Also again the ones you’re referring to aren’t even from Africa which makes you that much more ignorant to start, you didn’t know shit about them anyways.
@Guanfei ok like you know that cleopatra invented that hair right? when she was belly-dancing for David? but her name was something else? Lilith? oh yes - let's go to the fair! i could never turn down a good circus! my favourite ride? polar bear express! what the hell are you 2 even talking about now? like wha?
Well that little discussion obviously shows that I know way more about history than you do. All you seem to know about history is what you little victimization group taught you, which is clearly nothing.
So, go take a real history book, learn and then we'll see if you deserve more than 5 minutes of attention. For now, all you get is a laugh. And since this is going nowhere, I'll just let you drown in your own ignorance.
Sad because the more you talk the more your racist mentality shows you made a wholeee leap in a different direction there. This was about where a certain hairstyle came from and how it’s disrespectful to just use it not knowing.
Also what can I expect you’re whyte
Yes that’s purposely spelled out wrong because I’m not getting blocked for speaking my mind.
But I'm not blocking you, dear. That's not how I do things. I'll just ignore all your pathetic attempt to draw that to a debate on racism where it has nothing to do.
Also, since you want to talk about racism here, you're the one practicing it. Obviously, you have something against white people, and it shows. Poor little hateful thing, I pity you.
And on that last note, as I said, I'll let you in your ignorance and your hate. All I can do is hope that someday you won't be as blinded as you are today.
What isn't racist?
Racist towards who you fucking snowflake? 😂
White people apparently can do whatever the Fu m they want.
It does not say anything about who can or can't do what they choose with their hair in the segregation catalog. So yes.
Yes, of course, they/we can. It's now just a matter of do they/we want to.
I think it takes the right person with the right personality
it's pretentious as hell for white people to wear dreads
we're not talking about braids here we're talking about dreadlocks
They can, but they’ll look bad with them. Just like anyone of any race looks bad with them tbh.
If they want, I don't like them myself bit there's no reason not to do whatever you want
Its just hair and if you look good and feel good about the way you look, go for it.
i woke up with one and it scared the shit out of me! i didn't actually shit until i yelled dodo
We can but that doesn't mean we should , it looks like shit on us.
I'm not sure. Some people say no, some yes. I'm white and have had a black person tell me I'd look good with dreads or cornrows. She offered to do my hair for me, but I politely declined.
Sure they can. I think it looks horrible, but if you want it, you get it.
CAN they? (denoting physical ability to do something) Yes.
SHOULD they? No.
Nor should anyone.
Sure why now, an yes I'm a African American person by the way.👍
you do realize white people have been doing it as far back as possible, such as Celtic tribes
Yes... The only people that say no are idiot leftist feminists that try to push that its Cultural appropriation which is complete and utter nonsense. It simply does not exist.
Yup I've seen a few cuties with them, black, white, and Asian
They're kind of nasty because you can't really wash them. Or at least the inside part where they're all rolled together.
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