Let's trim our hair in accordance with the socialist lifestyle
en.wikipedia.org
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IE dreads and afro styles.
It's weird to me that people get dictatorial about hair (but understandable in the sense that people will control what they feel they can to assert their dominance; petty power plays are rife in human society) but it doesn't seem racist.
Skinheads and mohawks are banned because they are strongly associated with violence and gang activity. Are you saying it's fine to associate traditional hairstyles of those of African heritage with violence and gang activity?
However, there is a genuine link between skinheads and violence—including neo-Nazism. The only link between hairstyles traditional to those of African descent and violence is racism and stereotyping.
True, but skinheads started as movement heavily influenced by Jamaicans and Jamaican music. The Nazi thing came later, but there have always been non-Nazi skinhead subgroups, like SHARPS (Skinheads against racial prejudice).
A girlfriend of mine in college in the 90s was a Jewish skinhead at the time.
Wikipedia:
In the earlier stages of the movement, a considerable overlap existed between early skinhead subculture, mod subculture, and the rude boy subculture found among Jamaican British and Jamaican immigrant youth, as these three groups interacted and fraternized with each other within the same working class and poor neighbourhoods in Britain.[2] As skinheads adopted elements of mod subculture and Jamaican British and Jamaican immigrant rude boy subculture, both first and second generation skins were influenced by the heavy, repetitive rhythms of dub and ska, as well as rocksteady, reggae, bluebeat, and African-American soul music.[2][3][4]
wrt dreds, they're not just uncut are they, I've seen plenty of light-skinned people with dreds. They're a sort of loose matting? Dreds in the UK are associated with "crusties", hippy eco-activists.
Mohicans, mohawks if you like, were associated with punk many years ago but there's no connection now AFAICT, and whats wrong with punk?
For those of you not from Brumingham Summer Lane was the really rough area - think the street that had the Garrison pub in the first season of peaky blinders.
I can remember hearing my grandparents mention that the police dint go there in threes they went in platoon strength.
"Brum" is short for "Brummagem", nobody calls it "Brumingham".
And it continued beyond then with things like natural hair vs powdered wigs as political statements.
There were a dizzying number of associations in the 20th century alone.
This was, and (maybe) still is, a wisdom in Thailand, but for different reasons.
I was in high school in ~2002. My knowledge could be outdated. I hope they have changed this dogma.
Thailand enforced certain hairstyles on students until the end of highschool. For male, it looked similar what is shown in the post. Probably even uglier.
(Not all schools enforced it strictly. Some, especially private schools, let their students to have a better hairstyle.)
Anyway, we believed that these superficial decorations would make students being distracted from studying. Students would focus purely on look and etc. It's a "tradition".
Obviously, self-esteem was not a thing to consider back then.
This hairstyle rule turned good teachers into hair polices. Teachers were obsessed with whether your hair was too long. Long hair became the sign of disrespect.
When the movie, Speed, came out, Keanu Reeves had the buzzcut hairstyle which was shorter than what Thailand enforced. Many students thought "well, it's shorter and looks cooler. It should be fine". It turned out that cutting your hair shorter than what was enforced was also wrong.
One funny tidbit: I've learned a valuable lesson that Buzzcut in US is called Skinhead in Thailand. I told several people at work that I would get a skinhead. People looked freaked out a bit because skinhead was associated with something really really bad; I don't remember what. Then, one friend kindly pointed out that what I wanted was a buzzcut.
Edit: This article (https://www.wsj.com/articles/shear-follicle-thai-students-re...) captures the situation pretty well. And there's a photo inside which is accurate
The neonazi invasion happened around when both tended to show up in the same discussions. More people know about punks than skinheads, so I used one to give context to the other. The recent movie about the late '90s punk scene, Bomb City, even had a skinhead with an anti-Nazi jacket.
The coach of the Argentinian National Team in the early '90s, Daniel Passarella, at some point denied NT call-ups for Real Madrid player Redondo because of the latter's hairstyle. Which was a shame because Redondo was a hell of a player in his prime.
Turns out it’s its own verb tense! It’s called the “volitional” and you use it when you want to emphasize that you want to do something, typically with the person you’re speaking to. The best way to render it in English is by using “let’s” (“let’s go eat”).
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/complete/desire_volitio...
“Eat dinner” + “ba” = “let’s eat dinner?”
먹다 (to eat) + 자 = 먹자 (let's eat)
However for questions, 먹을까? (shall we eat?) and 먹을래? (want to have a bite from this thing I have?) are appropriate.
Wikipedia on hortatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortative
It sounds perfectly normal and commonplace to me (British).
- Let's see...
- Oh yes, let's!
- Uh, no, let's not.
- Let's think of another example...
- Let's stop there.
Google Ngram Viewer does put it at about 8x more common (contemporarily) in British English than American English though, and with a shorter history in the latter.
https://legendsoflocalization.com/japans-mysterious-love-of-...
That really is weird/interesting!
It shouldn't be a command "do this...!" as if coming from a dictator, but a request to work together as if coming from a worker comrade. Because it is a Democracy. It's right in the name -- DPRK ;-)
What I took away from this is some high up NK official is bald ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_hair_in_Singapore
https://boingboing.net/2013/04/26/males-with-long-hair-will-...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-27038723
Turns out there was quite the backstory behind it. Do as I say, not as I do, and all that.
Heh, reminds me of Lysenkoism. What is it with socialists and their outright denial of science?
Maybe the authoritarian regime that run NK wants to control the way people look for various reasons: So the people don't culturally identify with other societies, so they don't spend time messing with more complicated styles (hair and other) because they consider it a waste of resources, so the people don't realize that the mere fact that outsiders can spend resources on more elaborate styles is a product of those societies being better off, that they want the people to internalize a shared society through uniformity, etc, etc, etc.
... and that in order to achieve those means, they will say anything regardless of truth, evidence, etc, and will punish dissent so that the truth doesn't matter (mostly).
This could be a Black Mirror episode.
Ideally we could move beyond a world of judging people based on their haircut and dress code but I don't think the western world is much better than North Korea.
And let’s not pretend there isn’t a lot of pressure to look a certain way to be successful in at least some careers in democratic countries.
From the article. Also, this comparison is like saying that Soviet Russia producing propaganda was a sign that the gulags didn't work.
reminds me of the GSElevator tweet[1]
#1: Haircuts are the ultimate economic indicator. In bad times, it's every 8 weeks. In good, it's every 6. #2: I go every 3 weeks.
thus once again proving that communist countries are more prosperous than rotten capitalist economies where even top bankers only cut their hair once a month.
[1] https://twitter.com/gselevator/status/255383764027457536
Much better to call it something inspiring and cosmopolitan like "Vogue".
Or even "Cosmopolitan."
There's a scene in "The Devil Wears Prada" that tries to convey this process:
"You think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select… I don’t know… that lumpy blue sweater, for instance because you’re trying to tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back. But what you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise. It’s not lapis. It’s actually cerulean. And you’re also blithely unaware of the fact that in 2002, Oscar de la Renta did a collection of cerulean gowns. And then I think it was Yves Saint Laurent… wasn’t it who showed cerulean military jackets? I think we need a jacket here. And then cerulean quickly showed up in the collections of eight different designers. And then it, uh, filtered down through the department stores and then trickled on down into some tragic Casual Corner where you, no doubt, fished it out of some clearance bin. However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff."
Either their cosmetic styling are under personal control or it isn't - and any other restrictions should be incidental and justified. Heavy machinery operation calling for bound long hair is justifiable for instance.
Your hair is not this important. Also I reject the notion that consent-based sex and the legalisation of rape are at opposite ends of the spectrum of options for regulating sex in a society.
Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor, a chemical that is produced by the brain to modulate plasticity during learning, seems to potentiate the effects of androgens on hair loss (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21729031), i.e. accelerating balding in people who will eventually go bald. (This isn’t just theoretical, either—drugs which increase BDNF are reported to cause hair loss/balding in some people, presumably the ones who would eventually bald.)
So, in a very hand-wavy way, you could hypothesize that people who go bald earlier in life, are producing a lot of BDNF, and therefore are doing a lot of cognitive restructuring, and maybe therefore are getting “smarter” in some sense.