When you search ‘why do gingers’ on Google, autocomplete comes up with some imaginative suggestions – worryingly, this is what people ask for the most when it comes to redheads.
‘Why do gingers smell?’
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‘Why do gingers get bullied?’
‘Why do gingers burn?’
‘Why do gingers exist?’ (particularly harsh).
But the one that caught my attention was ‘Why do gingers have no souls?’
Whenever I dyed my hair ginger as a student – because I thought it looked pretty – I’d be subject to the comeback ‘Yeah but you’re ginger, you have no soul’.
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Where on earth does this ridiculous statement come from?
Some say that the myth popped up in England and parts of the US, as an anti-Irish sentiment.
Others attribute the claim to a South Park episode where Cartman gives a hate speech against gingers, describing them as being disgusting, inhuman, unable to survive in the sunlight and having no souls.
This led to a YouTube user going by the handle CopperCab posting a video against the South Park episode and arguing in defence of gingers.
During the Middle Ages, a child born with red hair was thought to have been conceived during ‘unclean’ sex, or during menstruation.
In ancient Egypt, redheaded men were sometimes burned alive as a sacrifice to the gods.
Redheads were particularly persecuted during the witch trials in Europe between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries, as the colour was linked to the devil and the pale skin most redheads have was seen as deathly and unnatural.
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Unfortunately, prejudices from centuries ago are still around today, with South Park most likely having an impact on the myths being allowed continual growth.
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As for the other Google autocomplete questions – gingers exist for the same reason you do, they obviously don’t smell any different to other people, they’re probably prone to burning more in the sun because of their pale skin, and it’s pretty clear they get bullied because of all the ancient prejudices still being used against them.
In other words, stop bullying redheads. It’s time to go and kiss a ginger.
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