Also, in thinking about headlice, I'm reminded of basically the same story again: head-lice are brought into classrooms by dirty brown people/dirty immigrants/dirty poor people, and then because they're hugely contagious they spread to all the other innocent children. Which is one of those stories that relies on the fact that people have those stereotypes, because otherwise people might ask "okay, but if it's hugely contagious, then couldn't [Person X] have gotten it at daycare?" And American public health agencies have been running this "no seriously, lice prefer clean hair to dirty hair" campaign for years, but nobody believes them.
Truefact: the pharmacay I shopped in as a kid put white-people shampoo on the front shelves, top to bottom, and then hair dye on the next shelves, and then at the end of the aisle there was a section with relaxers and shampoo for kinky hair and lice shampoo.
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Date: 2010-05-08 01:23 pm (UTC)Truefact: the pharmacay I shopped in as a kid put white-people shampoo on the front shelves, top to bottom, and then hair dye on the next shelves, and then at the end of the aisle there was a section with relaxers and shampoo for kinky hair and lice shampoo.