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Who can do the math? ... if roughly 50% of the world's population is female... ... if, say, 2% of the world's population has red hair.... ... and if another 2% the world's population qualifies for membership in Mensa... What percentage of the world´s population would be comprised by redhead female Mensans (and stretching to 6 feet as well!!)... ?? |
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What do redheads have that the rest of us don’t? Plenty, says scientists. |
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from the Globe and Mail, Wednesday, 1 September, 1993 |
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Redheads “are deemed to be the emotional slaves of our colouring as no other group,” writes redheaded Nicola Tyrer in the Daily Telegraph; short temper and sexual fieriness are attributed to them. |
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In France, to be redheaded is thought to be a fate so dire that some women have formed a Proud to be Red association. |
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In Denmark, it is an honour to have a redheaded child. |
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In Corsica, if you pass one in the street, you spit and turn around. |
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In Poland, “if you pass three red-heads you'll win the state lottery,” |
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Harvard dermatologist Madhu Pathak calls redheads “three-time losers” because their red pigment is an inadequate filter of sunlight and their skin is more susceptible to sunburn, skin cancer and wrinkling with age. |
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There are two kinds of redhead, says Mary Spillane, managing director of British image consultants Colour Me Beautiful. There’s “the autumn type with hazel eyes,” and the Celtic type with translucent skin, light eyes and the carrot top -- the leprechaun redness “that people have trouble with.” |
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Redheads have always been thought untrustworthy. As a 17th-century Frenchman observed, “Judas, it is said, was red-haired.” |
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Superstitions it’s lucky to rub your hand on a redhead’s head; bees sting redheads more readily. The Egyptians regarded the colour as so unlucky that they had a ceremony in which they burned red-headed maidens alive to wipe out the tint, says author Claudie De Lys. |
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Percentages of redheads in different countries range from single digits to a fraction of one percent -- a recent estimate for France is 0.03 % of its population. (A 1977 estimate for North America is 4%.) Redheads generally are more numerous in northern latitudes, but also turn up among Hungarians, Egyptians, Israelis and certain Nigerian tribes. |
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