“Nappy hair’’ nghĩa là gì?

“Nappy hair’’ = mái tóc có bọt -> nghĩa (xúc phạm) là chỉ mái tóc của người da đen, nhất là phụ nữ.

Ví dụ

This is not just clever rhyming. Mooney is pointing to the fact that nappy hair is inevitably associated with something that is out of reach for “white people”. When you sport your natural hair, you are free; your hair is wild; you have a new “hairstyle” everyday; you are radiant; you are regal. These are out of reach for most people.

On Nov. 28, the Spanish newspaper La Tribuna de Albacete published a comic depicting the omicron variants as cartoon characters with brown skin and nappy hair, packed in a boat marked with a South African flag and approaching land with a European Union flag waving on its shores. On the same day, the German newspaper Die Rheinpfalz published a front-page story with the headline "The virus from Africa is with us," accompanied by a photo of two Black Africans. And on Dec. 2, a Bangkok Post headline read, "Government hunts for African visitors."

I internalized that being loud with nappy hair and sagging pants is a bad representation of myself and my community. So I wear my pants around my waist and wear glasses in order to look more sophisticated. I talk in standard English and don’t use slang often. I do these things to decrease the racism directed at me because I don’t want to be negatively judged or stereotyped by others, especially white or other non-Black people. Non-Black people are often in a position of power over me as a student or employee.

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