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Japanese school forces students to dye their hair black, regardless of natural colour
- Thread starter Jackpot
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Wow. That's shocking.
Growing up in the UK the school didn't care if you dyed your hair. It feels like an unesscessary invasion into someone's life to dictate that.
Ensuring that your shirt was tucked in and your tie was tied properly was all they really enforced.
Growing up in the UK the school didn't care if you dyed your hair. It feels like an unesscessary invasion into someone's life to dictate that.
Ensuring that your shirt was tucked in and your tie was tied properly was all they really enforced.
I went to a school in Canada in the 90s that had a weird obsession with demanding normal hair colour too. No one was allowed to dye at all.
Obviously denying natural hair colors is a bit different. But it really sounds like the same thinking applied to a school in Japan where normal = black and taken to a crazy end point.
Obviously denying natural hair colors is a bit different. But it really sounds like the same thinking applied to a school in Japan where normal = black and taken to a crazy end point.
is the old "if you have a different hair color that means you dyed it that means your a delinquent" sort of thing? Or is it just the more annoying "everybody should look the same and not stand out" BS
It's a bit of both. But more "everyone needs to look the same"
well, in high school a friend of mine was an exchange student in tokyo. the teachers showed her a list of acceptable darker hair colours she would be allowed to have b/c she is a natural blonde.
from dark brown to black was okay.
but that was in...2007?2008?
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Gosh I wonder which one of these people is the main character.You mean to tell me anime is lying?
Yeesh, that's really dumb. Like, I could understand them trying to crack down on unnatural colors (still think any color should be allowed IMO) but this is ridiculous.
As others have said, sadly this doesn't seem too far out there for japan.
I really like a lot of things coming from japan but they have so many issues that need to be solved all around their social structures, be it work or school.
I really hope that the new generation (which is already another problem in itself) can change some of the things going on.
Anyways good for the girl actually going against such shitty practices, usually stuff like that never gets called out in japan because nobody wants to piss other people off or leave a negative impression
I really like a lot of things coming from japan but they have so many issues that need to be solved all around their social structures, be it work or school.
I really hope that the new generation (which is already another problem in itself) can change some of the things going on.
Anyways good for the girl actually going against such shitty practices, usually stuff like that never gets called out in japan because nobody wants to piss other people off or leave a negative impression
The same thing happened to my brother in law when he was in high school. He had dyed his hair and also did some stuff that got him in trouble, just basic juvenile delinquency. He was in a public high school in Chiba and they kicked him out. He ended up enrolling in a private high school (which are easier to get into) in Tokyo and graduated there.
When I was teaching English in Japan, at a junior high school I was at, the teachers had cans of black hairspray they would use on a couple of the "problem" students that would come to school with dyed hair.
When I was teaching English in Japan, at a junior high school I was at, the teachers had cans of black hairspray they would use on a couple of the "problem" students that would come to school with dyed hair.
I remember this being casually brought up in Persona 5. Ryuji refused to dye his hair black or unblonde it or whatever.
It's a really tiny detail that people probably wouldn't remember.
It's one thing to not allow people to dye their hair, it's another thing entirely to force them to do it. As mentioned in the article, dye isn't exactly good for your hair (or for your scalp if you get it there).
Yeah, it was pretty crazy to see the teachers basically drag the student into the teachers room and go to down on his dyed hair with the spray. I think they even shaves his head once. I was pretty shocked to see that happen; teachers shouldn't be doing that kind of thing to students. Of course, being an English "teacher," I wasn't really in a position to do anything.
Yeah, I've read a bunch of manga where a character brings up being pressured by the school to dye their hair black, even if it's naturally lighter
Parts of Japanese culture I love, but the part of the culture as described in the article makes me glad I wasn't born there.