World Day of the Reds

Many people do not understand why it was necessary to establish a holiday of redheads. After all, with the same success you can come up with a day of blondes or brunettes. But if we read historical books, we learn that often people who have a red hair color did not live very sweetly. In any crowd, they immediately catch your eye, standing out for their bright, unconventional appearance. Most of the people around him treat them calmly, but there are also those who look at the redhead with distrust, enmity, and suspect witchcraft forces in him.

Opponents may object. They will say that now everyone is looking at such prejudices with laughter, and a person with any color of hair or skin can make a good career in a civilized country without encountering hostility at the household level. Gone are the gloomy Middle Ages, when people were burned to the most stupid occasion or denunciation, when the ruthless Spanish Inquisition could declare a woman with red hair as a witch and, after torturing, drag the poor creature to the fire. At the party, the red-haired girl is admired, and many are specially painted to attract attention.

But sociologists argue that not everything is so good, there are insulting cases that can be called true discrimination. At the preliminary job interviews, contestants with natural red hair are screened out almost seven times more often than their competitors. Many of us also noticed that red people in some companies feel like white crows in a gray feathered, one-sided pack.

Relevance of the holiday

In Northern Europe and Scandinavia, the number of redheads is quite large. The total number of such people varies from 13% in Ireland and Scotland and to 5% in the Scandinavian countries. But the farther to the south, this figure is reduced to an insignificant one percent. The International Day of the Reds was a kind of protest of people with a special natural color of hair. But he appeared by chance, through the fault of the artist Rovenhorst of the Netherlands. He announced a contest to find red models, which, in his opinion, there should be very little in this country. But instead of fifteen girls, one hundred and fifty beauties with fiery hair came to him.

Red liked to get together, and already in 2007, the town of Breda attracted the attention of journalists. Here gathered 800 red people who revived the streets, they seemed to bring a piece of sunshine to the streets. So, without a pointer from above, the Day of the Reds appeared in Holland. On it there were not only women, but also children, old men, men. This event has become international, because at its will the next year brought together twice as many people, bringing together representatives from 15 countries. If you are interested in this merry holiday of the Day of the Reds, then know that the date of its holding usually falls at the beginning of September. In 2014, he is scheduled to spend from 5 to 7 of the first month of autumn.