BigTed
Dickens
TanaMa
Sorry my comment raised such ire but I can assure you I am definitely NOT racist, it was meant as a genuine query. Signs of the times when a normal comment is immediately put into a convenient box. I don't know the woman so can't say I like or dislike her so can't see why I am supposed to be saying otherwise.
I genuinely don't get your point.
Women (and some men) from different backgrounds / heritage have always played around with hair colour and hair styles. There's one - a celebrity whose name I can't remember - who dyes her hair blond, an sometimes pink, but is fiercely proud of her black heritage.
And we borrow from their cultures too, think of 'dreadlocks'. We curl our hair, we straighten it, sometimes cut it all off in a 'crew' cut, then allow it to grow long again.
A friend of mine paints her hands with henna with a lovely lacey pattern sometimes, but it hasn't made her any less British.
What you're implying is that if someone is proud of their heritage they should stick to their 'natural' look / locks as 'proof' which seems pretty weird to me. Women love fashion, we love the fact that we can do fantastic things with our hair and our make-up. My 14 year old grandson wears his hair in a topknot bun - a style worn by men in Ancient China... he lives in South Africa, and is a dedicated Anglophile.
Is there any logical reason why Meghan shouldn't do what millions of other women do - from all over the world?
I'm not accusing you of being racist - I simply think it's a strange observation. Forgetting for a moment all the hooha surrounding her and Harry - she looks lovely with her hair styled the way it is... and probably knows it suits her. So why on earth not wear it as she does?You differentiate between “we” and “they” …. “We borrow from their cultures..”
and earlier in your post “ there’s one [sic] - a celebrity ….who dyes her hair blond …”
You may not realise the fundamental underlying racism in what you’ve said?
“We” to me is all of us! Not a “we” and “they”.
... well, that's your take.
I'm talking about a demographic - those with mixed heritage who care about their roots. As opposed to those who don't or aren't bothered.
If you want to highlight something specific that affects certain groups of people, but not others, it's not unusual to refer to the groups as "they".
If, for example, I wanted to mention how certain issues affected children, or young working people, or pensioners, and said something along the lines of "they are more disadvantaged by the rising cost of living"... would you have picked me up on my choice of the word, they?
I know that feeling
and it was never like this.