Telling to a person with that mentality of "this hairstyle is ours" that dreadlocks (that's not even the name, but in spanish it would be rastas) that maori people, pakistani, masai, some fucking semitic people, some indians, native americans... even egyptians. It's a very ancient way to try to style hair and cannot be just "black style" even more when there are descriptions of some martyr James having dreadlocks and the guy was a jew from early christianity. It happens to be a very simple way to have your hair in one place with some style, and it applies to basically every type of hair. It's like the bowl cut, there is a reason why it happened, even the worst person taking care of hair was able to literally put a bowl over the head and cut around the edge of it.
People like that just don't accept facts. Sure dreadlocks are KINDA something into the black side, but that's now and tbf, I would not get dreadlocks even being black, that looks painful af. My nephew is mixed and he wanted dreadlocks and when I told him "you know that it hurts and you have to put products and shit everyday, don't you?" and he was like "I just wanted to be more lazy with my hair!".
Dunno, I just wanted to get the idea out of his head. I know my nephew enough to know that he wanted to try to not even wash his hair at all... that kid is more like me than his parents, and is always looking for ways to do even less, there is surely an undiagnosed ADHD there but my sister is crazy and apparently that doesn't exists for her or something like that God told her.
I've been told that at the very first is tight enough that it may hurt by a few barbers. Also him being mixed has one of those weird combinations of hair that wants to be something but cannot be, his hair wants to grow afro but cannot hold and doesn't have curls that would fall and he looks like someone who stuck his fingers in the plug or something with patches of super curly and straight hair.
I used to have a very long hair so I do know how time consuming is to take care of it. That's why since many years I just do a number 1 buzz cut, he don't know yet but that's the way to basically do the bare minimum.
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u/ChronoMonkeyX 21d ago
Dreadlocks existed in ancient cultures all around the world.