I was teased a lot when I was younger for having red hair and pale skin. Is this a form of racism?
If you have red hair and pale skin, you're a prime target for abuse. Though I wouldn't call it racism, just pettiness.
I remember hearing about a neighbourhood who picked on a family just because the children all have red hair. And guess what? It took place in Eng-er-land, as per usual.
Now that is petty.
I have seen dark people picked on for their skin colour. And I was picked on for mine.When I was a kid it really sucked. Red hair, freckles, pale skin, glasses, short, autistic....no wonder I was picked on.
You can blame the fuckin' Irish for that Renaeden. Stout swilling feckless gobsheens the lot of them!!
Does this mean that Ireland is where red hair is from? Someone told me it is a Scottish trait and I have been asked if my parents are from Scotland. They aren't.
Today, red hair is most commonly found at the western fringes of Europe. It is associated particularly with those in Scotland, Ireland and Wales, and less so in England although there are pockets of red hair occurring in Cornwall and parts of the North Midlands and North East (particularly South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire). This matches the movement of the Brython tribe (native Britons, also known as Celts or Picts) as they were pushed out of England and into the Celtic regions by the Roman conquest of Britain, and also the pattern of Viking settlement in the North of England.
Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads in the world as 13 percent of the population has red hair and approximately 40 percent carries the recessive redhead gene.[6] Ireland has the second highest number of redheads worldwide; as many as 10 percent of the Irish population have ginger, auburn (red-brown) or strawberry blond hair.[7] It is thought that up to 46 percent of the Irish population carries the recessive redhead gene. Red hair reaches frequencies of up to 10 percent in Wales.[8] In England, the county of Cornwall,the far north, near the Scottish border, and the counties of Nottinghamshire and South Yorkshire also have significant proportions of redheads
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair