![]() In the Chinese historical document Kang mu, the Kipchak people are described as red haired and blue-eyed. The Kipchak people were a Turkic ethnic group from Central Asia who served in the Golden Horde military forces after being conquered by the Mongols. A phenotype study of Hmong People show they are sometimes born with red hair. According to F.M Savina of the Paris Foreign Missionary Society, the appearance of the Miao was pale yellow in their skin complexion, almost white, their hair color often being light or dark brown, sometimes even red or corn-silk blond, and a few of them even have pale blue eyes. The ethnic Miao people of China are recorded with red hair. In the Book of Wei, Chinese author Wei Shou notes that Liu Yuan was over 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and had red strands of hair in his long beard. In Chinese sources, ancient Kyrgyz people were described as fair-skinned, green- or blue-eyed and red-haired people with a mixture of European and East Asian features. ![]() Mustafa Amini, Australian footballer of Afghan and Nicaraguan descentĪncient human remains described as having red or auburn hair have been discovered in various parts of Asia, including the Tarim mummies of Xinjiang, China. Red hair frequency is especially significant among the Riffians from Morocco and Kabyles from Algeria, respectively. The Berber populations of Morocco and northern Algeria have occasional redheads. In European culture, before the 20th century, red hair was often seen as a stereotypically Jewish trait: during the Spanish Inquisition, all those with red hair were identified as Jewish. In Italy, red hair was associated with Italian Jews, and Judas was traditionally depicted as red-haired in Italian and Spanish art. In Sardinia, red hair is found at a frequency of 0.24% of the population. In Italy, red hair is found at a frequency of 0.57% of the total population, without variation in frequency across the different regions of the country. The stereotype that red hair is Jewish remains in parts of Eastern Europe and Russia. Other studies have found that 3.69% of Jewish women overall were found to have red hair, but around 10.9% of all Jewish men have red beards. In 1903, 5.6% of Polish Jews had red hair. Red hair is also found amongst the Ashkenazi Jewish populations. The Volga region still has one of the highest percentages of red-headed people. ![]() In the late 18th century, ethnographers considered the Udmurt people of the Volga Region in Russia to be "the most red-headed men in the world". Later by the 10th century, Southern Slavic populations would have darker hair and skin tone, as the Slavs assimilated the indigenous inhabitants of the Balkans, including Greek and Illyrian peoples. Eastern Europeīyzantine writers, Jordanes and Procopius described the early Slavic peoples as having ruddy hair and skin tone. A 1956 study of hair colour among British Army recruits also found high levels of red hair in Wales and in the Scottish border counties of England. In 1907, the largest ever study of hair colour in Scotland, which analysed over 500,000 people, found the percentage of Scots with red hair to be 5.3%. In Scotland, around 6% of the population has red hair, with the highest concentration of red head carriers in the world found in Edinburgh, making it the red head capital of the world. Great Britain also has a high percentage of people with red hair. Ireland has the highest number of red-haired people per capita in the world, with the percentage of those with red hair at around 10%. Red hair is most commonly found at the northern and western fringes of Europe it is centred around populations in the British Isles and is particularly associated with the Celtic nations. ![]() Geographic distribution Modern Northern and Northwestern Europe The term "redhead" has been in use since at least 1510. Ĭultural reactions to red hair have been varied. Characterized by high levels of the reddish pigment pheomelanin and relatively low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin, it is associated with fair skin color, lighter eye color, freckles, and sensitivity to ultraviolet light. Red hair varies in hue from a deep burgundy or bright copper, or auburn, to burnt orange or red-orange to strawberry blond. It is most common in individuals homozygous for a recessive allele on chromosome 16 that produces an altered version of the MC1R protein. Red hair, also known as orange hair or ginger hair, is a human hair color found in 1–2% of the world population, appearing with greater frequency (2–6%) among people of Northern or Northwestern European ancestry and lesser frequency in other populations. ![]()
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