The Drawbacks:
- "Hiding behind your hair and hoping nobody will recognize you" is never an option.
- Wearing red makes you look like an apple.
- You are always the most pale person around.
- You are never forgiven for being normal.
- You are constantly being ask if you dye your hair.
- No mater how good you are at imitating Harry Potter, you always end up looking like Ron Weasley.
- You are forever being compared with Pippi Longstocking/carrots/random Scottish people (no offence to Scottish).
- You always stand out in the crowd.
- Gingerism and anti-ginger jokes. 'Nuff said.
And Not-So-Much-Drawbacks:
- Your friends have no problem finding you.
- You look rediculously good in blue or green.
- With fake teeth and dark wig, you can be the most convincing vampire around for Halloween.
- You are forgiven for being eccentric.
- You get to say no to a question whether "you dye your hair" and give the I-will-kill-you-for-thinking-am-a-brunette look.
- It is easier to get a job as an actor, as there are always more red-haired characters than actors.
- Catching an eye of another redhead and getting an encouraging smile.
- You always stand out in the crowd.
- Red for a hair colour is freakin' awesome. 'Nuff said.
- "Hiding behind your hair and hoping nobody will recognize you" is never an option.
- Wearing red makes you look like an apple.
- You are always the most pale person around.
- You are never forgiven for being normal.
- You are constantly being ask if you dye your hair.
- No mater how good you are at imitating Harry Potter, you always end up looking like Ron Weasley.
- You are forever being compared with Pippi Longstocking/carrots/random Scottish people (no offence to Scottish).
- You always stand out in the crowd.
- Gingerism and anti-ginger jokes. 'Nuff said.
And Not-So-Much-Drawbacks:
- Your friends have no problem finding you.
- You look rediculously good in blue or green.
- With fake teeth and dark wig, you can be the most convincing vampire around for Halloween.
- You are forgiven for being eccentric.
- You get to say no to a question whether "you dye your hair" and give the I-will-kill-you-for-thinking-am-a-brunette look.
- It is easier to get a job as an actor, as there are always more red-haired characters than actors.
- Catching an eye of another redhead and getting an encouraging smile.
- You always stand out in the crowd.
- Red for a hair colour is freakin' awesome. 'Nuff said.
The term ang mo (Chinese: 红毛; pinyin: hóng máo; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: âng-mo͘) in Hokkien (Min Nan) Chinese means "red-haired",[79] and is used in Malaysia and Singapore to refer to English people. The epithet is sometimes rendered as ang mo kui (红毛鬼) meaning "red-haired devil", similar to the Cantonese term gweilo ("foreign devil"). Thus it is viewed as racist and derogatory by some people.[80] Others, however, maintain it is acceptable.[81] Despite this ambiguity, it is a widely used term. It appears, for instance, in Singaporean newspapers such as The Straits Times,[82] and in television programmes and films.
The Chinese characters for ang mo are the same as those in the historical Japanese term Kōmō (紅毛), which was used during the Edo period (1603–1868) as an epithet for Dutch or Northern European people. It primarily referred to Dutch traders who were the only Europeans allowed to trade with Japan during Sakoku, its 200-year period of isolation.[83]
The Chinese characters for ang mo are the same as those in the historical Japanese term Kōmō (紅毛), which was used during the Edo period (1603–1868) as an epithet for Dutch or Northern European people. It primarily referred to Dutch traders who were the only Europeans allowed to trade with Japan during Sakoku, its 200-year period of isolation.[83]