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Japanese school forces students to dye their hair black, regardless of natural colour
- Thread starter Jackpot
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Because it's the natural hair colour of most Japanese people and they value conformity in their society.
This was my first thought too. Surprised no one said it before you did.
The article phrases it like it's a hypothetical. I have to wonder whether they actually would ask a light-haired exchange student to dye their hair.
Jesus what an absurd rule. Fuck these dress codes that try to aggressively beat out even the smallest but of individuality.
Yeah, it's pretty dumb. The teaching staff at the school I worked at while in Japan had a meeting over 1 hour to discuss about a student who dyed their hair brown. The way they were talking you'd think some sort of major disaster had happened, but no...Just hair.
That's sucky. A lot of people are very sensitive to dyes :/
My high school let anything go with hair. It was slogans and pictures on your clothes/binders/backpack/locker that were always under scrutiny, but not in a bad way. They just didn't want naked ladies and swastikas everywhere.
My high school let anything go with hair. It was slogans and pictures on your clothes/binders/backpack/locker that were always under scrutiny, but not in a bad way. They just didn't want naked ladies and swastikas everywhere.
I get wanting conformity, but if it's the natural hair colour, forcing students to dye their hair just seems cruel :S
Humm, I would say that most japanese associate high-schoolers that dye their hair to be delinquent/slacker/rebels what have you. I'm not saying that it's true. That's why she had to prove that was her natural hair color.
You mean to tell me anime is lying?
Funny thing is, Bleach of all things made this into a minor character detail. Ichigo and Orihime being natural redheads got them flak because people thought not having 'normal' hair indicated they were delinquents.
Sadly, shame to see the mindset has apparently gotten worse in some parts.
I mean, the reason people who dye their hair are considered rebels is because of the societal expectation of conformity
Many traditional countries, including some Asian countries are pretty culturally conformist. Western countries( not all I assume and in different varying degrees) are individualistic, in part that includes personal expression.
It's a plan to prevent anime protagonists to come into existence.You mean to tell me anime is lying?
But seriously, that's incredibly shitty.
This isn't that uncommon, unfortunately. School rules often state "hair must be black" as a way to ban hair dying, since they often assume everyone has the same jet black hair. Being the same is important in Japan. Definitely seeing a much bigger backlash to it in recent years, so hopefully it will be a thing of the past before too long.
I didn't say I agree with the assumption nor that all japanese believe that nonsense.
Sorry. Somehow my eyes skipped right over your second sentence.
My bad.
So many kids in elementary school have naturally brown hair where I am. I've heard of this sort of thing happening by mistake, but it's disgusting that the school thinks it has the right to force it black.
As previosly stated this mostly about conformity. That seem to be one of reason most Japanese fictional characters have wild hairstyle and colors. It also seem to be one of the main contributor to a lot of Japan's social problems. But that just from a outsiders view.
I don't imagine that will happen because most places will avoid hiring anyone with dyed hair.
