I would have never believed it if I hadn't seen it. Apparently in England they're RABIDLY anti-redhead! Freaky! I got my share of teasing as a kid "I'd rather be dead than red on the head " being a perennial favorite- and as I've gotten older there's always been the oh so tasteful "fire on the head fire in the hole...." Charming. But usually if I was getting made fun of for my red hair it was because kids are evil little troll babies who will find anything that sets you apart and use it against you. I wasn't bullied BECAUSE my hair was red, it was simply a convenient weapon. In England the big thing now is to set up "Kick A Ginger In The Face Day" on Facebook, for example. Wha?
This blurb was posted on Bella Sugar recently:

For some redheaded (or "ginger") kids in the UK, where there's a virulent strain of prejudice against people of the flame-haired persuasion, going to school can be an awful experience. (Bullies, of course, will pick up on any arbitrary feature as a reason to taunt and torture.) Recently, one little girl in England
was forced to leave school after receiving death threats from a bullying clique. She'd been so desperate that she even dyed her beautiful hair blond so that they'd leave her alone. This particular form of discrimination seems pretty foreign to most Americans, but we have our own, albeit less prominent, issues with redhead stereotyping and bullying.
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