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At this festival, red is more than a hair color — it’s an identity worth celebrating.

Thousands gathered in the city of Tilburg in the Netherlands this week to celebrate redheads and “gingers” at an annual summit, complete with campfires, photo booths, portrait painting, dancing and even an info session on skin cancer.

“Anything that makes you special, whether that is red hair or a quality, like introversion, is something you should not hide, but rather celebrate proudly and exuberantly and make it your unique selling point,” the festival website <a href="https://redheaddays.nl/about" target=_blank>reads</a>, adding that people from more than 80 countries have attended throughout the years.

About 1 to 2 percent of people with European ancestry have red hair, according to a <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6888829/" target=_blank>2019 academic paper</a>, though the number can be higher in areas such as Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and depending on the definition of red hair.

Throughout the years, discussions about <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-28872927" target=_blank>bullying</a>, <a href="https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/student_showcase/64/" target=_blank>discrimination </a>and “<a href="https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2011/11/16/red-hair-genetic-jackpot-or-cultural-stigma/15883879007/" target=_blank>cultural stigma</a>” against those with red hair have repeatedly come to the fore in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom.

In Scotland, for example, a deputy leader for the Labour Party caused a scandal in 2010 when she <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/oct/30/harman-apologises-calling-alexander-ginger-rodent" target="_blank">called </a>a senior coalition minister a “ginger rodent,” an insult for which she later apologized. And a 2005 “South Park” episode titled “Ginger Kids” — in which the main character treats red hair like a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nA54LxibLI" target="_blank">disease </a>— has <a href="https://www.insider.com/ed-sheeran-hair-redhead-south-park-slam-radio-interview-2022-1" target="_blank">routinely been cited </a>as a cultural contagion for bullying redheads and was repeatedly blamed for reported assaults in the United States, the U.K. and Canada, where people participated in a viral movement to hold a “Kick a Ginger Day.”

Britain’s redheads offered free movie tickets to dodge extreme heat

The Redhead Days Festival started informally in 2005, when its director, a painter named Bart Rouwenhorst, put out a newspaper ad for 15 red-haired models and received registration information from 150. Because Rouwenhorst “had trouble saying no,” he asked all the models to gather for a group photo, according to the <a href="https://redheaddays.nl/history" target="_blank">festival’s website</a>. The event then inspired him to start formally organizing the event, which holds <a href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-gathering-of-people-with-natural-red-hair" target="_blank">a 2013 entry</a> in Guinness World Records for the largest gathering of natural redheads, with 1,672 such people in one photo.

With slogans such as, “A face without freckles is like a night without stars,” the festival took place over the weekend, with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RedheadDays/videos/780218617446044" target=_blank>a large crowd</a> of redheads in the same color T-shirt listening to music and bouncing pool floaties above their heads or enjoying beers and barbecued meats on a grassy lawn. Organizers told Reuters that some 5,000 redheads attended.

The theme color of this year’s gathering was hibiscus rose, which, according to organizers, “looks great on redheads.”

Northeastern University, BA in Journalism

Kelly Kasulis Cho is a breaking news reporter and editor at The Washington Post, based in Seoul. Previously, she spent four years covering North and South Korea as a freelance foreign correspondent, and she has also worked at the New York Times and Bloomberg BNA. Follow her on Twitter: @KasulisK.

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