Hair

I have always been told that I have beautiful hair and it makes me wonder, what makes hair beautiful. When watching the clip in class where the professor was talking about how white characteristics of hair are desired i agreed, but it made me think about how he was passing judgement as well on what is considered "white hair." Within the category of white people's hair there is curly wavy thick thin straight and other different types of textures. I am fortunate to have nice thick hair that as he says people can "run fingers through"but my cousin on the other hand is too is white has trouble with that, he hair is looked at as frizzy or very tightly curled thick hair. She used to get brushes stuck in it, but he still talks about "white hair" as a whole which seems to deminish his point a little. I just thought that for such an intellegent man who looks at race very seriously and deeply he should have clued in or made some points about how this was a steriotype and not all white people have the same or favorable hair. I just thought it was interesting because he seemed to talk about his points in ways where if the situation was flipped he would have seen it differently and thought about it as a steriotype or categorizing of a group.