Much of the hair on sale comes from small agents who tour villages in India, China, and eastern Europe, offering poverty-stricken women small payments to part with their hair. As one importer, based in Ukraine, told the New York Times recently: "They are not doing it for fun. Usually only people who have temporary financial difficulties in depressed regions sell their hair." More worryingly, back in 2006, the Observer reported that in India some husbands were forcing their wives into selling their hair, slum children were being tricked into having their heads shaved in exchange for toys, and in one case a gang stole a woman's hair, holding her down and cutting it off. When Victoria Beckham said in 2003 that her "extensions come from Russian prisoners, so I've got Russian cell block H on my head", she may have been joking, but it was not long until the Moscow Centre for Prison Reform admitted it was possible: warders were forcibly shaving and selling the hair of prisoners.
It is racist because she's saying to the boy that his sisters grow their hair and sell it, and it's playing on a stereotype.
I watched a documentary that a Popstar of yester-years called Jamelia did. She went over to India and said in this documentary that a lot of hair used for extensions comes from Asia, especially India.
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Rihanna's comment was racist and if not racist, then very insensitive.
But do I think she's a racist person?
No I don't...I think she has her moments.
Not that much, but if this was Gaga she would be crucified for it
people keep saying stuff like this and keep victimizing gaga but she puts herself out there as some sort of hero and champion of people who are bullied and judged. THAT'S why she would be "crucified" for it if she said something like this - because it would be massively hypocritical. rihanna doesn't consider herself a role model or whatever (doesn't make it any less wrong tho)
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