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You are fixated with red hair
Not as fixated as the ancients who met Thracians!
"Indeed, the ancient Greeks were wary of their Thracian neighbours (the gladiator Spartacus amongst them) and were reluctant to rile them because of their red hair, combative nature and willingness to embroil themselves in a good fight. Depictions on Athenian pottery of glorious battles show the Greeks fighting the mythological Thracian King Rhesus with wild red hair and a pointy beard. The earliest known description of the Thracians’ hair colour comes from the Greek poet Xenophanes in 500 BC who claimed:
“Men make their Gods in their own image… those of the Thracians have blue eyes and red hair”.
Indeed, surviving Thracian tombs in Ostrusha Mound, Bulgaria, have mosaic images of red-haired ancestors and are adorned with the word “Rufus”, the Latin word for red-haired."
Maybe Romans had a fetish for redheads - thats why they tried to settle in britain and ended up losing track of their empire!