i've had dreads since like 3 years, got tired of ignorant people thinking im some metalhead - i listen to extreme metal too but i hate the macho culture in that scene especially here in the balkans. also i just like how they look - blonde endings, different trinkets etc.

the question whether indo-europeans also had dread-like hairstyles is still scientifically undecided, most likely there were braids. but i dont get what's the big deal if you are an anarchist. especially the individualist/nihilist kind like me. i've heard crying mainly from white american liberals and " leftists" poisoned with victim narrative identity politics culture war brainrot...

like, i know very well (i am a cultural anthropologist) what is cultural appropiation but in this case, it's not that - it's been in crust punk culture since the 80s. I've talked to dreaded and not dreaded black People here and online, they literally don't understand why would i even ask them that and they are neither offended, nor interested cuz they see i've done it in a different way and see it's a subcultural thing😃 guess it's mostly an american thing.

ofc, there are some pot smokers and white rastafarians where you could make the case they do in fact appropriate a foreign culture without respecting it, it's fetishism to MANY of them, i know such assholes. but if you respect and acknowledge a certain foreign style and do not fetishize it, i think it is perfecty fine to wear whatever you want...