Why Do You Think that Untrue Myths About Black Hair Persist?

CurlyMoo said:

But don't many Hispanics have a very high protein diet?

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I thought every nationality ate a lot protein, the issue is the fruit and vegetables, that's why as a whole the USA has a obese problem so. I can't really say that's it or suspect that's it

Black hispanics are not much different than black Americans...if one hispanic girl hair grew like weed, then it's just her particular genes. Hispanic hair isn't a hair category so...it just depends on the composition of the three categories which are Asian, African and Caucasian.

I'm hispanic (Dominican Rep) and throughout my family "hair type" is a toss up. No one has 100% straight hair, so aside from type 1 all other types (2-4) are fairly well covered. White hispanics (from central/south america and such) have more Caucasian hair than those from the islands, I find.

I think most Black hair myths persist because most black women think that their/our hair is difficult so 1) they don't want to deal with it 2) they don't think it's worth trying to figure out. Although my hair was mediocre at best most of the time, I knew that it had the potential to look gawd . So it was worth trying to make better.

In reference to other groups having hair that grows faster/longer, I didn't really buy into it until I spent 4 years in New Mexico . Uh, I have never ever seen a group of people consistently have super long hair until I was exposed to American Indians. My friend had gorgeous, blunt HL hair and all she did was wash it a couple of times a week and flatiron it to "make it shinier". Another friend's dad was Native, and he was 70 with a thick, butt length braid. Also there were Native girls in my classes and on campus, and all of them had crazy long hair that they wore in gigantic buns . Off campus I would see homeless men and women with BSL and longer hair . As a group of people they eat horribly! Most are overweight or obese, and they have a list of health issues .

Diet helps your body express whatever genes you inherited. The genes are what matter. If your people as a whole carry genes to give you steel strands and 0.85 inches a month, then you're probably going to have a easier time growing and retaining length whether you eat clean or McDonald's.

Our hair is so complex and intriguing.

I suspect that we could uncover many truths about hair--including that of other races--by studying Afro-textured hair.

Look how much scientists have already learned about skin (ie--vitamin D, melanin, etc) from us!

we still have much shame about our hair texture and believe chemicals and heat are the only way.
we refuse to improve our hair care practices and choose just make excuses. we continue to trust stylists who learn little to nothing about afro-textured hair to ruin it and assume any type of hair length/ thickness alludes to being mixed.

we keep getting fatter and having more emotional and health issues in this country and these issues are being expressed all over the body including with the hair. i see more male and female pattern baldness than i ever saw growing up and I'm seeing it happen with ppl that are much younger and its diet/hair maintanence.

even with better products, youtube/blogs on hair care & wellness, ppl are still lazy about eating or caring for themselves better....its easier to make excuses, buy material objects and watch reality tv shows.

i also think the scars of slavery, reconstruction, segregation, & racism/white supremacy still run deep as well........ we are bombarded everyday via the media and music that white or multi-racial is better/better looking, more desirable, or prettier as is straight, long hair. also that white is good & dark is evil which is also bogus.

Because the majority of people as a whole are close-minded and refuse to listen to anything that goes against what has been embedded in their brain since the beginning of time. The whole adage 'you can lead a horse to water'...