For Example
I neglected to include this story with my previous post, but it's an interesting example of how educators have more power than parents in Japan.
One boy in our school has a rather unorthodox haircut. Basically, it's long in the back (think mullet) and while he has hair all over the top of his head, the hair right down the middle is noticeably longer than the rest, so it has a mohawk-look, a little. Anyway, this unorthodox hairstyle prompted the head of my school to call his parents and ask them to change his hair so that he wouldn't "negatively affect the younger students."
I told my boss that would NEVER fly in America. "First ammendment!" you'd hear. My boss shrugged and said that it's perfectly OK in Japan.
One boy in our school has a rather unorthodox haircut. Basically, it's long in the back (think mullet) and while he has hair all over the top of his head, the hair right down the middle is noticeably longer than the rest, so it has a mohawk-look, a little. Anyway, this unorthodox hairstyle prompted the head of my school to call his parents and ask them to change his hair so that he wouldn't "negatively affect the younger students."
I told my boss that would NEVER fly in America. "First ammendment!" you'd hear. My boss shrugged and said that it's perfectly OK in Japan.
posted by David at 8:17 AM
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Angelina Jolie's kid Maddox has this hair cut, it's the new kiddie-cool trend in hair cutting. Even Beckham's kid has some so cool cut
In my middle school in Taiwan, all guys had to shave their heads (less than 1cm hair all over the head) and all girls had to keep the hair 1cm exact below the earlobes and the same length all around, no perm no dye no thinning no any style and no colored hair clips, so everyone looked like a mushroom head with a big, black hair clip preventing the hair to cover the face. I will not share my middle school pictures with you; ugliest period of my life.
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