@@anniekate76in Australia kids often make fun of any differences, but if it's an adult they might laugh because a red haired person is likely to get sunburned really fast
A true story. I’m Irish and have a rare strawberry blonde / gold colour hair which meant combined with my yellow/green eyes got me noticed over the years wherever I went especially in Europe. I think I have only ever meet 2 people my entire life with my hair colour and they were women. Back in 1989 I was on a train from Berlin and heading to Leipzig. The train stopped and 3 girls joined and sat opposite me. 2 got into an animated conversation and one asked me a question. Didn’t speak German but one of her colleagues spoke English and told me they were Hairdressers going to a convention in Dresden and asked me what colour I dyed my hair. I said it wasn’t dyed. The Two girls got into an even more animated conversation and then before you could snap your finger they were either side of me and pawing at my hair checking the roots. This was the best bit. Suddenly a pair of scissors appeared and they cut a chunk of my hair off. The one who spoke English said “We want to get it analysed so we can match the colour. At that moment my stop was approaching... I grabbed my bag and headed for the door. The one who spoke English asked where I was going!. My reply “I’m leaving before your two colleagues cut other bits of me!”
@@kateh2893 It's not often I get caught out but that was a rare time..... After that incident I kept my hair short so it would not get noticed as much. Wishful thinking on my part. Made no difference especially when the sun catches it....
My blonde wife was an exchange student in Costa Rica, and on a bus someone behind her tried to cut off a lock of hair. My wife thought it was weird but funny, but her host "sister" started yelling at whoever it was. The clipping of hair by strangers is real!
@@cuthbertallgood7781 Well red hair is only found in 1% of the world population ironically 87% of it is found in Scotland (no idea why!) so true blonde hair or even a true redhead like Eleanor stands out a mile... As I said my hair colour is so rare, in 60 years of travelling I have only ever encountered two people with it...... There has never been anyone in the family with my hair colour. All gingers or black......
@@zygmuntthecacaokakistocrat6589 I really thought she was going to say 'ranga' and then I would have apologised to her on behalf of Australia. Maybe I still should.
In Japanese folklore demons are often portrayed as having red hair and green eyes. A friend who taught English there told me that the sight of a redhead could terrify a little kid!
@@b.a.erlebacher1139 A friend of mine was a tall, pale redheaded man. He visited a shrine to Inari-sama when he was a younger adult. They were performing a ritual for Him. At the end, one of the priests chose a rice ball from the offerings and gave it to my friend. He had no idea what the etiquette was, but he felt rude keeping it all, so he broke it in half and handed one piece back. The priest took it but looked like he'd seen the impossible. I told him the priest likely wanted to be sure the god or one of His emissaries wasn't standing there in human form, at risk of being offended if he didn't get any.
@@b.a.erlebacher1139I am japanese and we barely see damon or evil as a symbol or a charactor in Japan, so I did not know the redheaded with green eye portrayed damon... Anyhow actually we have positive impression to redhead in Japan so redheaded people are sometimes models
@@aoiukm Thanks. I will believe you about Japanese culture before my Canadian friend who lived there only a short time. Maybe some people he met in Japan were telling him this to tease him!
I’m from Japan too. The demon with red hair has primary color red hair, there’s also another with blue hair. So, I don’t think people would associate redheads with the folklore demon.
A friend of mine from Hong Kong admitted to me (both bald and ginger) that meeting their first ginger when moving to England was rather disappointing. Having read books as a child with people described as “red haired”, when she found out it meant orangey-brown instead of primary colour red it was a bit underwhelming.
@@Barnaclebeard stfu how or why should they know there aren't exactly a lot of red haired people in hk. also why look it up, they heard they were red, they thought they were, well, red - like with any other hair colour yk
Also what does that hair colour have to do with actual ginger anyway? Ginger grey on the outside and yellow on the inside. The flower petals are also yellow. And Ginger ale is more of a mud-to-olive drab/green.
What are inappropiate questions? (-; We don't even consider "How are you?" as inappropiate and answer to the best of our knowledge to such kind of questions...
Was inappropriate about someone saying that they would adopt you. Doesn't that mean that they like you. When I was 18 I used to work at Sears. There's this very sweet elderly Couple of women a mother and daughter. The daughter was in like her seventies and the mother was nineties. They adored me and kept saying they wanted to adopt me. It was always so sweet watching them shop. It always come to this little department store Decked out In fancy costume jewelry.
By the way, there are a lot of red-heads among Udmurts, one of Finno-Ugric peoples of Russia - about as many as in Ireland or in Scotland. So if you go to Udmurtia, you may be considered a native there :)
@@grixit There are no reindeer in Udmurtia, if I am not mistaken, so more likely a bowl of local dumplings, a local pie or something like that. Although I am not an Udmurt myself and can't garantee their hospitality :)
The other day, my boyfriend (who has red hair) and I were visiting with our Vietnamese friend. His younger sister came by and actually freaked out seeing that my boyfriend is a red head. She was quite literally speechless and astounded and in disbelief. She’s 16 and said “I’ve never seen one in real life!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣 it was quite comical.. my boyfriend has a good sense of humor and found it entertaining.
Most of the world has only very black features.. very black hair, very darkbrown eyes.. and yellowish brown, brown or black skin.. if that is what people means with diversity, then I want none of that.
I've got that beat. So I'm out doing the shopping run, I'm walking down the aisle with all the baked goods, cookies and the like and I pass a middle-aged Indian couple there. The husband looks directly at me and as I pass, he turns to his wife, cool as you like and hand to God, I distinctly hear him say "Do they have any ginger nuts?" Glad I could help. 🙄
Yeah, as a kid you just saw redheads around and I didn't get how rare it was, especially for adults. So kids didn't ge bullied or especially admired for it.
Redhead from Nova Scotia, Canada here (well, grey now) and yes, a deep attachment to Scottish heritage here. In all my travels, it was Egyptian boys running up behind me to touch my long red hair and then running away giggling that was the funniest - like the China bit. And the eyebrow reaction did happen in Turkey and in Portugal. Hilarious sketch.
Visiting the barbers (in 1968) the owner offered me a free haircut if I would renew my crewcut and let the apprentice do it. Apparently the tonsorial examinations at the time required a crewcut and redheaded crewcuts don't show the inaccuracies as readily as other shades. I think I was the last crewcut in the town ( York ). He did a good job and it was free!
Blond hair shows every little line, cut, and error, as compared to red hair. My brother had red hair, always looked great. Me? Towhead, white blond, showed every minor slip or screw up possible.
Red hair is said to be the thickest, while blond hair is said to be the thinnest. (each hair for itself i mean) But people with read hair have fewer hair folikles on the head (and they are wider spaced than brown, blond and black hair.) So red hair is less numerous on the head but thicker. (thus is usually looking quite full and voluminous)
But in 1968 that would’ve been like a punishment, having to live with a crew cut for a long time, so the “free” part would be no bargain, for me at least. But, different strokes. Funny how things change-in 1958 it would’ve been a normal haircut.
There was an appliance store owner in town whose trademark was a flat-top crewcut (into the 1990s) In the '70s and '80s, he offered free crew cuts to the kids of families visiting the store. I don't know how many people took him up on it, but he was pretty popular. RIP Tom Peterson, Portland, Oregon
I met a Turkish redhead once in Jacksonville (FL). She looked as Irish as the lady in this video, but when she was introduced as being from Turkey, and specifically from the capital, Ankara, I was surprised. She had met a nice young Jacksonville boy who had gone to Turkey with the Peace Corps, married him, and moved to America with him. In later research, I learned that a Celtic tribe chased by the Romans had settled in what is now the part of Turkey where Ankara is, and became known as Galatians (from Gaul). St. Paul wrote a letter to them! It’s amazing how red headed people got around!
Interestingly enough, as a Turkish who lived in Ankara until 18 years of age, moved to US and actually lived in Jacksonville FL for like a year - I have not seen a true red hair in both places, like the girl in the video! P.S. How can I look up the story of the Celtic ppl that ended up in Ankara?
@@sazidhasankhan9144 I know. I was referring to the fact that the Celtic appearance had spread all over Europe and the Middle East (Mary Magdalene and, in Marc Chagall’s art, even Jesus, are portrayed as redheaded, due to a few scattered Biblical descriptions) even before the age of European colonization took Celtic genes to the Americas, Australia, etc.
Canadian here. You're dead on with one of two reactions. The other is elderly Irish ladies asking if you're Irish too, and wanting to know all about your family tree. And yes, my mother's family IS indeed Irish. It delights the old ladies, and also a Vietnamese member of my dance class, who *just knew* that someone who was so pale and ginger HAD to be at least part Irish. She was not disappointed. The hilarious part is that my hair isn't naturally red! I just use a shade that everyone mistakes for real! 🤣
@@matthewbelike the most red-haired people on Earth are Udmurts, living in the Republic of Udmurtia (Russia) in the Easternmost point of Europe right on the Urals, the Asia border. 13% of entire Udmurts are ginger, and they have zero Celtic blood, they aren't even Indo-Europeans, but Finno-Ugric
As a Brazilian person I can guarantee that the Brazil reaction is accurate. Here we view red hair people as unique and beautiful. We treat them like goddesses to be honest lol
thats because brazilians are mostly brown skinned pardos, blacks, or dark whites (mostly portuguese and italian mix with some small remmannent native and african DNA like those """whites""" from Sao Paulo)
Ok, so I shouldn't be laughing, since I know redheads really get a lot of crap from other cultures, but damn! The China reaction in particular cracked me up the most. I got the same reaction for my locs. :P Great video, as always. :)
Gingers can be as bad for this as anyone else: as late as the 1980s, this was the reaction Africans and afro-Caribbeans could expect in Scotland and Ireland towards their hair - people asking to touch it, or making excuses to touch it. I couldn’t believe this was happening in the 20th century to my friends, but you could expect it every other time you went to the pub.
@@jorgefalcon224 They want to touch it. When I was young, African students in my city used to get this reaction too. People seem to have this instinctive reaction with hair they haven’t seen close up before. Most Han Chinese head-hair, the individual hairs are also thicker and straighter compared to the head+hairs of western Europeans - and a lot of redheads have finer hairs again (it depends). It looks like it should have a different texture and indeed it usually does have a softer, glossier texture. This reaching out and touching it somewhat dehumanising. Even more dehumanising - I’m embarrassed to say - in my country at one time there was actually some sort of “good luck” belief with some people about rubbing an African person’s head / hair. Even as late as the 1980s, friends of mine found that old people would either make an excuse to rub or pat their head - or just do it, exactly like in the sketch.
My fiance is called Eleanor. She is a redhead. The fact that the algorithm showed me this video... does nothing to dissuade me of the notion that I'm being surveilled by the technology in my home. Also, for those who are curious about redheads, I will confirm: It's not that my particular Eleanor doesn't have a soul... it's that her soul is made of lava from the eruption that claimed Pompeii, coupled with vast quantities of chilli flakes and paprika.
I went searching for a comment like this 🙌🏻 I was a strawberry blonde with non existent eyebrows because they’re so fair. Over the years my hair has turned brown but if you look at in the sunlight it’s quite cool. My “other” hair has stayed strawberry blonde and my eyebrows are still nonexistent. So it’s like being a ginger undercover, if that makes any sense 🤔
Same. Mine's naturally a dark auburn, with the vampiricly pale skin, of course, but I frequently dye it to a more "natural" looking ginger. And forget tanning. I burn and I freckle. Nothing in between.
As an American redhead, I thank you for this video! I have been all around the world and I can attest, these are accurate! There's an old legend that if you rub a redhead's head, you'll get good luck. And then there's the other notion that we're evil and collect souls. 🤣
I was doing extra work on the old Cagney and lacy show back in the 80s and one of the male actors actually did start rubbing my head and I asked him what the heck and he said it was for good luck. That was the first time I had ever heard of such silliness.
@@latsnojokelee6434 That's kinda cool! lol Both my brother and I have been "rubbed" since we were little. I think people saw and said, "Two for one special!" 🤣
As a child in the 90s, I lived on an undeveloped Caribbean island and for many there, I was the first ginger they had ever seen. The kids would ask how I got my hair like that. I felt like a God.
It was like being a celebrity in China back in 2004. I had school children stopping me and taking pictures of me. I must appear in some very old scrapbooks all over Shanghai.😂😂
This video reminds me of why I was afraid of Germans when I was traveling. They just say what they're thinking but in a way like they asked themselves "should I say that?" and then said it anyway. It felt very deliberate.
Lol at the canadian one! I actually remember reading once that for lots of scots-canadians getting an honest to God native born scottish wife or husband is a big deal lol.
My mother had red hair as a kid and orangey+hazel eyes and haaated it because she was always made fun of by the other kids. I got only the dominant genes, sadly! Best story from my redhead bestie when we were teens was how an adult woman asked where she’d gotten such an authentic-looking dye job with all the different shades in it. 😂
I have naturally blond hair with white streaks in the front and forever black eyebrows. I looked like a failed Targaryen every time I fell asleep in the sun. ppl always asked why I bleached only my front hair and didn't do my eyebrows too. I'd tell them "dunno, ask my mom, that's how she made me". Some got the joke, many didn't it, though my mom was a shit hairdresser so I'd tell to "go tell her that". Nobody ever said they'd complain to her face.
Since the gene is both dominant and recessive you could still have kids with red hair if your partner also has the gene. That's how I got red hair with two parents that have dark blond hair (though my father at least had a reddish beard).
In 1970, I visited a colleague's home in Kigezi. I had to pay a special visit to one of his neighbours because their 3 year old was worried that a new kind of cow had been allowed into the house....cows being the only walking things that were white with red patches.
I love this as an Irish person! Every other nationality: *Fascinated either positively or negatively* Irish: *Sees someone who looks completely normal*
When I was younger I was often asked if it was my own hair colour (even by hairdressers). Now I'm in my late 50's I think everyone assumes it's dyed, not realising that red hair lasts much longer. My mother, in her 90s, still has a red tinge to her hair.
My sister and I are red heads. She is older and in her late 50's turned a "blond" grey. I'm 6 years behind her and my is starting to turn grey. Not enough though to find out if it will be the same.
lucky you - I'm a natural redhead but it faded to browny red and now white gray in my 40s. Both me and my sister. I don't know where folks get this idea that red hair lasts longer - I only now one redhead who still has red in their 60s, everyone else faded or grayed early.
Canadian here (also happen to be a Maritimer, though from the "happy island of PEI"). Just wanted to say you really nailed the "Blue Nosers" (slang for mainland NS folk, as apart from Cape Breton folk who are known as "Capers" or "depressed".) A strong offering from clan McKrankie, though I thought they should perhaps sweeten the deal a bit in the customary way with the customary offerings of Donairs and Brothers Pepperoni...
An acquaintance here in the USA with naturally red hair and green eyes once told me that as a child, other children would tease that she was a witch. My reaction was that her hair is gorgeous! Your US is spot on. I also loved China and Turkey the best, though they were all wonderful.
The witch thing is indeed a strong stereotype in the US. Think of Susan Sarandon in the Witches of Eastwick or Nicole Kidman in Practical Magic. Alyson Hannigan/Willow in Buffy. Rowena in Supernatural. Charmed had some redhead witches. Robin Tunney in The Craft. This all probably started with Endora on Bewitched. Or wait... Glinda the Good Witch from Wizard of Oz, of course! *Edit: Ok, I am researching this topic and the association of red hair with witchcraft goes waaay back. Ancient pagans thought dying their hair red bestowed magical powers. Medieval Europeans burned thousands at the stake just for having red hair. Wow. I did not know this.
Why is that question even asked? I can remember from a young age asking if my carpet matched the drapes and not understanding the question. Why would someone be asking me about carpet and drapes. Why is it necessary to know the exact color of the carpet, Or whether it matches the drapes. Is there something Unusual about having a red carpet?
@@wimsylogic65 "is there something unusual about having a red carpet?" Finally an answer to the question! But in more seriousness I think it's just to make people feel uncomfortable and to be a dickhead but I suppose (unlikely though) that for some people there may be curiousity about whether the carpet is darker enough that it no longer looks red but at the same time, it's still a super messed up question...
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I would say you are exaggerating but they are the people who invented the henna hair dye. They must really really like the red hair color if they have been using red hair dye for the past 5000 years, yes?
The German was basically every conversation I've ever had with Germans I work with. Just substitute nouns and adjectives but keep the rest of the sentence.
I traveled with a redhead friend in India. She got so many stares! We were also the highlight of some school-aged kids on a field trip, “oooh look,Americans!”
It’s crazy how the Anglosphere is particularly relentless towards redheads. My sister is a redhead, we grew up in Quebec and I remember when we were kids, the Anglophones used to rip on her for that saying she had no soul and such, yet the french speakers were very "meh" about the whole deal, like it wasnt even a thing. They’d rip on you for other things of course, but being ginger wasnt one of them lol
All of Europe, but particularly Anglo-Saxons, have a very long history of burning people at the stake simply for having red hair. Germany alone burned 45,000 redheads at the stake in the 15th century. The persecution of redheads is deep and long running.
McKrankie Clan 😂🤣 I wish there were more ginger redheads around me 😢👩🦰🇲🇽 it's the most elusive human gene, we need more ginger representation (my 90s cartoons were full of them, in various degrees of acceptance of course 😅)
I'm Ginger, My kids are not but my daughter does have a little red tint to her hair. I was the only red head in my family too, My parents and siblings are all blonde. My brother and sister came out as Toe heads. I came out with bright reddish Orange pumpkin peach fuzz.
Nova Scotian here. That made me laugh. Not a red head (except a little tinge in my beard) but it is common enough to see around here with all the Scottish heritage
Loved it as an Aussie that cackle was 100% if I want to make fun of Aussie’s I definitely use the very nasal accent, thankfully I don’t talk like that, you have such a great ear and talent for accents. I’m a partial ranga (orangutan ) and so white I can blind people with my legs in shorts. I have been to Scotland 3 times, love the place and the people, in my experience the Scots I met have all been hilarious, and friendly as. Thanks for the laughs.
As a first generation Scottish/English redhead, I can assure you that I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been asked … “Does the carpet match the drapes?” And not only men asking that disgusting question. As far as I know, no other hair coloured women are asked this … humans are weird! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
Can confirm the Albania one, just visited with my sister whose a redhead and she got a lot of stares. Beautiful country and very friendly people, I want to visit again.
This was way more hilarious than anticipated. Albania, Germany and Poland's reactions are my favorite! As an American, I can confirm that Red Hair is GORGEOUS!
As a Pole, in my class of circa 20 kids, there was 1 blonde girl and 1 blond guy. No redheads. The only redhead in my hometown I knew was the blonde girl's younger sister.
@@ic8537 It's the classic 'poles are religious' stereotype. Honestly, it annoys me. It's as if people can't think of anything else to say about this country.
@@ic8537 Red hair is not common in Poland but it's not like it doesn't exist here. Some people have it naturaly, some people dye their hair that color. My mum was a red head as a child (her hair got more brown-ish with age) and she got bullied for that by other children, but reaction from film is not accurate. There are stupid jokes though that "red heads have no soul" or "you can't trust them" As a kid you hear a lot of jokes like that directed at people of variuos hair color for example "blonds are stupid" etc. It stays as jokes though and I don't think that people believe any of that nowadays...
In Italy they say the blondes come from the North, the Brunettes come from the South and the Redheads come from the drugstore...another cracking video!
@@andrewkash7273 Also in NE Turkey there are natural red-haired people. Mainly in Lazi and hemsin peoples. And in Georgia, i visited Pankisi Gorge where the Chechens live. There were some guys there with very dark reddish beards. This is a common phenomenon amongst Chechens.
@@andrewkash7273 that's not that weird, remember that parts of italy were invaded by germanics who then settled there and assimiliated. Especially in the north and to some extent, in the middle part.
My grandmother had red hair and was bullied mercilessly for it. Even in her old age that affected her when she thought about it. So yeah, the Aussie one is sadly true.
Italian here. My mum is ginger and she was bullied too for her hair when she was in school. But times have changed and nowadays I'd say it's considered a pretty and desirable colour. I've heard lots of people say they have a weakness for red heads.
Me too, was terrible at school and then beaten up after school by mobs of kids for having red hair. Even now as an adult, constant work jokes that I laugh off but kinda over hearing it. All the same material, Ginga, Ranga, Blue, Ginger, Fanta pants, tampon, fire truck, no soul. 42 years and it never ends.
Omg as a Turk, this is so true. My favorite hair color has always been scarlett/ginger from childhood. My favorite disney princess was Ariel because she was a redhead. (Then merida because she was also a redhead, and i have curly hair so she had that too.) My mother was the same too!
The pubes thing is so true for the UK, I was asked this from the age of 10/11 often from much older people. Unsurprisingly I had no pubes at this point!
when I moved to a new school and had no friends, this red head kid was so kind to me, now everytime i see someone with red hair, i automatically think they are protective and kind
Living in Canada all my life I only ever got compliments. Except from my cousin who always called me rusty. Well, then some years later he had a daughter and she had red hair. I guess he must have found a way to love it by now hahahaha
I'm from Germany, part Polish and I honestly think that you're gorgeous with your light skin and ginger hair. 🙂 I would never cross myself and spit out when a red head crosses my way.
As an American I can confirm that we do love potato salad. Oh, and yes, that’s how we all react to red hair. Or I do, anyway, and I’m practically everyone here.
I can't believe there are so many stereotypes about ginger heads. Yes I am Turkish and I love it 😅 It's so rare in our country. I always admired them and wished to be born with that hair color ♥️
As a ginger American it’s actually so true because almost every time I go out someone stops and talks about my hair but they talk about my sisters even more because she has red hair too but hers is curly. And another time I was with my mom in the grocery store and there was a lady smiling at us for wayyy too long and we both knew she was gonna talk about my hair
I’m Brazilian and have a French husband. Both reactions are very accurate! In Brazil people will find her red hair and blue eyes extremely attractive. My French husband thinks that being redhead is the ugliest thing in the world and that they stink. His biggest fear would be to have redhead children. And most French and Belgian people think like that. I don’t know why …
Considering the stereotypes that French people don't shower and their acceptance of pedophilia in France I wouldn't be expressing such opinions if I was him.
@@joaoneves6009Ah, pretty sure that reputation comes from the 40's and WWII, when there was no running water... I can assure you that this situation changed many decades ago, and that the French do shower every day and use deodorant 😂
I'm not just a South American but what a friend calls a crypto-redhead: I was auburn-haired as a young kid, but now you won't notice unless either I am standing under very, very bright sunlight or you are a dermatologist (the skin issues that are correlated with red hair do not go away when your hair goes dark). It's a bit weird, as part of me still feels alluded when people talk about The Ginge Question, even though I know that they can't possibly mean me. (Or can they?)
