TILBURG, The Netherlands — Thousands of people gathered in the Netherlands this weekend to celebrate their red hair at the annual Redhead Days Festival in the southern town of Tilburg. Scottish Liam Hunter, 30, told Reuters attending the three-day festival made him feel better about himself. Like many redheads Hunter said he has experienced bullying over his unusual hair colour....
TILBURG, The Netherlands — Thousands of people gathered in the Netherlands this weekend to celebrate their red hair at the annual Redhead Days Festival in the southern town of Tilburg.
"I don't feel alone anymore, I feel together, a part of something," he said, looking out over the festival grounds, "being here I'm completed". Redheads make up between one and two percent of the world’s population, with a higher frequency of between two and six percent in people with Northern or Northwestern European ancestry.
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