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As a ‘redhead’ myself, I am often bemused at what I consider, the prejudice within our society of the ‘unfortunate’ few who were blessed with lovely auburn locks.

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As a child I initially didn’t think much about it, but I do remember getting called ‘Carrot-Top’ at primary school and me pointing out that carrot tops were in fact green. As I grew older, particularly during my awkward teenage years, I soon realised that what had begun as childish teasing had rapidly developed into a never-ending torrent of abuse (goodnatured or no), ignorant generalisations and in many places full on prejudice: “watch out - redheads have a fiery temper” “You can’t do that because you are a ginger”, “All gingers are ugly”, “I’d never date a ginger” and so on.

This would be further compounded when some of these remarks would prove true, for example; sunbathing or the inability to slip into a crowd. However if I ever bring up the fact that I have felt, many times in my life, discriminated against because of my hair colour, people invariably scoff and continue to poke fun. However as far as I concerned this continued mocking of red-haired people is nothing less than socially acceptable racism.

Which brings me to the following video on the BBC website - an exhibition celebrating the beauty of ‘GINGER’. Hoorah!

However, try watching it but replacing every occurrence of the word ginger with the word you get when you rearrange the first and third letter of the word ‘ginger’.

Not so funny is it…