In his book "I Say No" Wilkie Collins (1885) wrote "The prejudice against habitual silence, among the lower order of the people, is almost as inveterate as the prejudice against red hair."
In modern-day UK, the words "ginger" या "ginga" are sometimes used to describe red-headed people (and are at times considered insulting),[58] with terms such as "gingerphobia" (hatred towards redheads)[59] या "gingerism" (prejudice against redheads)[60] used द्वारा the British media. In Britain, redheads are also sometimes referred to disparagingly as "carrot tops" and "carrot heads". (The comedian "Carrot Top"...
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