[Chris]

I am a 21 year old white male and I’ve had dreadlocks for about three months now. I have received many complements from people of all races about my hair, and the only person who has given me any grief about my hair was a spoiled rotten little 12 year old kid. oh, and my mother, but that’s a different story. In response to the person who said, ‘The white people I have seen with dreadlocks have really nasty hair, and it seems (and smells) like they never wash it.’ There are people with dreads white/black/asian…… who don’t wash their hair, it’s not just the white people. I am white and I wash my hair every 2-3 days and sometimes more. Now for the whole Rasta issue. They were not the first culture to wear dreadlocks. There are records that show that people from Asia and Europe wore their hair in dreadlocks long before Rastafarianism even originated. Even some cavemen wore their hair in dreads. It’s just stupid to get mad at someone for having dreads, because you feel that it’s disrespecting your culture. It would be like me getting mad at someone of another race because they got their hair straightened. I wouldn’t go around saying, ‘oh, they are trying to be white,’ and I wouldn’t say that they are ‘trying a little too hard,’ as someone stated in a previous response. Why does everything have to be about race? I didn’t grow dreads because I wanted to be black. I have dreads as a way of saying I am not afraid of what people think of me and my looks. If someone doesn’t like me because of the way I look then why would I want to associate with that person? I wouldn’t. My friends see me for who I am inside and I treat other people with the same respect.

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Name : Chris, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Presbyterian, Age : 21, City : Corpus Christi, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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