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ebikr t1_jdu9nrp wrote

How many hairs is that?

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rapiertwit t1_jduvzom wrote

Only wholesale though. They won't split hairs.

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EntshuldigungOK t1_jdunh92 wrote

Can confirm we are quite hairy

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AgniousPrime t1_jdurp5m wrote

I knew you were a non German posing as a German. If you were German, you'd have spelt Entschuldigung correctly.

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EntshuldigungOK t1_jdx1277 wrote

Stop downvoting him folks - it's actually a fairly cute joke that he cracked.

And if you look at his responses below, he's mellow.

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CulturedClub t1_jdvbrho wrote

How do you think it should be spelled?

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AgniousPrime t1_jdvdow9 wrote

I spelt it correctly in my comment. Anyway, the original commenter said that the username with correct spelling was taken.

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lesterburnhamm66 t1_jdv0nv6 wrote

USA!

United States imports most of its Human hair from India, Indonesia and China and is the largest importer of Human hair in the World. The top 3 importers of Human hair are United States with 90,205 shipments followed by China with 65,332 and Myanmar at the 3rd spot with 10,190 shipments.

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Reddit_Survivor9 t1_jdyvpuq wrote

Is it because most of you are bald?

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Errasir t1_jdywnn8 wrote

I think there's a huge market for women's wigs. A lot of african american women use wigs for straight hair because their natural hair is curly.

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jeetendraprasad t1_jdx00fc wrote

And probably 80pc of India's source would be Tirupati Balaji temple where people go to shave their heads for respect of God Balaji and the fulfillment of their wishes.

Indians are highly religious.

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part_of_me t1_jdxm44v wrote

the entire sub makes me wonder what they teach in schools.

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Scruffy42 t1_jdvi59t wrote

Also skeletons with perfect teeth.

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Wicked_Googly t1_jdx9xd4 wrote

I've been to the Sri Venkateswara Swami Vaari Temple, where they apparently "harvest" 2,000lbs of hair a day. Interesting place. Lotta bald people walking around. They kept calling out to me to donate my hair, but they were laughing and just messing with me.

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ChayLo357 t1_jdyypaa wrote

Chris Rock touches on this in his 2009 documentary “Good Hair,” which covers the history and perception of hair for Black women in the United States

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Invurse5 t1_jdzdee8 wrote

They sell them by the strand.

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supercyberlurker t1_jdwim8s wrote

It's kind of exploitation though. Basically religion has setup a system to harvest peoples hair and then sell it for their own profit.

> Once their wishes are realized, all of the family members come back to the temple and shave their heads to thank the god, Sreeja explained. Primary dealers then buy women's hair from these temples at a discount and sell it to industrialists like Sreeja, who then process it and export the extensions overseas.

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Eudaemon1 t1_jdwo9lj wrote

>Basically religion

Many Big temples are really business places . They will try to profit from everything , that being said shaving hair at temples and such is a very common way to thank the deity , it's kind of like " I will do this if my wish is fulfilled" or a "mannat" if you will , and a mannat comes in different forms .

Also this buying of hair doesn't exist only in temples . For example back in my uncle's village there are people who will buy hair or barter an amount of hair for an utensil or such .

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supercyberlurker t1_jdwsf2u wrote

Yeah, I respect the people giving their hair as a way to thank the deity. I think that part is actually pretty cool, like giving of yourself as a sacrifice is really probably the most noble sacrifice to do.

It's the part where the temples take that hair and it becomes commerce where it starts to feel sketchy.

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Eudaemon1 t1_jdwttey wrote

>It's the part where the temples take that hair and it becomes commerce

That's why I said , many big temples will try to profit from literally EVERYTHING , because sadly that's what many of them have become

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supercyberlurker t1_jdwub7s wrote

I saw this movie "OMG – Oh My God!" which was like a Bollywood takedown of the fake gurus in India. It also has an interest plot in that the main character doesn't believe in Shiva, but the movie literally has Shiva there interacting with him.

It goes into things like the wasted milk, money/idol industry.. but it does also make some exceptions where real charity is done, like it doesn't attack the kitchens that do things like langar.

As an American I can't evaluate the truth of it, but it was interesting.

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Eudaemon1 t1_jdwwsx3 wrote

Then let me tell you a story , usually several big temples have some fixed men in the pujari attire who try to take money from you by various means , so when I was a kid my mom visited one such temple , a pujari literally blackmailed her into giving him money , saying that bad things will happen to me if she didn't give him money , so yeah . Very many places have these crap while others focus on charity for example the Ram Krishna Mission , or like the Dakshineswar temple is such a nice peaceful place which exists for worshipping without any sort of con artists in its vicinity .

Also you should watch PK . It really does question several things about the gurus and stuff while . The movie is kinda an attempt to distinguish between religion itself and the con artists of religion all under a comedic film

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[deleted] t1_jdywtxp wrote

People have been shaving their head in that temple for centuries much before all the export.

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setintall3 t1_jebdtce wrote

The practice of giving hair at the temple predates American racism forcing minorities to import hair from India to look ‘acceptable’

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KoreaMasterFighter t1_jdv61fk wrote

India is basically the cheapest source of Caucasian hair. South East Asia have Asian hair and Africa has no hair.

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