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Today, red hair is most commonly found at the northern and western fringes of Europe; it is associated particularly with the people located in the British Isles (although Victorian era ethnographers claimed that the Udmurt people of the Volga were "the most red-headed men in the world").[10] Redheads are common among Germanic and Celtic peoples.

Redheads constitute approximately 4% of the European population.[11] Scotland has the highest proportion of redheads; 13% of the population has red hair and approximately 40% carries the recessive redhead gene.[12] Ireland has the सेकंड highest...

Not long ago, newspapers and magazines reported that, द्वारा the end of the century, redheads, of whom I am one, will be extinct. Gone. Kaput. Since then, other scientists have raised doubts about the great redhead extinction theory, especially since the research was conducted द्वारा the ऑक्सफोर्ड Hair Foundation—which is funded द्वारा Procter & Gamble, which manufactures hair dye. Still, who can say for sure who is right? I'm sure that, back in their day, the डायनासोर were pretty smug too.

Where will we be without people like Danny Bonaduce? Bad example. How about Dwight Eisenhower? Ike was a redhead....

Compared to blondes या brunettes, redheads are और than twice as likely to avoid going to the dentist—and they may have good reason. The same genetic variant that explains their fiery locks also makes redheads resistant to local anesthesia, such as Novocaine, explaining their dread of dental procedures, विश्वविद्यालय of Louisville researchers reported in Journal of the American Dental Association.

In fact, redheads may need 20 percent और anesthesia, researchers from the same center reported in an earlier study, in which women with bright red hair were compared to those with dark tresses. And...

A common belief about redheads is that they have fiery tempers and sharp tongues. In Anne of Green Gables, a character says of Anne Shirley, the redheaded heroine, that "her temper matches her hair", while in The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield remarks that "People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie [his dead brother] never did, and he had very red hair."

During the early stages of modern medicine, red hair was thought to be a sign of a sanguine temperament.[50] In the Indian medicinal practice of Ayurveda, redheads are seen as most likely to have a Pitta temperament....

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"...