White people with dreadlocks who scream “the Celts had locks” every time you get called out. Stop. Just stop.
I’m mixed race and a Celt so here I am to tell you that Celtic people do not traditionally wear locks. Any Celt in the Isles today could tell you that. Most Celts living in North America could tell you that. Most Creole people who are Celtic could tell you that.
Observe.
See this? This is called plaiting. It’s a type of braiding. THIS is the Celtic and Nordic style that ancient Romans mistook for dreadlocks because they were Colonial Imperialists who didn’t see or care about the differences between the cultures they were “conquering.”
If you are Celtic, Nordic or trying to emulate Celtic culture (which is a discussion for another day) and you have dreadlocks all that says to me is that you don’t care about or respect those differences either.
I apologize on behalf of Celts with locks and random white people with locks who try to make this excuse. I can only hope correcting them might make a bit of a difference.
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There were traditional matted hairstyles in Europe, but they were either temporary or extremely unhygienic because our hair doesn’t do that naturally the way Afro-textured hair does.
See also: Polish plaits, elf-locks (unhygenic examples), and gleebs (temporary example; gleebs were matted hairstyles for warriors in battle, covered with mud and worn loose or spiked, OR twists- not locks -worn by nobles and accented with colored yarn)
(also, Romans didn’t precisely mistake it for dreadlocks- they said the Celts had “hair like snakes” because they had long, often braided hair where Roman men wore theirs short. it’s modern white people looking for an excuse to wear locks who intentionally misinterpreted their words. no arguments from me on the imperialism thing, though)
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