Comments by "Gordon Graham" (@gordonbgraham) on "Why Dreadlocks Are Trending In Japan" video.

@stankeylips9822 From Ancient Egypt, Germanic tribes, Vikings, Pacific Islanders, early Christians, the Aborigines and the New Guineans as well as the Somali, the Galla, the Maasai, the Ashanti and the Fulani tribes of Africa
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@aquarianmajo Dreads aren't allowed in school in Japan
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Dreads aren't allowed in school in Japan
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@DarkWinter48 So what? Rastafarian Jamaican culture is cool. Except for the Haile Selassie codswallop.
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@chipsweaters Keep in mind Ms. Japan was selected as being representative of ideal Japanese beauty, not once but twice, by a panel of Japanese judges.
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@rhiannn3416 Yes, Japanese high schools and jr high schools have strict dress codes, including not dying or perming one's hair as well as hair length. Most schools don't allow hair past the collar or past the eyebrows for boys.
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@tweetttt7670 Agreed. Wearing a fashionable hairstyle is not disrespectful. If some people take it that way, then that’s on them.
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@czarinajohnson6074 It isn't natural. It's imitation.
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@tweetttt7670 Clearly the reason is fashion. They want to look cool...and they do.
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@tweetttt7670 Yes, you can generalize because those who do things to mock others make a pointed effort to make it known they’re doing so.
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@arijj8629 Yeah, they started wearing their hair differently. They changed the way they wear their hair. They also changed the way they dress in the Meiji Period. They’ve changed the way they eat since they’ve become Westernized. Your point that traditional culture doesn’t change is willfully ignorant
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@czarinajohnson6074 Beyonce dyed her hair blonde and had it straightened
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@arijj8629 Yes, and traditional culture includes language, food, dress etc. Do you think Japanese men still shave the top part of their heads bald as was the tradition up until the Edo period? No...Culture changes, and that includes traditional culture.
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@czarinajohnson6074 Dreads have to be formed...they're not natural. It's a hair style, just as straightening one's hair or dying one's hair is a hair style...dreads require "styling" They're not "natural"...Anybody can wear dreads...Well, not me...I'm bald as a billiard ball.
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@czarinajohnson6074 The hairstyles above are dreadlocks. The model for which are the likes of Bob Marley who is very popular here. Clearly had his locks formed in the Rastafarian manner. I don't need to google natural hairstyles because that's not what is being discussed here. We are referring to those in the video above and whether or not it's OK for them to wear dreads. I say it's entirely up to each individual how she or he wants to wear their hair, and no...they need not be conscious of the origin of such a style of hair or clothing. It's also up to you whether or not to be offended by it. Others mewling like a kitten sucking on a hind teat about "they" "them" "theirs" is just narcissistic piffle. "I...Me...Mine". Their personal choice is not about "you".
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@czarinajohnson6074 They don’t need to know. You WANT them to know. Those are two different things. Japan subsumes other cultures and makes them her own. Buddhism, katakana, kanji, baseball are all aspects of Japanese culture. People have the right to feel however they feel. They don’t have the right to tell others how they should feel. I don’t know where the necktie originated, but I wear one. I don’t know where pants originated but I wear them. We are using technology that is largely produced from unjust forced labor. You don’t seem to have an issue with that. PS I’m looking at a number of Bob Marley photos...those long roundED dreadlocks have most certainly been styled.
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@czarinajohnson6074 Kanji is from China and Katakana is for loanwords that they have subsumed into their lexicon.
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@czarinajohnson6074 カタカナ（Katakana)...not 刀 (katana)
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@czarinajohnson6074 I didn't say the "katana" I said "katakana"
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@czarinajohnson6074 It's also Japanese.
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@arijj8629 Traditional culture includes language, music, food and dress, all of which have changed considerably in Japan.
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@tweetttt7670 People also receive backlash for the backlash
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@JGoh762 Africans in Japan are not all American
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@arijj8629 Culture does change. Language is one of the most prominent markers of culture. Japanese 500 years ago has changed dramatically to become the Japanese of today. English is the same. Shakespeare's English is not the English used today. Culture changes.
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@chipsweaters By "public" who are you referring to...the right wing "netto uyoku"? Is the random violence perpetrated against Asian people primarily by Black Americans indicative of the Black "public"? Or do you hold a double standard vis a vis your definition of the "public"?
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