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Igel

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13. My understanding is that ginger-prejudice goes along

Reply to Collimator (Reply #7)

Sat Oct 19, 2019, 01:23 PM

Oct 2019

with anti-Scot animus. They were the wild northerners, behind and backwards with their Pictish ways.

Imagine if US Southerners disproportionately had green eyes. We'd come to associate green eyes with Confederate sympathies. It's a shortcut in thinking.

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Blacks, too, judge each other by the color of their skin. How sick is that? [View all] mia Oct 2019 OP

Whites do the same. Buckeye_Democrat Oct 2019 #1

Unfortunately this is true. dewsgirl Oct 2019 #2

the red headed step child, as Paul Begala would say appalachiablue Oct 2019 #3

I would have given anything to have red hair and light colored eyes! TruckFump Oct 2019 #8

Are you a woman, perchance? Buckeye_Democrat Oct 2019 #9

It's admired in girls DavidDvorkin Oct 2019 #11

Yes, I am female. TruckFump Oct 2019 #14

The tv show Rebl2 Oct 2019 #4

I was aware of that nonsense in America, but she experienced it in Kenya. Buckeye_Democrat Oct 2019 #6

We often think that those we don't know are better or worse than those we don't know. Igel Oct 2019 #12

Frank Joins the Club PSPS Oct 2019 #5

This is also an issue in India. Collimator Oct 2019 #7

My understanding is that ginger-prejudice goes along Igel Oct 2019 #13

Never heard that about wild 'Northeners,' interesting. But there's appalachiablue Oct 2019 #15

I've encountered that among Punjabis, biased against 'southern, appalachiablue Oct 2019 #16

India is the most racist country in the world. Mosby Oct 2019 #17

There was a Spike Lee movie about how blacks segregated by skin color called school daze kimbutgar Oct 2019 #10

my uncle and great grandma were both from Norway EricaGriswoldAuthor Oct 2019 #18

What an intelligent, beautiful & accomplished woman Lupita is appalachiablue Oct 2019 #19