• duffman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Kind of a nice message but I don’t like that this reinforces expectations that going to a barber shop run by a different race is “strange”.

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      1 year ago

      Black barbershop are different because black people generally have tight curly hair, which requires different skills and techniques to cut than straight hair.

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      1 year ago

      Americans still feel it’s weird, while I grew up with almost only Turkish barbershops in the Netherlands and here it’s mostly Indians. The only barbershop I went to in the US was a black barbershop and it was fully worth it. Biggest difference is that they take the time for you, you can have a nice chat etc. Definitely a lot more expensive than in Europe though.

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        1 year ago

        Nowadays I am bald and don’t go to any barber shop. But in my younger days I felt that I got better results at a barber who has a lot of customers with similar hair as mine. I am turkish (living in Germany), but (used to) have thin blond hair. So, while I also went to turkish barbers, I chose those who have many German customers.

        Tl,dr: This isn’t necessarily based in rasism imo.